Edit for headphones, January 2022. An instrumental is not everybody's cup of tea, I guess, but always interesting to hear clearly what is going on in the background, isn't it? Nicky Hopkins * sure did a great job on the piano.
The official release of this song has: mellotron, backing vocals: Brian Jones. Percussion: Brian Jones & Mick Jagger. Lead & backing vocals: Mick Jagger. Piano: Nicky Hopkins. Guitar & backing vocals: Keith Richards. Bass & backing vocals: Bill Wyman. Drums: Charlie Watts. Strings: arranged by John Paul Jones (who was doing session work two years before he joined Led Zeppelin). Nicky Hopkins played piano on this song. Nicky Hopkins, along with Ian Stewart and Billy Preston, played on Stones albums from "Between The Buttons" in 1967 until "Black And Blue" in 1976. Billy Preston usually played on the more gospel-sounding songs where an organ was required; Ian Stewart played boogie-woogie on the fast songs, and Nicky Hopkins played on the ballads.
Official release was recorded May 18, 1967. "She's a Rainbow" was released as a single in December 1967. Charts: Holland no.2 (it was in the Dutch charts for 16 weeks), Switzerland no.3, Austria no.8, Australia no.9, Canada no.9, France no.10, Belgium no.13, Spain no.19, US no.25. It took fourty years before it charted no.25 in Denmark, in 2007. Didn't chart in the UK!
This was one of the first songs The Rolling Stones produced without manager Andrew Loog Oldham. Apple used this in 1999 commercials for their colorful iMac computers. Sony used the song in an advert for Bravia color tv's.
* Nicky Hopkins died on 6 September 1994, at the age of 50, in Nashville, Tennessee, from complications resulting from intestinal surgery related to his lifelong battle with Crohn's disease. At the time of his death he was working on his autobiography with Ray Coleman.
SHE'S A RAINBOW
(Jagger/Richards)
she comes in colors everywhere
she combs her hair, she's like a rainbow
coming colors in the air
mm, everywhere, she comes in colors
she comes in colors everywhere
she combs her hair, she's like a rainbow
coming colors in the air, oh, everywhere
she comes in colors
have you seen her dressed in blue
see the sky in front of you
and her face is like a sail
speck of white so fair and pale
have you seen a lady fairer
she comes in colors everywhere
she combs her hair, she's like a rainbow
coming colors in the air, mm everywhere
she comes in colors
have you seen her all in gold
like a queen in days of old
she shoots colors all around
like a sunset going down
have you seen a lady fairer
she comes in colors everywhere
she combs her hair, she's like a rainbow
coming colors in the air, oh everywhere
she comes in colors
she's like a rainbow
coming colors in the air
oh everywhere
she comes in colours
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