The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter

“Rolling Stone magazine at the time of its release, said: “The Stones have never done anything better.”

Its  December, 1969 and The Rolling Stones just released their EIGTH studio album by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States.

Mostly written by The Stones’ guitarist Keith Richards, using worn out Triumph amplifiers to get a distinctive sound, Jagger sings about needing shelter from this “storm”, and the social and political hardships faced during the time. “There was the war in Vietnam, race riots, and Charles Manson.”

Keith Richards goes on to say; “I wrote ‘Gimmie Shelter’ on a stormy day, sitting in Robert Fraser’s apartment on Mount Street.  There was this incredible storm over London, so I got into that mode, just looking out of Robert’s window and looking at all these people with their umbrellas being blown out of their grasp and running like hell. My thought was storms on other people’s minds, not mine. It just happened to hit the moment.”

There are no signs of the Rolling Stones stopping any time soon, and I can’t WAIT to see them this summer when they hit their national tour!

+Gimme Shelter lyrics below+

Oh, a storm is threat’ning
My very life today
If I don’t get some shelter
Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away
War, children, it’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
War, children, it’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away

Ooh, see the fire is sweepin’
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way

War, children, it’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
War, children, it’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away

The floods is threat’ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I’m gonna fade away

War, children, it’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it’s just a kiss away