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Merry Clayton (born December 25, 1948) is an American soul and gospel singer. She contributed vocals to numerous tracks and worked with many major recording artists for decades, including a duet with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter". [1]
"Gimme Shelter" [a] is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. Written by Jagger–Richards , it is the opening track of the band's 1969 album Let It Bleed . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The song covers the brutal realities of war , including murder , rape and fear .
In 1969, The Rolling Stones originally asked Bonnie to sing a duet with Mick Jagger on their song "Gimme Shelter", but Delaney refused to let her perform with the Stones. [7] The Stones then asked soul and gospel singer Merry Clayton to sing on the track. It remains the most prominent contribution to a Rolling Stones track by a female vocalist. [8]
EXCLUSIVE: Gimme Shelter, directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwein, is widely considered one of the greatest music documentaries of all time. The film, which chronicled the Rolling ...
Lesson of Love also won a 1996 Nashville Music Award ("Nammy") for Best Contemporary Christian Album. Cleveland was the only female vocalist to sing lead on a song ("Gimme Shelter") for the television special, Stone Country: A Tribute to the Rolling Stones on the defunct The Nashville Network (TNN).
Early pressings of the album (including record-club pressings) simply state the band's name as "Grand Funk" on the front cover and spine, but have the full name on the record labels. The 2003 re-mastered version of this release has a total time of 79:08, and was squeezed down to one disc.
"Gimme Shelter" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) - 8:44: Recorded at Shea Stadium, Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, New York on July 9, 1971. "Into the Sun" - 9:50: Recorded at The Cobo Arena, Jefferson Ave, Detroit, Michigan on the April 30, 1971.
20 Feet from Stardom is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Morgan Neville [3] and produced by Gil Friesen, a music industry executive whose curiosity to know more about the lives of background singers inspired the making of the film. [4]