The Rolling Stones released their classic single “Honky Tonk Woman” in the U.K. on July 4, 1969. The track was released as a single and featured the B-Side "You Can't Always Get What You Want.” The track was released the following week in the U.S. where it shot to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. When it hit number one in August of 1969, it claimed the top spot from "In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" by Zager and Evans. They held on for one month at number one before "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies claimed the top spot. Keith Richards explained the song’s origins, saying:“’Honky Tonk Women’ started in Brazil. Mick and I, Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg, who was pregnant with my son at the time. Which didn't stop us going off to the Mato Grasso and living on this ranch. It's all cowboys. It's all horses and spurs. And Mick and I were sitting on the porch of this ranch house and I started to play, basically fooling around with an old Hank Williams idea. 'Cause we really thought we were like real cowboys,” he said, according to songfacts.com.