The guitarist Mick Jagger said inspired every member of The Rolling Stones: “An uncle and a teacher”

All members of The Rolling Stones have praised the guitar-playing talents of Howlin' Wolf's sidekick, Hubert Sumlin, saying ...
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Keith Richards Recalls Making the Rolling Stones’ ‘Gimme Shelter’

Of "Gimme Shelter," for example, Richards said that the song's intense lyrics — which, years later, seem to sum up a period of armed conflict and overall social turmoil — weren't initially any part of ...
Rolling Stone

The Underachievers Sample the Rolling Stones’ ‘Gimme Shelter’

Late-1960s violence inspired The Rolling Stones‘ “Gimme Shelter”: It was written four days after Meredith Hunter was murdered at the Altamont festival in 1969. “Rape, murder, it’s just a shot away,” ...