Edit 3 for headphones. Over a hundred and thirty photos of the one this song is about....
Mellotron, guitar, 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. Hopkins, along with Ian Stewart and Billy Preston, played on Stones albums from "Between The Buttons" in 1967 until "Black And Blue" in 1976. Preston usually played on the more gospel-sounding songs where an organ was required; Stewart played boogie-woogie on the fast songs, and Hopkins played on the ballads.
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, yeah, Denmark's first sign of backwardness...* 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.
When you love someone you write love songs to & about her, especially someone as spectacularly beautiful as Marianne. This song is about Marianne Faithfull. Alas, the song lasted longer than their love... I have more than two thousand photos of Marianne and selected these one, for some reason I just couldn't stand any photo with Jagger on it, I hate his attitude...
* Denmark is the first European country that intensifies the blocking of videos on YouTube, obediently following the latest European rules on "piracy". Well, if I'm a pirate, then Yankee Doodle was an islamic terrorist. (Dozens and dozens and dozens of my videos are already blocked in Denmark.)
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
