When merrys voice cracks it’s so chilling almost sensual but also really cold and like a cry out for help like it’s the end of the world so much emotion in her voice
Jagger's been almost dismissive of her in interviews (as here; doesn't say her name; gives a quick, "Yeah, yeah, she does a great job on this"). I think she steals the show.
Merry Clayton was pregnant at the time she was asked to come to the studio and sing what they wanted. Because she was pregnant and it was the middle of the night she had to sit down to belt it out. The iconic Keith intro with amplifier tremolo and Merry's amazingly powerful voice sets off one of Mick and Keith's best songs ever. The idea for the song came to Keith as he looked out his hotel window one evening and saw all these people scurrying for a bus shelter in the pouring rain. Anyone might experience that and never give it a second thought. A genius and poet like Keith is, sees that and says what a wonderful metaphor for desperation to write a song around...and out comes the guitar. What a gift he has and what a treasure he is to us all.
I think Merry mentioned that when Jagger called her husband answered the phone and said it's for you. She said, who is it? He said, Mick Jagger. She said, something like WTF, who's pranking me at this hour? She just didn't believe it was him at first.
To be honest, Mick and Keith are funny, but don't really recognize ANYONE else. He mentions Merry, but not really. Just like they don't even know Mick Taylor, or Bill freakin' Wyman!!! All about the Glimmer Twins.
The first time I heard this song was in December '69 in the PX at Fort Knox.I was in Army Basic Training (recruit training) anticipating...and fearing...being sent to Vietnam (I was lucky, I wasn't sent there). I remember it like it was yesterday.
@@hollywinters8408 ppl can argue with that but Sir Mick and the Boys are still rocking more than a half a century!!! No band has done that!!! So..... Just call me Lucifer and I'll lay your soul to waste!
@@ronjackson6358 it was. We knew it was fantastic. Micks shirt and scarf. A wall of rock n roll. . Tina. Janis. ? BB.King. Forgot a lot of shows around then- not this one.
When I discovered ‘Winter’ off of Goats Head Soup I couldn’t believe it wasn’t getting regular radio play. The same with Moonlight Mile. They are real power ballads that reach deep into your emotions.
I will be 70 in one month. What I do to to get ready is I still wake up every day. Just get up and take the whiled horses and run with them. And live on.!!!!
Let It Bleed 🩸 is the absolute Favourite Stones record. I’ve played to that vinyl for so many times when I was 14 and many years after. Not the right tones but the right feeling. Rock out 🎸
Same here. The stones cataloque is huge, and they have like 50 good songs like satisfaction, wild horses, play with fire, angie, paint it black, Jumpin Jack flash, symphaty for the devil, under my thumb, cant hear me knocking, miss you, Brown sugar ect ect ect. But gimme shelter is my absolute favorite.
The Stones are a fantastic band, maybe the greatest of all time. I've seen them live a few times, not recently because I thought it might be a bit sad - I was wrong, I have seen some videos of recent concerts and they still have it, my bad!
Mick jagger is rock and roll, the love of many, many people. The hole band is in the stars. It’s been a great pleasure to have u around. Through so many lives, ups and downs, music is golden.
Two of my most loved songs of the Stones.... Gimme Shelter and Wild Horses....in one! Great interview! and Love the part Mick Says. "The harmonica is only 2 notes." Just Great Ending! lol
Like you, I was totally captivated by Gimmie Shelter, being a huge Stones fan. When I was a Free-Form DJ at Progressive Rock KNAC-FM in Long Beach, CA 1969-72, I used to sometimes play Gimmie Shelter with phasing, live on-the-air by playing two Let It Bleed LPs simultaneously just slightly out of sync to get that swirling sound across the two playing LPs. Amazing effect. If the song wasn't totally amazing all on its own, phasing it created a certain ethereal sound. Listeners would always call afterword asking where I got that version of the song? I'd never heard any other DJ do that before. I included this Gimmie Shelter phasing as part of the recorded hour of my show entered in national radio competition and won Billboard Magazine's Air Personality of The Year award for 1971 in Progressive Rock. To hear this effect you would need two turntables and two copies of Let It Bleed and play them exactly together and slightly alter the speed by gently touching one of the turntables while playing, then touching the other turntable to phase over again. Gimme Shelter is very much like a time-machine to me now whenever I hear it. Mick is about a year and 1/2 older than me.
The Rolling Stones output from 1964 till 1972 made them the greatest rock and roll band in the world then during the rest of the seventies and eighties , apart from the occasional good song , that was really it and yet their reputation lives on and year after year these elderly gentlemen can still sell out world tours and generate millions of dollars . I remember on a radio interview in 1965 Mick said “I can see us performing for another couple of years and then I’ll do something else” how wrong he was . Good luck lads your reputation has remained intact . Larry from Glasgow 😎
Judging by worldwide album sales, they've made a lot of good music since Exile but haven't received much radio airplay simply because it favours younger artists and the next big thing.
💫 Thank you for posting this. The audio is so beautifully clear! Enjoyed it just before falling asleep and had my best Stones dream so far: he was talking to me backstage. 😃
That opening is so classic. When I bought this album as a teenager I must have played this song until the needle came out the other side. Love, love, love it.
Yes I did met Mick, private place in Amsterdam 1987, talking for at least 30 minutes ; one of if not THE interesting man ever talking to and was lucky of course, now it’s even more special at this age, grateful to have lived with them part of my life
Never had the pleasure of meeting Him.But MICK SURE COMES across as a Vert COOL ,SMART GUY.He ALWAYS knew What he wanted to do.Where he wanted do.HOW TI GET THERE.GREATEST FRONTMAN EVER.VERY POWERFUL VOICE.Very DISTINCTIVE TOO.!! Walter B.Memphis 🎙🎼☝️🌟💯
love this!!! Timely, I was also doin g radio in 2012,at CHRY radio as a volunteer beat reporter not on drugs. lol. thank you mick jagger you are a good intelligent man.
I've always loved The Stones. Grew up in the 60s/70s and The Beatles were 1a and The Stones were 1b on the Rock&Roll scale. Sooo many good songs. When I was 9, in 1965, I remember turning up the volume on the car radio when 'Satisfaction' played. To have those 2 groups educate me was a dream come true.
I’m 58 and not a rock fan (jazz musician) but lately viewing Mick, Keith, Ronnie, Darryl, Steve Jordan (great drummer with them now), Charlie (❤️RIP) - they are guiding lights on how to age gracefully, not taking things too seriously, keenly aware of the grim realities of the world but not letting it crush the spirit. Mick’s message (my take anyway): keep rocking, love your bad self, live fully each day you get.
Still the Cool Kat from the 60' The Rolling Stones each of them are the Classiest GUYS ever.❤damn i dropping 30lbs this month shouldn't have let myself go.
"Jimmy on the scraper." It sounds like a quiro, pronounced "Wheeto" (phonetic spelling) which is a dried gourd with notches cut into it. Two note harmonica solo-BRILLIANT!
I wish Mick would have mentioned what Keith talks about somewhere: they were blown away when Clayton was singing, and you can hear their reaction in the background at one point.
He been a rock star since he was in his early twenties so that makes sense that his ego is large. He lives a very luxurious life style but it comes at the cost of his privacy and that’s pretty big IMO
I saw a picture somewhere keith was running cross country. I miss running 10 miles up hills n Arroyo's. Before the invasion of rich puffs. Anyway i move out of Santa Fe. But that old dude can run i ain't got no back n my spine has 7 disc gone nobody knows where but lots of pills i never heard great Doctors who knows i just might run again next to balling running was my favorite past time. I know i get carried away
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Gimme shelter is the perfect rock song from start to finish..arrangements, lyrics, vocals..has it all. 👏👏
Gives you chills
The perfect song period.
I've listened to 'Gimme Shelter' thousands of times and I STILL get chills from the opening and again from Merry Clayton's amazing vocal.
And Charlie's perfect drumming.
This song is such a pure Masterpiece.
One of the greatest songs of all time!
The intro of this great song still sends tingles down my spine to this day… an absolutely phenomenal piece of work!
This song for me is one I have to listen as loud as possible. I never get sick of it.
Its the best guitar intro ever.
I agree too, There’s something mesmerising about it. Love the opening riffs.
Yes agree
And without Mick Taylor....
Keith sometime Is underrated and i don't find It so right
Rolling Stones are great from beginning to end
Mick turns 80 next year, and will probably celebrate while on tour...legend is an understatement
Strong epigenetics!
So much for giving it all up at 30!!!
This song is a banger never gets old.
Heard this song thousands of times since I was 14 NEVER gets old!!
When merrys voice cracks it’s so chilling almost sensual but also really cold and like a cry out for help like it’s the end of the world so much emotion in her voice
If you listen closely there’s a guy yelling wooo just after the voice crack
Yes, it was Sir Mick
Jagger's been almost dismissive of her in interviews (as here; doesn't say her name; gives a quick, "Yeah, yeah, she does a great job on this"). I think she steals the show.
@@scitchyrooroo yeah....l wish he'd give her more creedence. Was disappointed with his reluctance and amnesia. Old sod that he is!!
@@isabelleholland8511she had a miscarriage after singing this she was far along
One of the best stones songs Such A Masterpiece
Gimme Shelter, simply the best.
Merry Clayton was pregnant at the time she was asked to come to the studio and sing what they wanted. Because she was pregnant and it was the middle of the night she had to sit down to belt it out. The iconic Keith intro with amplifier tremolo and Merry's amazingly powerful voice sets off one of Mick and Keith's best songs ever.
The idea for the song came to Keith as he looked out his hotel window one evening and saw all these people scurrying for a bus shelter in the pouring rain.
Anyone might experience that and never give it a second thought. A genius and poet like Keith is, sees that and says what a wonderful metaphor for desperation to write a song around...and out comes the guitar.
What a gift he has and what a treasure he is to us all.
I think Merry mentioned that when Jagger called her husband answered the phone and said it's for you. She said, who is it? He said, Mick Jagger. She said, something like WTF, who's pranking me at this hour? She just didn't believe it was him at first.
And after she left the studio, she had a miscarriage, probably the result of her intense vocal exertion. Sad.
@@edwardwhitford8213 If that's true, it's incredibly sad.
Mick's harmonica resonating down the decades.
Yes.On BLUE AND LONESOME.He is REALLY SPECTACULAR and other songs too. Walter B.Memphis. 👍🌟💯
On this track, it was just a minimal monotone solo, and not a very flashy one like he'd do for "Midnight Rambler."
@@ClassicTVMan1981X Yeah, but it was the perfect ''two notes''. FAR more impressive than running scales.
Two NASTY notes.@@meetontheledge1380
Not sure whether I love the intro or Merry Clayton’s vocals more; just a bloody amazing song 😎🇨🇦🎸
So many great songs, Gimme Shelter #1. Rock and Blues combined to perfection!!!!
Merry Clayton is awesome! She tells this story, she was very pregnant, never heard of the Stones, she went in her curlers, pj's and her mink coat!
and Chanel hair wrap. Don't forget that part lol
She actually has a love hate relationship w/it bc she miscarried days later! 😥
Did she ever tour with them
Great interview. This is one of my all-time favourite Stones songs. The introduction is so iconic.
~Love to listen to mick he is such a classy soul!!....Kisses!!
My favorite Stone's tune, no question.
Probably my favourite Stones track, which in itself is a massive statement
Melissa has a lovely voice.
Jagger is a very funny guy. I love his interviews.
Yes he can be very charming
Has a great sense of humour.
@@marieostrom4711 And self mockery : it's me, me and me :)
So is kieth Richards
To be honest, Mick and Keith are funny, but don't really recognize ANYONE else. He mentions Merry, but not really. Just like they don't even know Mick Taylor, or Bill freakin' Wyman!!! All about the Glimmer Twins.
I named my Airstream RV Gimme Shelter cause it does!
The first time I heard this song was in December '69 in the PX at Fort Knox.I was in Army Basic Training (recruit training) anticipating...and fearing...being sent to Vietnam (I was lucky, I wasn't sent there). I remember it like it was yesterday.
all these guys so humble and good gentle souls.the best front man of all times.
Timeless classic
My favorite song - I've seen them 6 times and that first riff calms me down-I could listen to it on a repeat loop all day!
Got to be one of your best. Brilliant
My favorite RS song
Mine too and midnight rambler.
The matter with the Stones : too many greats songs.
@@Methilde I like their song bitch too but as you said they have so many good ones.
Best band of all space and time. In my humble opinion.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!❤
@@hollywinters8408 ppl can argue with that but Sir Mick and the Boys are still rocking more than a half a century!!! No band has done that!!! So..... Just call me Lucifer and I'll lay your soul to waste!
Zeitgeist is spot on absolutely time relevant....love it still❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥🦋🌺💚🧚
Mick on Harmonica: It's an economy of style ❤
Merry Clayton really intensifies this song.
Gimme Shelter- to Wild Horses. Some band. Was at the “ ya ya’s “show at MSG. What an era to grow up.
Must've been one helluva show...did you realize what you had witnessed?
@@ronjackson6358 it was. We knew it was fantastic. Micks shirt and scarf. A wall of rock n roll. . Tina. Janis. ? BB.King. Forgot a lot of shows around then- not this one.
@@golds04I heard it was pretty rough up front. Did you have good seats?
When I discovered ‘Winter’ off of Goats Head Soup I couldn’t believe it wasn’t getting regular radio play. The same with Moonlight Mile. They are real power ballads that reach deep into your emotions.
Two Taylor /Jagger songs!!!!
@@Methilde “Sway” is another good Jagger/Taylor song.
@@lordofthemound3890 yes, and Till the Next Time, too. I often ask me how great could have been be a Jagger/Taylor album.
@@Methilde Till the Next Goodbye. The album is It's Only Rock 'n Roll
Yes indeed
#GOTTA LOVE THAT MICK🌹🌹🌹🌹
Greatest Rock N' Roll Band in The World.....Period.
Great great track . How great and talented them young lads were . Unbeknownst to them I imagine .
Mick is quite a guy. I admire him. Great interview.
What a powerful song, so many emotions are in it... and Merry Clayton's background vocals are so chilling.
I will be 70 in one month. What I do to to get ready is I still wake up every day. Just get up and take the whiled horses and run with them. And live on.!!!!
Let It Bleed 🩸 is the absolute Favourite Stones record. I’ve played to that vinyl for so many times when I was 14 and many years after. Not the right tones but the right feeling.
Rock out 🎸
They have a lot of great songs, but this one could very well be my favorite.
Same here. The stones cataloque is huge, and they have like 50 good songs like satisfaction, wild horses, play with fire, angie, paint it black, Jumpin Jack flash, symphaty for the devil, under my thumb, cant hear me knocking, miss you, Brown sugar ect ect ect. But gimme shelter is my absolute favorite.
The Stones are a fantastic band, maybe the greatest of all time. I've seen them live a few times, not recently because I thought it might be a bit sad - I was wrong, I have seen some videos of recent concerts and they still have it, my bad!
Epic song! Interesting interview. Thanks.
great piece...rad to hear Mick talk about the song in his signature sassy truthful honest style
Mick jagger is rock and roll, the love of many, many people. The hole band is in the stars. It’s been a great pleasure to have u around. Through so many lives, ups and downs, music is golden.
Best band of all space and time
Legions and legions of fans
Two of my most loved songs of the Stones.... Gimme Shelter and Wild Horses....in one! Great interview! and Love the part Mick Says. "The harmonica is only 2 notes." Just Great Ending! lol
I Love Mick Jagger ♥️
Like you, I was totally captivated by Gimmie Shelter, being a huge Stones fan. When I was a Free-Form DJ at Progressive Rock KNAC-FM in Long Beach, CA 1969-72, I used to sometimes play Gimmie Shelter with phasing, live on-the-air by playing two Let It Bleed LPs simultaneously just slightly out of sync to get that swirling sound across the two playing LPs. Amazing effect. If the song wasn't totally amazing all on its own, phasing it created a certain ethereal sound. Listeners would always call afterword asking where I got that version of the song? I'd never heard any other DJ do that before. I included this Gimmie Shelter phasing as part of the recorded hour of my show entered in national radio competition and won Billboard Magazine's Air Personality of The Year award for 1971 in Progressive Rock. To hear this effect you would need two turntables and two copies of Let It Bleed and play them exactly together and slightly alter the speed by gently touching one of the turntables while playing, then touching the other turntable to phase over again. Gimme Shelter is very much like a time-machine to me now whenever I hear it. Mick is about a year and 1/2 older than me.
i love Mick Jagger
How have I never heard of YOU before Melissa? That was the VERY best Jagger interview I've ever heard. GIMME MORE!!
The Rolling Stones output from 1964 till 1972 made them the greatest rock and roll band in the world then during the rest of the seventies and eighties , apart from the occasional good song , that was really it and yet their reputation lives on and year after year these elderly gentlemen can still sell out world tours and generate millions of dollars . I remember on a radio interview in 1965 Mick said “I can see us performing for another couple of years and then I’ll do something else” how wrong he was . Good luck lads your reputation has remained intact . Larry from Glasgow 😎
Judging by worldwide album sales,
they've made a lot of good music
since Exile but haven't received much radio airplay simply because it favours younger artists and the next big thing.
I don’t think people would be bored to tears with a show full of ballads . I think people would love it
The greatest rock 'n roll song of all time
Love Mick
💫 Thank you for posting this.
The audio is so beautifully clear!
Enjoyed it just before falling asleep
and had my best Stones dream so far:
he was talking to me backstage. 😃
That opening is so classic. When I bought this album as a teenager I must have played this song until the needle came out the other side. Love, love, love it.
Mick is a nice fellow to converse with.
never met him....but i met and hung out with mick taylor....total gentleman
He's a very down to earth 🌎 wonderful father also!
@@CARNELIANTURQUOISE yep
@@johnscialfa7391 Yes, he is:) I think ...
Yes I did met Mick, private place in Amsterdam 1987, talking for at least 30 minutes ; one of if not THE interesting man ever talking to and was lucky of course, now it’s even more special at this age, grateful to have lived with them part of my life
Never had the pleasure of meeting Him.But MICK SURE COMES across as a Vert COOL ,SMART GUY.He ALWAYS knew What he wanted to do.Where he wanted do.HOW TI GET THERE.GREATEST FRONTMAN EVER.VERY POWERFUL VOICE.Very DISTINCTIVE TOO.!! Walter B.Memphis 🎙🎼☝️🌟💯
love this!!! Timely, I was also doin g radio in 2012,at CHRY radio as a volunteer beat reporter not on drugs. lol. thank you mick jagger you are a good intelligent man.
love this
I love the Rolling stones
Best ..best best solo ever !!
Pure Class Band. Gimme Shelter's like a clear pre Higher Conscious . Prophecy for Earth's present travails. 🌌🌏💔💙🎭🥁🎤🎻🎵🎶 🦋🙏
Top tune. Adore The Stones.
Gimme shelter thee best stones song ! Only one better song small faces! Tin soldier!
Gimme Shelter and Shine a Light are amazing masterpieces.
👍 Agreed 🌟
Amazing song so haunting to me it’s the guitar but I sure do appreciate all aspects of the song and everybody else very creative.
I've always loved The Stones. Grew up in the 60s/70s and The Beatles were 1a and The Stones were 1b on the
Rock&Roll scale. Sooo many good songs. When I was 9, in 1965, I remember turning up the volume on the
car radio when 'Satisfaction' played. To have those 2 groups educate me was a dream come true.
Merry Clayton makes this song!
I’m 58 and not a rock fan (jazz musician) but lately viewing Mick, Keith, Ronnie, Darryl, Steve Jordan (great drummer with them now), Charlie (❤️RIP) - they are guiding lights on how to age gracefully, not taking things too seriously, keenly aware of the grim realities of the world but not letting it crush the spirit. Mick’s message (my take anyway): keep rocking, love your bad self, live fully each day you get.
This is one of the many reasons why they are the greatest.
He is a funny bugger. Cracks me up.
beautiful song
Gimme shelter ... spooky, beautiful, majestic. God loves you Mick. So do we ....
Excellent Mr J x
Idk if i ever heard mick breakdown a song like he did hear,I could easily listen to mick explain every breakdown of every song they recorded
Imo this is a top 10 song of all time...by anyone
Still the Cool Kat from the 60' The Rolling Stones each of them are the Classiest GUYS ever.❤damn i dropping 30lbs this month shouldn't have let myself go.
😁🎶❤😁💋🎶😁...Thank you 👍...Thank You Lord ✝️ for the Tingles with Both tunes 🙏❤✝️
"Jimmy on the scraper." It sounds like a quiro, pronounced "Wheeto" (phonetic spelling) which is a dried gourd with notches cut into it. Two note harmonica solo-BRILLIANT!
Rock Classical Wunderbar Music!
"Wild Horses " was such a beautiful song. The Flying Burrito Bros recorded before the Stones but Mick and Kieth wrote it.
It is a real pretty song. I especially like the Stripped album version of Wild Horses❤️
With Gram Parsons
I wish Mick would have mentioned what Keith talks about somewhere: they were blown away when Clayton was singing, and you can hear their reaction in the background at one point.
Lisa Fischer took it to another level Amsterdam 1995 is the best ever and it’s live
Gimme Shelter one of the Greatest Rock N Roll songs
Love to hear the other interviews from this series but I can't find them.
I hear Merry Clayton doing the falsetto at the beginning.
6:36 except if you are KISS or Alice, then you have to rock the outfits lol. Alice Magic works. Thanks you two for a perfect interview
Where can I find the Charlie Watts interview? I did a quick search, but no joy.
"You have to crank up the ego."
I met Jagger in Mustique years ago. There is no cranking up of the ego. It's already at 11.
He been a rock star since he was in his early twenties so that makes sense that his ego is large. He lives a very luxurious life style but it comes at the cost of his privacy and that’s pretty big IMO
The Stones rehearse for six weeks before they tour. Jagger runs and does physical exercise during those six weeks to get in shape.
I saw a picture somewhere keith was running cross country. I miss running 10 miles up hills n Arroyo's. Before the invasion of rich puffs. Anyway i move out of Santa Fe. But that old dude can run i ain't got no back n my spine has 7 disc gone nobody knows where but lots of pills i never heard great Doctors who knows i just might run again next to balling running was my favorite past time. I know i get carried away
He’s working out in different ways every day and is a Buddhist ❤️
Sorry that they were talking when you hear the best part of this the rack: the short guitar solo.
Keith said he had the idea watching a storm starting from his terrace.
Yes indeed
Mick sounds nice
amen to all
He doesn't mention the absolute killer note before the lead Vocal..the best part of the song.1:48
yeah that's a great note / pull off
Four words: Merry Clayton voice crack.
How cool is this?! 😘