Sessions for ‘Aftermath’ took place at RCA Studios in Hollywood in days off between Australian and US tours. Andrew continues: “It was a year when the Beatles were high but still hopeful, Ray Davies captured the essentially superficial, Pete Townshend got fed up on your behalf and the Stones took you home and took your clothes off.”
From the nonchalant to blues or dance based the seamy to the soppy ballad, Mick and Keith had nailed writing about their manor and the folks who live in it.” As such, the band excelled by elaborating their dangerous and exciting blues roots through the medium of pop and rock, thus arousing the sexual awakenings of teenagers everywhere. Speaking to Clash, Andrew Loog Oldham says of the band at that time: “You can see confidence in the broad range of styles. Their strutting manifesto was to challenge the older generation while imperiously indulging in leering bravado. The development in pop in 1966 was so competitive that the Stones had to find their own niche in which to excel. But it was with their landmark 1966 album that the band could finally lay to rest their musical tributes and boast that every cut was their own. Hits such as ‘Satisfaction’, ‘The Last Time’ and ‘Get Off My Cloud’ demonstrated the rapidly maturing savvy of Mick and Keith as capable pop authors while staying true to their blues roots. By 1965, the Stones could now pad out their albums with their own compositions when the covers ran dry. Their progression as authors reflected the boom in inventiveness that was happening throughout the arts in the mid-Sixties, especially pop music, where barriers were pushed on a daily basis. The result ‘As Tears Go By’, although a tad saccharine for the Stones’ palates, was successful in the hands of Marianne Faithful and started the ball (or stones) rolling the in blossoming creative partnership of Jagger/Richards. Aware that there were only so many obscure songs his band could cover, and knowing that Lennon and McCartney had found a lucrative business in song writing, Oldham took it upon himself for the good of his charges to lock Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in their kitchen until they came up with their own song. Marketed as the bad boy counterparts to The Beatles, their music - R&B and blues covers - played second fiddle to their image, their overt sexuality and their headline grabbing conduct, all mostly cooked up by manager and press manipulator Andrew Loog Oldham. Up until the release of ‘Aftermath’, the Rolling Stones were a phenomenon. Spotlighting favourite albums from years gone by, Clash celebrates the 40th anniversary of The Rolling Stones’ first step into maturity with their classic ‘Aftermath'.
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