You Can't Always Get What You Want

"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Single by the Rolling Stones
from the album Let It Bleed
A-side"Honky Tonk Women"
Released
  • 4 July 1969 (1969-07-04) (single version)
  • December 1969 (extended album version)
Recorded16–17 November 1968
StudioOlympic, London
Genre
Length
  • 5:00 (single)[2]
  • 7:28 (album)[3]
Label
Songwriter(s)Jagger–Richards
Producer(s)Jimmy Miller
Rolling Stones UK singles chronology
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"
(1968)
"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
(1969)
"Brown Sugar"
(1971)
Rolling Stones US singles chronology
"Street Fighting Man"
(1968)
"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
(1969)
"Brown Sugar"
(1971)
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"You Can't Always Get What You Want" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones on their 1969 album Let It Bleed. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was named as the 100th greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in its 2004 list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" before dropping a place the following year.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference allmusic was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ The original London Records single label lists "Time: 5:00"
  3. ^ The original London Records Let It Bleed inner sleeve lists "7:28"

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