837 The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” 1965

“On the night of May 9, 1965, Keith awoke in a hotel room in Clearwater, Florida, with a riff running through his mind, and he quickly recorded it on a cassette tape.” Richards: “‘Satisfaction’ was the biggest hit we’ve ever had and it just came boing bang crash, and it was on tape before I felt it. People say they write songs, but in a way you’re more the medium. I feel like all the songs in the world are just floating around, it’s just a matter of, like, an antenna, or whatever you pick up. So many uncanny things have happened. A whole song just appears from nowhere in five minutes, the whole structure, and you haven’t worked at all” (Victor Bockris, Keith Richards: The Biography, 1998). Listed on the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

The Rolling Stones “Satisfaction”