Pop Song 125 'Paint it Black' The Rolling Stones 1966

Paint It Black is a song recorded in 1966 by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. A product of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' songwriting partnership, it is an up-tempo song with Indian, Middle Eastern and Eastern European influences and features lyrics about grief and loss. Using colour-based metaphors, the song's lyrics describe the grief suffered by someone stunned by the sudden and unexpected loss of a partner. Commentators often speculated that Jagger took inspiration from novelist James Joyce's 1922 book Ulysses, particularly the excerpt "I have to turn my head until my darkness goes", referring to the novel's theme of a world view of desperation and desolation