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The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter [View all]
The is a harshly beautiful song inspired in part by the Vietnam war. I was a young child at the end of that war, with many memories of that time, but nothing likes those of age experiencing it firsthand. Quoting Mick Jagger about this song:
Well, it’s a very rough, very violent era. The Vietnam War. Violence on the screens, pillage, and burning,” he said. “And Vietnam was not war as we knew it in the conventional sense. The thing about Vietnam was that it wasn’t like World War II, it wasn’t like Korea, and it wasn’t like the Gulf War. It was a real nasty war, and people didn’t like it. People objected, and people didn’t want to fight it. The people that were there weren’t doing well.
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