You Can't Always Get What You Want

"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
UK picture sleeve (reverse)
Single by the Rolling Stones
from the album Let It Bleed
A-side"Honky Tonk Women"
Released
  • 4 July 1969 (1969-07-04) (single version)
  • December 1969 (extended album version)
Recorded16–17 November 1968
StudioOlympic, London
Genre
Length
  • 5:00 (single)
  • 7:28 (album)
Label
SongwriterJagger–Richards
ProducerJimmy Miller
The Rolling Stones UK singles chronology
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"
(1968)
"Honky Tonk Women" / "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
(1969)
"Brown Sugar"
(1971)
The Rolling Stones US singles chronology
"Street Fighting Man"
(1968)
"Honky Tonk Women" / "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
(1969)
"Brown Sugar"
(1971)
Official audio
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" on YouTube

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones from their 1969 album Let It Bleed. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was named as the 100th greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in its 2004 list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" before dropping a place the following year.