Cover Versions
In 1966, American girl group Candy & The Kisses recorded the song and released it as a single.
In 1967, The Who rush-recorded a version of this song and "Under My Thumb" to show support for Jagger and Richards, who had been sentenced to prison terms on drug charges.
In 1996, Serbian singer Dušan Prelević released a Serbian language cover of the song, entitled "Neću da se predam" ("I Won't Give Up"), on his album Ja, Prele.
In 1997, former Rolling Stones business manager Allen Klein, whose company ABKCO Records owns the rights to all Rolling Stones material from the 1960s, sued English rock band The Verve for using a sample of The Andrew Oldham Orchestra recording of "The Last Time" in their hit song "Bitter Sweet Symphony". The Verve had obtained a licence to use the sample, but Klein successfully argued that the band used more than the licence covered. The Verve were required to relinquish their royalties to ABKCO and the songwriting credit was changed to Jagger/Richards. This led to Andrew Loog Oldham, who owns the copyright on the orchestral rendition that was sampled, also suing The Verve.
Australian singer John Farnham covered the song in 2002, as the lead single and title track of his 2002 album, The Last Time.
The German singer Nena recorded a version on her 2007 album "Cover Me".
The same hook was sampled in several other subsequent recordings by other artists, most notably in "Number 1" by Tinchy Stryder featuring N-Dubz, which reached number one in the UK singles chart in the week of its official release on 20 April 2009.
Mick Jagger performed a version of the song with The Arcade Fire on an episode of Saturday Night Live that aired on May 19, 2012.
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