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"Goin' Home" Is A Song Recorded By The English Rock Band The Rolling Stones. Written By Mick Jagger And Keith Richards It Was The Longest Popular Music Song At The Time Coming In At 11 Minutes And 35 Seconds And Was The First Extended Rock Improvisation Released By A Major Recording Act. It Was Included As The Sixth Track On Side One Of The United Kingdom Version And The Fifth Track On Side Two Of The American Version Of The Band's 1966 Studio Album Aftermath. "Goin' Home" Was Written By Mick Jagger And Keith Richards And Recorded At RCA Studios In Hollywood From 8 To 10 December 1965. The Recording Is A Long Blues-Inspired Track That Is Notable As One Of The First Songs By A Rock And Roll Band To Break The Ten-Minute Mark And The Longest Recorded Song On Any Stones Album. While Many Bands Had Stretched A Song's Duration In Live Performances And Bob Dylan Was Known To Write Long Songs Such As Highlands "Goin' Home" Was The First "jam" Recorded Expressly For An Album. In An Interview With The Magazine Rolling Stone Richards Said It Was The First Long Rock And Roll Cut. It Broke That Two-Minute Barrier. We Tried To Make Singles As Long As We Could Do Then Because We Just Liked To Let Things Roll On. Dylan Was Used To Building A Song For 20 Minutes Because Of The Folk Thing He Came From. That Was Another Thing. No One Sat Down To Make An 11-Minute Track. I Mean 'Goin' Home' The Song Was Written Just The First 2 And A Half Minutes. We Just Happened To Keep The Tape Rolling Me On Guitar Brian Jones On Harp Bill Wyman On Bass And Charlie Watts On Drums And Mick. If There's A Piano It's Stew Ian Stewart . Jack Nitzsche A Regular Stones Contributor Throughout The 1960s Here Performs Percussion. The Song While Lengthy Is Built Around A Common Theme As Opposed To Later Stones Songs Of Great Length Like "Midnight Rambler" Or "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" Which Are Divided Into Distinct Sections Punctuated By Differing Instrumentations. "Goin' Home" Plays As A Long Jam Eventually Deconstructing Richards' Guitar Piece Jagger's Lyrics And Watts' Drum Lines Which Build In Power As The Song Progresses. Jagger's Lyrics Are Called "a Basic Expression Of His Pining For His Girl And Determination To Go Home And Get Him Some. It's The Bumpety-Bump Ascending Chorus Of Announcing His Intentions To Go Home That's The Most 'pop' Element Of The Song." A Bitter-Sweet Ending Is In The Final Lyrics "Come On Little Girl You May Look Sweet But I Know You Ain't".