| Oldham: After an eleven-hour run, we'd finished "The Last Time." I was so thrilled and beside myself with the result, the audio layers were just so total, hypnotic and forever, that I called up Phil Spector and asked him to come to the studio to listen to what we'd done. Everybody had really come through; this was the first Rolling Stones totality. Brian and Keith set up a layer of guitars that allowed Mick and Keith to just sit in the sing of it. I knew we finally had that big American hit; I just wanted Phil to tell me how big. Firty-five minutes later, Phil hobbled in off Sunset Strip in his Chelsea boots to listen to our forty-five. We put up "The Last Time." Naturally, the little big man asked to hear it much louder. As the fade neverended, Phil chuckled, shook his head, and sighed. "Number Ten, guys, number ten," he said. He'd be right. (Oldham 2003, 180) |
