[newfreep]

Yep...and my 2nd favorite Stones song.

The first? “Gimme Shelter”

Arguably the greatest Rock and/or Roll song ever recorded. Amazing (and tragic) background story of Merry Clayton who did the female background & solo in that late night LA session.

For a Econ major in college, Mick did OK in the music business...

[I-ambush]

Well, don’t we all know a hard-rockin’ accountant!
I think that’s their best too, and the song that best captures the chaos brought about by the cultural revolution.

[Robert DeLong]

Clayton is best known for her 1969 duet with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter", though on some releases her name is misspelled as "Mary". According to Jagger, this collaboration came about due partially to chance. Jagger states that they thought "it'd be great to have a woman come do the…chorus." They called Clayton "randomly" in the middle of the night, and she showed up to the studio "in curlers" and did the verse in a few takes, which Jagger remarked is "pretty amazing." Clayton performed the duet while pregnant, and soon afterward suffered a miscarriage; some have attributed the miscarriage to the physical strain from her exertions during the recording. The Stones had asked Bonnie Bramlett to sing on the song, but Bramlett's husband Delaney refused to let her perform with the Stones. Along with her frequent partner Clydie King, Clayton also sang backing vocals on Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama".

Merry Clayton: Source Wikipedia