The Vocal on This 1969 Classic Was SO INTENSE—it CAUSED the Singer SERIOUS HARM! | Professor of Rock

Coming up… the story behind one of the most amazing, impromptu vocal performances of the Rock Era. Guest vocalist Merry Clayton on the Rolling Stones's Gimme Shelter was so spellbinding it stunned normally nonplussed singer Mick Jagger. Some sources claim that the performance was exerted with so much conviction and power, it actually caused the singer serious harm. It’s an emotional and inspiring episode… Gimme Shelter is such a landmark song that even people who can’t stand the famous yet polarizing band behind it, still love this song. Keith Richards knew the song would be great when he wrote it on his guitar while watching people moving in and out of a rainstorm. And even though it’s one of the Stones's most-played songs ever it was never released as a single. The story is next on Professor of Rock.

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“No rock record, before or since, has ever so completely captured the sense of palpable dread that hung over its era.” Those are the feelings of biographer Steven Davis expressed in his book Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of The Rolling Stones. The record Davis was referring to is The Rolling Stones’s haunting 1969 masterpiece…. ”Gimme Shelter.”

I absolutely share Davis’s passion for this incredibly riveting docudrama of music theater. The “Gimme Shelter” experience begins with that soul-chilling Keith Richards guitar riff… Followed by a searing Merry Clayton howl echoing in the shadows…. a rattlesnake death scrape from a guiro played by producer Jimmy Miller.

The pulsation of Charlie Watts drums- gyrating with Bill Wyman’s bass line- that is joined by the subtle melancholy of a Nicky Hopkins piano. The scene has been set for the entrance of rock’s premier frontman… Mick Jagger… who swaggers in like an angry street-fighter to issue a warning for those who have the courage to heed: “Ooh, a storm is threatening my very life today….If I don’t get some shelter…I’m gonna fade away."

“Gimme Shelter” is about the children of a society writhe with war, murder, fear, and crimes against women. The creation of this epic track began with the uneasiness of a jealous lover….

Anita Pallenberg was a very incestuous figure within The Rolling Stones's menage. She was an actress & model, who was regarded as a style icon, and an “IT girl” of 60s and 70s fashion. Pallenberg was first romantically linked to Stones founder Brian Jones- who physically abused her.

After rescuing her from one of Jones’s assaults while vacationing in Morocco, Pellenberg turned her affection to her protector... Keith Richards. Richards & Pallenberg were a couple from 1967 to 1980, although they never married.