Here the daisies guard you from every harm Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyesĪnd when again they open, the sun will rise. Coriolanus Snow also listens to the song and finds it soothing, until mockingjays pick up the melody, as he finds them disturbing. Lucy Gray Baird sings this song to Maude Ivory, having sung it to her in the past when she had croup. Katniss also found herself musing on the words of this song many years later as she watched her own children play in the Meadow in District 12. The words are easy, soothing, and calming. At first, Katniss did not know what to sing, but then remembered a lullaby she would sing to her sister Prim when she was ill. Because of her love of music, Rue's last request was to hear Katniss sing. tour climaxing with the infamous Altamont concert near San Francisco.' Deep in the Meadow' (also known as ' Rue's Lullaby') is a song sung by Katniss to Rue as the latter was nearing death ( Marvel had speared her in the stomach). Gimme Shelter* is also the title to the Maysles brothers' 1970 documentary film of the Stones' 1969 U.S. President Barack Obama told Rolling Stone in an interview while campaigning for his first term that the Stones were one his musical heroes (along with Stevie Wonder) and “Gimme Shelter” was his favourite Stones song. Grace Potter also had the honors in 2015. The 50th anniversary tour had some special appearances by Lady Gaga ( New Jersey), Florence Welch ( London) and Mary J. tours as a straight ahead hard rock song without female accompaniment, it didn’t return to the setlist until 1989 when Clayton’s vocal turn usually went to Lisa Fischer. It would be one of those moments along the lines of ‘I hear a girl on this track – get one on the phone.’ Clayton, pregnant at the time, reportedly suffered a miscarriage soon after the session. The use of the female voice was producer Jimmy Miller’s idea.

Jagger explained in the 2003 book According To… The Rolling Stones: The female vocals were sung by session singer Merry Clayton. We went further into it until it became, you know, rape and murder are ‘just a shot away’.” It was just people running about looking for shelter - that was the germ of the idea. “I had been sitting by the window of my friend Robert Fraser’s apartment on Mount Street in London with an acoustic guitar when suddenly the sky went completely black and an incredible monsoon came down. However, the song’s inspiration was not Vietnam or social unrest, but Keith Richards seeing people scurrying for shelter from a sudden London rainstorm. It’s apocalypse the whole record’s like that.” People objected, and people didn’t want to fight it…” As for the song itself, he concluded, “That’s a kind of end-of-the-world song, really.

It was a real nasty war, and people didn’t like it. The thing about Vietnam was that it wasn’t like World War II, and it wasn’t like Korea, and it wasn’t like the Gulf War. And Vietnam was not war as we knew it in the conventional sense. Violence on the screens, pillage and burning.

“Well, it’s a very rough, very violent era. It paints a bleak world view inspired by the Vietnam war, as put by Mick Jagger: “Gimme Shelter” is the opening track of the Rolling Stones’s 1969 album Let It Bleed (where it was actually spelled “Gimmie Shelter”, but the more accurate spelling was adopted afterwards).

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