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.

The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter