The Story Behind “2000 Light Years from Home” by The Rolling Stones and the Unusual Place Where Mick Jagger Wrote It [Video]

On March 30, 1967, The Beatles arrived at photographer Michael Cooper’s Chelsea Manor Photo Studios to pose for the cover of their upcoming album Sgt, Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The project was unlike any album cover before. Images of dozens of iconic figures surrounded the four Beatles. The layout was designed by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, and art directed by Robert Fraser. On the right side of the album, there is a Shirley Temple doll wearing a child’s sweater with the words, “WMPS Good Guys Welcome The Rolling Stones.”

A radio contest was held in Memphis, Tennessee, during the 1965 Rolling Stones American Tour. Mary Scruggs sewed the words onto the sweater and entered it into the art contest for the chance to meet the band. She won the opportunity to meet the band after their Memphis appearance. Scruggs gave Mick Jagger the sweater, and he brought it back home to England. It …