This is the twentieth song in the Play It Again Mayhem series, which began in 2020. Check out the previous entries along with this new one in the Play It Again Mayhem Spotify Playlist click here to take a listen! It has only been just over 2 weeks since the last entry, so do you fancy a quick one while she’s away? OK, that was a big tease, this post does not feature the Who! Once again it is back to the 70s though, to 1978. This means that so far, 15 of the 20 songs are from the 1970s. This time it is the turn of the Rolling Stones. This is the first non-single track to make the Mayhem Play It Again Playlist, although it was a B-Side. It appeared on the flip side of the Stones’ huge 1978 disco-funk-styled smash “Miss You”. It is called “Far Away Eyes” and like “Miss You” appears on the band’s 1978 album ‘Some Girls’. It is a delightful country pastiche or homage from the Stones. Jagger’s vocals are very much in a great country style and are split between spoken and sung. It is a lazy, lolloping rhythm. Ronnie Wood plays a fabulous slide guitar on it. This, maybe surprisingly, is my favourite ever Rolling Stones song. What is yours?
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