Friday On My Mind 39: Gimme Shelter
Posted in 1960s, Friday On My Mind, Music at 14:00 on 31 December 2010
This wasn’t a single (so falls outwith the artificial borders of my category – which admittedly I have breached at least three times already) but there is a link to this time of year, albeit tenuous.
The first time I heard this was on a BBC retrospective of music from the 60s, aired I think on Hogmanay 1969. As I recall Mick Jagger was prancing around with some floaty bits of black cloth which were attached to his shirt flying about as he moved.*
The intro for me conjures up weird, not to mention approaching menace. Much more so than Sympathy For The Devil.
“Ooooh, ooooh, ooooh.” “Ooooh, ooooh, ooooh.”
*Edited (2/12/19) to add. This seems to be that performance. Bits of red cloth too I see.
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