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Gimme Shelter

Certain Songs #2049: The Rolling Stones – “Gimme Shelter”

March 4, 2021 by Jim Connelly

Album: Let It Bleed
Year: 1969

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Objectively the greatest rock ‘n’ roll song ever recorded, “Gimme Shelter” is an apocalyptic maelstrom never ever gets old, no matter how many times you listen to it. And while it had roots in a rather mundane situation, it also somehow ended up symbolizing one of the greatest apocalyptic maelstroms in rock history, Altamont.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Gimme Shelter, Let It Bleed, Rolling Stones

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