She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming colors in the air
Oh, 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 the 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
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 the 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 colors
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active across seven decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the rock era. In the early 1960s, the band pioneered the gritty, rhythmically driven sound that came to define hard rock. Their first stable line-up consisted of vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts. During their early years, Jones was the primary leader of the band. After Andrew Loog Oldham became the group's manager in 1963, he encouraged them to write their own songs. The Jagger–Richards partnership became the band's primary songwriting and creative force.
Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the Rolling Stones started out playing covers and were at the forefront of the British Invasion in 1964, becoming identified with the youthful counterculture of the 1960s. They then found greater success with their own material, as "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", "Get Off of My Cloud" (both 1965), and "Paint It Black" (1966) became international number-one hits. Aftermath (1966), their first entirely original album, is often considered to be the most important of their early albums. In 1967, they had the double-sided hit "Ruby Tuesday"/"Let's Spend the Night Together" and experimented with psychedelic rock on Their Satanic Majesties Request. By the end of the 1960s, they had returned to their rhythm and blues-based rock sound, with hit singles "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1968) and "Honky Tonk Women" (1969), and albums Beggars Banquet (1968), featuring "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man", and Let It Bleed (1969), featuring "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and "Gimme Shelter".
Jones left the band shortly before his death in 1969, having been replaced by guitarist Mick Taylor. That year they were first introduced on stage as "the greatest rock and roll band in the world". Sticky Fingers (1971), which yielded "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses" and included the first usage of their tongue and lips logo, was their first of eight consecutive number-one studio albums in the US. It was followed by Exile on Main St. (1972), featuring "Tumbling Dice" and "Happy", and Goats Head Soup (1973), featuring "Angie". Taylor left the band at the end of 1974, and was replaced by Ronnie Wood. The band released Some Girls in 1978, featuring "Miss You", and Tattoo You in 1981, featuring "Start Me Up". Steel Wheels (1989) was widely considered a comeback album and was followed by Voodoo Lounge (1994). Both releases were promoted by large stadium and arena tours, as the Stones continued to be a huge concert attraction; by 2007, they had recorded the all-time highest-grossing concert tour three times, and they were the highest-earning live act of 2021. Following Wyman's departure in 1993, the band continued as a four-piece core, with Darryl Jones becoming their regular bassist, and then as a three-piece core following Watts' death in 2021, with Steve Jordan becoming their regular drummer. Hackney Diamonds, the band's first new album of original material in 18 years, was released in October 2023, becoming their fourteenth UK number-one album.
The Rolling Stones' estimated record sales of more than 250 million make them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. They have won three Grammy Awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. Billboard and Rolling Stone have ranked them as one of the greatest artists of all time.
There are books to read if facts are wanted (Beatles vs. Stones).
On the other hand artists in the sixties were paying close attention to what other artists were doing and regardless if you're more Beatles, Stones, or neutral, thinking there's no similarity between these two album covers is a stretch too far for me ("No no no, the Stones are sitting down!" - *eyeroll*). Of course that may well have had more to do with managers and marketers than the artists themselves, eh?
Released 26 May 1967
Released 8 December 1967
For myself, the idea that there is some sort of "side" to pick just seems... pointless, and juvenile, and at worst: destructive. I imagine these two groups did have some kind of artistic effect on each other but for me it's not obvious in their music.
P.S. See Who's Who On The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Album Cover. In case it’s not clear, I believe each of these albums' artworks should be judged separately from their music.
Sincerely,
the Grammar Nazi side of my personality
Yup. Love some of the earlier stuff but much of the Stones output leaves me cold.
Jagger also projected this "I'm here to make money and get gloriously fucked." vibe that always left me a tad cold.
Yeah!, nobody really wants money and sex. What was he thinking?
I wouldn't. The Stones tried a little to hard to copy or emulate what the Beatles did in 67. Not a bad album, but clearly an attempted rip. Even Jagger and Richards acknowledge that.
I would.
It's what was happening in 1967 London.
Both bands were basically making the same scene, and had many of the same associates, friends, influences, women, parties, dealers, photographers, studios . .
You'd have to elaborate on how the Stones 'tried a little too hard to copy the Beatles' if you expect credibility when suggesting they 'ripped off' anyone.
The Beatles would have done well to follow the STONES' lead on many things, including exposure (touring), instead of destroying each other in the studio (see:yoko ono). The best performance of their short career was on the roof of a building for gawds sake.
'SHE'S A RAINBOW' had nothing at all to do with the four fab mop tops - THAT'S what Mick and Keith would acknowledge.
Sincerely,
the Grammar Nazi side of my personality
The Grammar is correct...The Spelling is in question... Just saying....
And I'm also pretty sure that he started this set with Talk Talk's The Rainbow, too...
I fink this is a grate song.
Magestic, even.
The naked piano line, up an octave, the vibrato bit, the guitars bashing down, and then Mick Jagger's intent vocal, the drums, the strings .. wow. Takes me right back to the late 60's.
Where the hell else would I hear this but on RP? Subscriber for life, baby.
There are books to read if facts are wanted (Beatles vs. Stones).
On the other hand artists in the sixties were paying close attention to what other artists were doing and regardless if you're more Beatles, Stones, or neutral, thinking there's no similarity between these two album covers is a stretch too far for me ("No no no, the Stones are sitting down!" - *eyeroll*). Of course that may well have had more to do with managers and marketers than the artists themselves, eh?
Released 26 May 1967
Released 8 December 1967
For myself, the idea that there is some sort of "side" to pick just seems... pointless, and juvenile, and at worst: destructive. I imagine these two groups did have some kind of artistic effect on each other but for me it's not obvious in their music.
P.S. See Who’s Who On The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ Album Cover. In case it’s not clear, I believe each of these albums’ artworks should be judged separately from their music.
P.P.S. There’s a callout to the Stones in the Sgt. Pepper’s cover art.
I agree this rivalry is silly, they're both great bands and there's no reason to compare except they were both part of the British invasion. But it was the Stones that consciously tried to distinguish themselves from the Beatles by being the "bad boys" to the Fab Four's squeakier image. I will say this though...the Beatles could do the Stones, but the Stones couldn't really do the Beatles. Where's the Stones' "Tomorrow Never Knows" or "I Am the Egg Man"?? I like the Stones, but I love the Beatles.
P.S. Screw the comparisons between the Stones and the Beatles. They were entirely different bands with an entirely different raison d'être. Vive la différence!
The Grammar is correct...The Spelling is in question... Just saying....
no capital G in grammar
The naked piano line, up an octave, the vibrato bit, the guitars bashing down, and then Mick Jagger's intent vocal, the drums, the strings .. wow. Takes me right back to the late 60's.
Where the hell else would I hear this but on RP? Subscriber for life, baby.
Don't forget the "support RP" dues...
Jimi’s “Bold as Love” isn’t in the RP library, so I’m using this Stones’ “Rainbow Song” as a flimsy excuse to tell one of my favorite high school stories.
A friend of mine is a huge Hendrix fan. When “Bold as Love” fist came out, he was going to a Catholic high school, and was assigned by his teacher (a Nun) to write a poem. He figured that she wouldn’t have heard any Hendrix songs, and decided to submit the lyrics of “Bold as Love”. To the Nun’s credit, she gave him an A+.