The Stones had been touring in the States listening to the radio all day long, Lee Hazlewood lived in the States. Jan Cornelissen from Brasschaat, BelgiumI’m 66 now, and before the day I die, I would like to know the link between “Summer Wine” of Lee Hazlewood and “Paint in black” of the Rolling Stones.

'Brian's sitar line not only makes the song happen but also turns it into a timeless classic,' Danny Garcia, director of the film Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones, told Songfacts. His notable contributions to the group include lead guitar on ' Get Off of My Cloud' and recorder on ' Ruby Tuesday,' but his work on 'Paint It Black' may have been his greatest musical achievement. Less than a month later he drowned in his swimming pool at age 27. By June 1969, he was a liability, and the Stones fired him. He was still going strong when this song was released in 1966, but fell off a year later when his drug use caught up to him and his girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg, left him for Richards.

Jones was a founding member of the Stones and key to their early success. Jones did the arrangements for 'Paint It Black' and many other songs around this time, but according to Keith Richards, he never presented a finished song to the group, which kept him off the credits.

Brian Jones had a lot of input into this song, but was left off the songwriting credits (Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are the credited writers).

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