Out of Time (The Rolling Stones song) orchestration and backing vocals from Chris Farlowe's cover version (plus a new female backing vocal) was released on the 1975 rarities album "Metamorphosis" and as a single. The song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Mick Jagger produced the hit single version by Chris Farlowe. The Rolling Stones released three versions of "Out of Time". The first, recorded by the band in Los Angeles in March 1966, appeared on the UK version of 1966's "Aftermath" and featured a marimba part played by Brian Jones. In this format "Out of Time" was 5:37 long. A shorter version of this
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