Gimme Shelter is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones. It first appeared as the opening track on the bands 1969 album Let It Bleed. Although the first word was spelled Gimmie on that album, subsequent recordings by the band and other musicians have made Gimme the customary spelling. Greil Marcus, writing in Rolling Stone at the time of its release, said of it, The Stones have never done anything better. The song features female vocals by Merry Clayton. Gimme Shelter was written by the Rolling Stones lead vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, the bands primary songwriting team. Richards began working on the songs signature opening riff in London during the period when Jagger was away acting in the film Performance. As released, the song begins with Richards performing a guitar intro, soon joined by Jaggers harmonica and subsequent lead vocal. On Let It Bleeds bleak world view, Jagger said in a 1995 interview withRolling Stone: Well, its a very rough, very violent era. The Vietnam War. Violence on the screens, pillage and burning. And Vietnam was not war as we knew it in the conventional sense. The thing about Vietnam was that it wasnt like World War II, and it wasnt like Korea, and it wasnt like the Gulf War. It was a real nasty war, and people didnt like it. People objected, and people didnt want to fight it... As for the song itself, he concluded, Thats a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. Its apocalypse; the whole records like that. - wikipedia
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