In Another Land ~ The Rolling Stones ~ Acoustic Cover w/ Harley Benton Custom Line CLC-650 SM CE Bk
(c)1967 Words & Music by Bill Wyman
Track 3 on The Rolling Stones´ album "Their Satanic Majesties Request"
Arr. stagwolf (Played in the key of D, Capo 2nd fret, sounds in the key of E
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"In Another Land" occupies a special place in the catalog of the London quintet. This is because it is officially credited to Bill Wyman. The Rolling Stones bassist wrote the number at the beginning of July 1967 on a Thomas organ and then made a demo. Probably it would have progressed no further but for a lucky coincidence that he recounts in his memoirs: "Astrid [Lundström] and I drove to Barnes on 13 July to attend a recording session with the Stones at Olympic with Glyn Johns as engineer. Nobody else turned up except Charlie and pianist Nicky Hopkins. We were thinking of leaving when Glyn said to me, ´Do you have a song to do?´ I sat at the piano and played ´In Another Land´ and they all liked it."
Science fiction meets psychedelia: Bill Wyman´s song is highly characteristic of the second half of the sixties, in particular the summer of 1967. The story is of a man who wakes up from a dream only to find himself living another dream--- a kind of dream within a dream. "In Another Land" was chosen as the A-side of a single released on December 2, 1967 (with "The Lantern" as the B-side), a few days before the album went on sale. It failed to chart in the UK, and in the US it got no higher than number 87 on the Billboard pop chart.