• Writers: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
• Producer: Andrew Loog Oldham
• Recorded: January/February 1965 at RCA Studios in Hollywood, California
• Released: March 1965
• Players:
  Mick Jagger — vocals
  Keith Richards — guitar, vocals
  Brian Jones — guitar, vocals
  Bill Wyman — bass
  Charlie Watts — drums
  Ian Stewart — organ
• Album: Out Of Our Heads (London, 1965)
• Also On:
  Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass) (London, 1966)
  Got Live If You Want It! (London, 1966)
  More Hot Rocks (London, 1972)
  Singles Collection: The London Years (ABKCO, 1989)
  No Security (Virgin, 1998)
  40 Licks (Virgin, 2002)
• “The Last Time” was the first single A-side written for the Rolling Stones by frontman Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards.
• In his memoir Stone Alone, bassist Bill Wyman recalled that Jagger and Richards wrote the song at their flat in the Hampstead section of London: “They thought the title was weak and tried for a long period to improve on it but finally decided to go with their first idea.”
• “The Last Time” was also one of the first songs the Stones recorded at RCA Studios in Hollywood, California.
• RCA Studios was a favorite recording locale for the Stones in 1965 and 1966, with three separate visits that yielded classic tracks including “Paint It, Black,” “Let’s Spend The Night Together,” “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “Get Off My Cloud,” and “Mother’s Little Helper.”
• Wyman remembered the scene at RCA Studios and in Los Angeles at that time — “We loved this studio because it was custom-built: with no windows, we neither knew nor cared whether it was night or day but just kept playing on. As I arrived, two girls we had met in Phoenix were hanging around outside. I got them into the studio quietly and told them to strip and walk in on the boys to shock them, which they did. (Producer-manager) Andrew (Loog Oldham) grabbed one and pulled her into the control room for ‘action’ in front of everyone.”
• Producers Phil Spector and Jack Nitzsche provided unacknowledged (at the time) “production assistance” to the Stones at RCA.
• The Stones performed “The Last Time” on The Ed Sullivan Show on May 2nd, 1965.
• “Play With Fire” was the B-side of “The Last Time.”
• The Out Of Our Heads album was the group’s first Number One album in the U.S., and it spent three weeks at the top of the chart.

FAST FORWARD:

• Guitarist Brian Jones was fired by the band on June 8th, 1969, because of drug and personal problems. He drowned in his swimming pool less than a month later, on July 3rd, 1969.
• Mick Taylor replaced Jones in the band. When Taylor left in 1974, Ron Wood was brought in.
• The Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.
• Bill Wyman left the band in 1993.