Out of Time (The Rolling Stones song) recording appeared in the US on 1967’s "Flowers", and later on 1972’s "More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)" and 2012’s "GRRR!" super deluxe edition. The song also appeared on the Stones' 1975 ABKCO album "Metamorphosis", which was created under the direction of former Stones manager Allen Klein and released on his ABKCO Records label. (Klein owned the rights to the pre-1971 Rolling Stones catalog.). This version was, in fact, the backing track from Chris Farlowe's version, but with a Mick Jagger lead vocal, recorded in London in April 1966 as a demo for Farlowe. The demo version was
The Shadow Out of Time purpose was to study the history of various times and places, and they have amassed a "library city" that is filled with the past and future history of multiple races, including humans. Ultimately the Yithians use their ability to escape the destruction of their planet in another galaxy by switching bodies with a race of cone-shaped plant beings who lived 250 million years ago on Earth. The cone-shaped entities (subsequently also known as the Great Race of Yith) lived in their vast library city in what would later become Australia's Great Sandy Desert (). The story is told through the