charts in 1966 and has remained a staple on the Stones set to this day. Though the song was written by Richards and Jagger with most of the musical arrangements set by Jones, a slanted publishing deal in 1965 led to the band signing over the rights to the track, and all the songs they wrote through 1969 to the band’s former manager Allen Klein. “It’s the first time we wrote the whole record and finally laid to rest the ghost of having to do these very nice and interesting, no doubt, but still cover versions of old R&B songs, which we didn’t really feel we were doing justice, to be perfectly honest, particularly because we didn’t have the maturity. “That was a big landmark record for me,” said Mick Jagger of Aftermath. We tried a guitar but you can’t bend it enough.” To get the right sound on ‘Paint It Black’ we found the sitar fitted perfectly. “We had the sitars, we thought we’d try them out in the studio. “They make sitars and all sorts of Indian stuff,” said Richards. The sitar was most likely a discovery during the band’s break in the South Pacific around a tour in Australia. Adding to their musical experiments, guitarist Brian Jones first introduces the sitar into the mix-and marked the first time the Stones featured the instrument in their music-and would often play the wooden instrument, sat cross-legged, during television appearances.
Inspired by more Indian and Mid-Eastern sounds, the song was written while the band was in Fiji for three days.
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