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
The Rolling Stones and the beads and bells. Who knows where these things come from, but I guess [the music] was a reaction to what we'd done in our time off and also that severe dose of reality. A spell in prison ... will certainly give you room for thought ... I was fucking pissed with being busted. So it was, 'Right we'll go and strip this thing down.' There's a lot of anger in the music from that period. "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus", which originally began as an idea about "the new shape of the rock-and-roll concert tour", was