2000 Light Years from Home

{{For|the Green Day song, 2000 Light Years Away|2000 Light Years Away}}

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{{Infobox song

| name = 2000 Light Years from Home

| cover = 2000 Light Years from Home cover.jpg

| alt =

| caption = German single picture sleeve

| type = single

| artist = the Rolling Stones

| album = Their Satanic Majesties Request

| A-side = She's a Rainbow

| released = *{{Start date|1967|11|df=y}} (US single){{cite AV media notes |title=Singles Collection: The London Years |others=The Rolling Stones |first=Bruce |last=Eder |type=Boxed set booklet |year=1989 |location=New York City |publisher=ABKCO Records |id=1218-2 |page=72}}

• 8 December 1967 (UK album)

| recorded = July & September 1967

| studio = Olympic, London

| genre = *Psychedelic rock{{cite book |first=Jim |last=DeRogatis |author-link= Jim DeRogatis |year=2003 |title=Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock |chapter=The Stones' Ten Best Psychedelic Rock Songs |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |page=54 |isbn=0-634-05548-8 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=U7cQmRsLgN8C&pg=PA54}}

• space rock{{cite book |last1=Luhrssen |first1=David, and Michael Larson |title=Encyclopedia of Classic Rock |date=2017 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |page=305}}

| length = *{{Duration|m=2|s=52}} (US promo single edit)

• {{Duration|m=4|s=45}} (single & album version)

| label = *London (US)

• Decca (UK)

| writer = Jagger–Richards

| producer = The Rolling Stones

| chronology = The Rolling Stones US

| prev_title = In Another Land

| prev_year = 1967

| next_title = Jumpin' Jack Flash

| next_year = 1968

| misc = {{Extra track listing

| album = Their Satanic Majesties Request

| type = single

| tracks = {{Their Satanic Majesties Request tracks}}

}}

}}

"2000 Light Years from Home" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on their 1967 album Their Satanic Majesties Request.{{cite web |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19813/m1/ |title=Show 46 - Sergeant Pepper at the Summit: The very best of a very good year. [Part 2] : UNT Digital Library |website=Digital.library.unt.edu |access-date=2016-10-01}} Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it also appeared as the B-side to the American single "She's a Rainbow", and charted as a single in Germany.

Jagger reportedly wrote the lyrics in Brixton prison following his conviction on drug charges in June 1967.{{cite book |last=Davis |first=S. |title=Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40 Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones |publisher=Aurum Press |year=2002 |page=217}} The song was recorded by the band at Olympic Studios during July and September 1967. The working title of the instrumental backing was "Toffee Apple". Brian Jones performs prominent accompaniment on Mellotron.

The number was regularly featured during the Stones' 1989–90 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tours.

Until 1997, when "She's a Rainbow" was also added to the band's stage repertoire, it was the only track from Satanic Majesties that the band had performed in concert. For the first time in 23 years, The Rolling Stones played "2000 Light Years from Home" on 29 June 2013 at The Glastonbury Festival.