I thought I knew everything by The Rolling Stones but I’d never heard this song from Their Satanic Majesties Request ’til this morning, when it was chosen on the radio by Thurston Moore.

The Sonic Youth front man recalled buying his mum buying him his first “record album” at the age of nine or ten in smalltown Connecticut.

I’m the same age as Thurston (something he once calculated from a conversation about our respective views on The Beatles) and in that same year of 1968 I was still a year away from buying my first singles – Lily The Pink and Those Were The Days.

Evidently a precocious child, little Thurston asked his mom to buy him Their Satanic Majesties Request.

I’m not sure I’ve ever listened to it. But if this is representative I will: Citadel has Keith’s crunchy riff, Bill and Charlie’s ramshackle rhythm and a psychedelic undercurrent with Brian Jones’s mellotron, flute and sax, over which Mick offers a glimpse of his personal haven in a dark and chaotic world.

Mick being Mick, that haven involves two groupies – Candy and Taffy (or possibly Cathy) – in his titular citadel, an imaginary utopia which may have been inspired by Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.

Anyway, here it is from that Stones album, prior to being covered by The Damned (1981), Serbian band Električni Orgazam and, most impressively, by The Comsat Angels (1992).