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I Used To Play Saturday Night Shows With Different Little Groups. If I Could Get A Show, I Would Do It. I Used To Do Mad Things - I Used To Go And Do These Shows And Go On My Knees And Roll On The Ground - When I Was 15,16 Years Old. And My Parents Were Extremely Disapproving Of It All. Because It Was Just Not Done. This Was For Very Low-class People, Remember. Rock & Roll Singers Weren't Educated People

Americans Get Very Simple Explanations Of What Happens To Them.

People Don't Bother To Check With Anything Anymore. They Just Like To Speculate In Print. We Like Fact-checking!

When Gimme Shelter Was Recorded, Early '69 Or Something, It Was A Time Of War And Tension, So That's Reflected In This Tune. It's Still Wheeled Out When Big Storms Happen, As They Did The Other Week. It's Been Used A Lot To Evoke Natural Disaster.

I Always Think It's Better To Be Not Taking Drugs Or Drinking Or Anything. That's Not Saying I've Never Done It Because I Have. But I Sort Of Learned I Think After A While There Has Been - It Didn't Take Me That Long To Realize That It Wasn't A Good Thing.