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The Rolling Stones, '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'

Writer:Mick Jagger, Keith Richards

Producer: Andrew Loog Oldham

Released: May '65, London

14 weeks; No. 1

"It's the riff heard round the world," says Steve Van Zandt, guitarist for the E Street Band. "And it's one

of the earliest examples ofDylaninfluencing the Stones andthe Beatles the degree of cynicism, and

the idea of bringing more personal lyrics from the folk and blues tradition into popular music."

The riff came toKeith Richardsin a dream one night in May 1965, in his motel room in Clearwater,

Florida, on theRolling Stones'third U.S. tour. He woke up and grabbed a guitar and a cassette machine.Richards played the run of notes once, then fell back to sleep. "On the tape," he said later, "you can hear

me drop the pick, and the rest is snoring."

That spark in the night the riff that opens and defines "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" transformed

the rickety jump and puppy love of early rock & roll into rock. The primal temper of Richards' creation,

played through a Gibson Fuzz Box; the sneering dismissal inMick Jagger's lyrics; the strut of rhythm

guitarist Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts: It was the sound of a generation

impatient to inherit the Earth.

Two decades later, Jagger admitted that "Satisfaction" was "my view of the world, my frustration with

everything." Inspired by that riff and the title line, also Richards' idea, Jagger wrote the words a litany

of disgust with "America, its advertising syndrome, the constant barrage" in 10 minutes, by the motel

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pool the day after Richards' dream. They tried to cut the song a few days later, on May 10th at the Chess

studios in Chicago. Two days after that, they finished it at RCA Studios in Hollywood, with the vital

addition of that fuzz. "That riff needed to sustain itself," Richards said, "and Gibson had just brought out

these little boxes."

"Satisfaction" was rock of the Stones' own bold design although Richards may also have beendreaming of Chuck Berry that night in Clearwater. Jagger later suggested that Richards unconsciously got

the hook for "Satisfaction" from a line in Berry's 1955 single "30 Days"("I don't get no satisfaction

from the judge"). "It's not any way an English person would express it," Jagger noted. "I'm not saying that

he purposely nicked anything, but we played those records a lot."

Appears on:Out of Our Heads(ABKCO)

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The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time: Mick Jagger

The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time: Keith Richards

Photos: The Rolling Stones Live, 1964-2007

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