The Last Time (The Rolling Stones song) canon, it was regularly performed in concert during the band's 1965, 1966 and 1967 tours. It was left off their concert set lists until 1997–98, when it reappeared on the Bridges to Babylon Tour. It later appeared on some of the band's set lists in 2012–13 on the 50 & Counting tour. In 1965, Andrew Oldham Orchestra recorded the song for the album "The Rolling Stones Songbook". The recording and its distinctive passage for strings was written and arranged by David Whitaker. In 1997, former Rolling Stones business manager Allen Klein, whose company ABKCO Records owns the rights to all
Aftermath (The Rolling Stones album) identifying "Aftermath" as the album that marked "the entry of these erstwhile blues traditionalists into the album-rock pantheon alongside Dylan and the Beatles, with its canny use of sitar, marimba, and dulcimer". On its top 10 Rolling Stones albums list, "NME" listed "Aftermath" at number 6, while stating that "1966’s ‘Aftermath’ saw the Stones at once rejecting and redefining rock’n’roll lore. The first all-originals Stones album, it's so classic-packed their reputation as sub-Beatles hopefuls never recovered." Reviewing the American version for AllMusic, Ritchie Unterberger said the album "did much to define the group as the bad boys of rock &