Maybe just say u went to school n want to re connect. Good luck.. I can remember first time I heard Gimme Shelter.. She comments on how she hated singing on Sweet Home Alabama because she knew it was anything but.
She says she could barely hide her contempt. U will feel their terror.. Play it. She is a genius w her voice. Easy enough to hear if you pay attention.
You can hear it on the recording on this site. Merry Clayton, you have been a ghost in my life until now. What incredible talent …. Ripping your guts out! Just ripping your guts out on the very first takes, with strangers, your own fragility waived. Haunted me for 50 years or more. Let the cry go on! I would greatly appreciate any info of whether the Merry Clayton version,with Mick , gimme shelter is on any dvd, out there and can be bought,covering that concert,if not is there a cd with that song on it.
Come On now. She simply miscarried. It just makes the backstory better. But that pregnant? Might have been the hormones and memory. It happens. So much death swirling around the Stones that year. Let It Bleed, indeed….
Oh, man…. Her name is Merry and she was born on Christmas day That is so cool, I love it! You should catch 20 Feet From Stardom. Look at the music made during that time, and in most turbulent times since then. Not in the mainstream anyway. Kudos to Mick for not being threatened at sharing the vocals. Owned the record.
Heard it times, times? I bet she had seen plenty on those tours with Ray Charles etc, something was in that performance besides the words scribbled down. At about 3. Not you. My condolences, Ms. Clayton, for the sorrow that followed. Sorry guy! As has been commented, the miscarriage following the gig is news.
I think it is safe to say that figuratively speaking her performance put this song on the MAP!!! I see that someone compared her performance to Shakespeare and that is not an overstatement. Great work Merry!! Wow, what a story, what a lady! I entered college the year Gimme Shelter was released. We all felt the storm rising and the moral conflicts and the disillusionments. For giving voice to all this Merry Clayton deserves our homage.
Great story! Check it out. The short of it is that Mick wrote the lines on the spot about the recording engineer Joey Zagarino. My sincerest condolences to Merry, I just read that she lost her baby after that session. Well, the story gets sadder. I just read Merry had both legs amputated last year after a car accident. How sad…. I still get chills listening to her, more than 40 years later. Incredible, and so sad that such an iconic piece of music is attached to such a tragedy.
What the hell are you talking about? Ripping her guts out on the first take? Like its somehow a better track bc she lost the baby? Let the cry go on???? What are you babbling about? I mean, really? She was in the business but had no idea who the Stones were? Just read in December Jazz Times that fantastic vocalist Merry Clayton lost both legs in a car accident. How tragic. She had just received an award for her part in the outstanding Doco 20 Feet From Stardom.
Congratulations and. Go get a real life. No-one is worried about their eternal future as a result of listening to the Stones except you and your sad and pathetic god botherers. In Mick and Keith were approaching the crest of the greatest 10 year run if songwriting in the 20th century. Yet, you take umbrage with Jagger not knowing who she was?
Stop being a dummy…. She was a pregnant background singer…. Now apologize to to mick and Keith, douchebag. The intro alone froze me. Emmaretta had been dating Keith when they brought her into the studio after they had all been crashing and partying at Stephen Stills house in the L.
Oh yeah, you know why Mick Taylor has played as a guest from to about ? Poor Merry Clayton has had a tough life. I just hope she feels loved. Gimme Shelter was a magic track because of her. Her voice helps make it what it is. Wishing everyone better days. But I hope my words join the chorus of hearts and souls found on pages like this site:. Merry, I fear the time for too many great folk comes after their passing.
I pray this story lives on in the gift you and your family gave the world through The Rolling Stones. I pray it continues to change the world like it did for me today. I am now 61 and have just found out that she sang those famous lyrics. I cant stop listening to the isolated track. It is out of this frickin world and gives me joy each time I hear it. I have shared it a hundred times to friends. If the group knew of her loss, they should have waited a couple of years.
After a year or two, they should have re-approached her to re-record, and then mass distributed the art. They should have respected her grief, especially since the song was supposedly sensitive to human needs in time of crisis. They put a price on her dignity and sold it. What a story! I say that after asking a doctor too. The story is amazing enough without that bit. Sad to have the loss of a child. Hard to blame the loss on working that historic recording.
Are you serious? Instead of alarming anyone you come off like a blithering idiot.. The truth is many people do not know these cutting wonderful lyrics. I so agree with this powerful statement. This song has taken on new life for me after reading this story. God bless you Merry!!
You mean Mick and Keith influencing kids into Satanism? I think any normal person would sluff it off as just another religion. Keep Merry in your thoughts ,prayers ,good juju …that accident in cost her the amputation of both legs at the knees.
She is now What a tragedy! At least it is coming out now. To Merry Clayton, you are simply Da Bomb! I am also from New Orleans so I know where you got that soul! Rock on girl!!!
A professional musician not knowing exactly who the Rolling Stones were during this period in time, would not have been unusual. Pop artists were far greater in both number and diversity back then, plus, Ms. The Rolling Stones were popular among teens and some young twenty-somethings, but nowhere near as widely popular across many demographics as they became, just a few years later.
At that point, they were viewed as cheeky and rough young upstarts from across the pond, upsetting the American pop musical apple cart. Plus, it was a different era for pop music and all music. I miss being able to turn on the radio, and with a few clicks of the dial, hear a huge variety of musical genres and many diverse sounding artists, played one right behind the other.
Sadly, a group like the Rolling Stones, if emerging today, would not garner much airplay and would have a tough time catching on. Easily my favorite female vocal performance of all time, you can tell she held absolutely nothing back, I get emotional every time I hear it. I strongly doubt that the miscarriage had anything to do with her singing on this song. If this really happened, there would be very few babies born. God Bless Mary ,God has blessed the Stones may he keep blessing them.
This song wold be nothing without your powerful voice and the feelings you transmit. And I feel wonderful. I feel blessed. Andrew Dansby covers culture and entertainment, both local and national, for the Houston Chronicle.
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But, as she recently told the Queen Latifah Show , at one point she started thinking about all the bad news that she read in the newspapers every day, and it was as if something took a hold of her. She sang them for the first time. Then she had to sit down because of the weight of the child she was carrying, and she did a second and third take. The rest is history. It was the most successful performance of her career, and it would become one of the most popular rock tracks ever. But Merry would remember that night in a very different way, for what happened later.
She returned home and had a miscarriage. Legend has it that being out that night and making such an effort to sing that part had played a decisive role.
It was as if it were a sacrifice that she could never accept, until she was forced by events and by the people around her. In , seventeen years later, she told the Los Angeles Times :. I turned it around. Most probably not. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.
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