If you'd ask me, would i ever sing a song from Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, the Rolling Stone, i'd definitely reply, 'i don't think i can.'. i am sure the Rolling Stone has produced many important songs, it's just that i know my ability & limitation. But one should never say 'never' right ?
"As Tears Go By" was one of the first original compositions by Jagger and Richards; previously, the Rolling Stones had chiefly been performing American blues and R&B tunes. By one account, Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham locked Jagger and Richards in a kitchen in order to force them to write a song together, even suggesting what type of song he wanted: "I want a song with brick walls all around it, high windows and no sex." The result was initially named "As Time Goes By", the title of the song Dooley Wilson sings in the film Casablanca. It was Oldham who replaced "Time" with "Tears". So The song 'As Tears Go By' was born.