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The Last Time Chorus obviously comes from the Staple Singers version and Mick and Keith have added the verses and so it's a Jagger/Richards song so to speak with a (ahem) borrowed chorus and added verses.
The riff is played by Brian up the neck, as has been pointed out.
The riff would be Brians IMO.
The credits should really be Jagger/Richards/Jones.
Jagger/Richards for the verses as the chorus is borrowed from the Staples and Jones for the riff but it depends on how someone wants to look at it because the song can exist without the riff and therefore it's a Jagger/Richards song which is probably easier for copyright with Oldham having already set all that up.
Last Time without the riff would be a lot blander.
It's a great riff even though it's only simple.
Interesting thing about the Last Time riff and the Satisfaction riff is that Brian is playing the riff with Keith on Acoustic for the Last Time and Satisfaction is the exact opposite with Keith playing the riff and Brian on Acoustic.
I've seen Keith playing the Satisfaction riff up the neck.
Both the Last Time riff and the Satisfaction riff have this novelty mistake thing in them where on some of the riff repeats it sounds like there is a mistake in them and this actually ends up adding something to the riff and song.