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"Gimme Shelter" in several movie soundtracks, and is the first track off the Stones '69 lp "Let it Bleed" and wasn't released as a single. This track covers topics such as war, murder, rape and fear. It features vocals by American singer Merry Clayton. This track wasn't released as a single. Inspiration and recording - Gimme Shelter was written by the Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, the band's primary songwriting team. Richards began working on the songs signature opening riff in London while Jagger was away filming Performance with Richards' then-girlfriend, Anita Pallenburg. In his autobiography Life, Richards revealed the tension of the song was inspired by his jealousy of seeing the relationship between Pallenburg and Jagger, and his suspicions of an affair between them. Of Let it Bleeds bleak world view, Jagger said in a 1995 interview - Well, it's a very rough, very violent era. The Vietnam War. Violence on the screens, pillage and burning. And Vietnam was not war as we knew it in the conventional sense. The thing about Vietnam, it wasn't like WW2, and it wasn't like Korea, and it wasn't like the Gulf War. It was a real nasty war, and people didn't like it. People objected, and people didn't want to fight it. That's a kinda end-of-the-world, really. It's apocalypse; the whole records like that. The songs initial inspiration was not Vietnam or social unrest, however Richards seeing people scurrying for shelter from a sudden rain storm. According to him: I had been sitting by the window of my friend Robert Fraser's apartment on Front street in London with an acoustic guitar when suddenly the sky went completely black and an incredible monsoon came down. It was just people running about looking for shelter -- that was the germ of the idea. We went further into it until it became, you know, rape and murder are "just a shot away". The recording features guest vocals by Merry Clayton, recorded at a last-minute late-night
recording session in Los Angeles during the mixing phase, arranged by her friend and record producer Jack Nitzsche. After the first verse is sung by Jagger, Clayton enters and they share the next three verses. A harmonica solo by Jagger and a guitar solo by Richards follows. Then, with great energy Clayton sings "Rape, murder! It's just a shot away! It's just a shot away!", almost screaming the final stanza. They finish with repeats of " It's just a kiss away". When speaking of her inclusion in the recording, Jagger stated in the 2003 book According to the Rolling Stones, that the Rolling Stones producer Jimmy Miller thought of having a female singer on the track and told fellow producer Nitzsche to contact one.
Summoned from bed around midnight by Nitzsche, Clayton about four months pregnant -- made her recording in just a few takes and then returned home to bed. It remains the most prominent contribution to a Rolling Stones track by a female vocalist. At about 2:59 in the song, Clayton's voice cracks under the strain; on during the second refrain on the word "shot", then on the third refrain on the word "murder", after which Jagger is faintly heard exclaiming "Woo!" in response to Clayton's powerful delivery. Upon returning home, Clayton suffered a miscarriage, attributed by some sources.Merry Clayton's name was erroneously written on the original release, appearing as "Mary". Her name is also listed as "Mary" on the 2002 Let It Bleed remastered CD.
The song was recorded in London at Olympic Studios in February and March 1969; the vocals were recorded in Los Angeles at Sunset Sound Recorders and Elektra Studios in October and November that same year. Nicky Hopkins played piano, Jimmy Miller played percussion, Charlie Watts played drums, Bill Wyman played bass, Jagger played harmonica and sang backup vocals with Richards and Clayton. Guitarist Brian Jones was present during the early sessions but did not contribute[citation needed], Richards being credited with both rhythm and lead guitars on the album sleeve. For the recording, Richards used an Australian-made Maton SE777, a large single-cutaway hollowbody guitar, which he had previously used on "Midnight Rambler". The guitar barely survived the recording before literally falling apart. "On the very last note of "Gimmie Shelter," Richards told Guitar World in 2002, "the whole neck fell off". You can hear it on the original take.
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