Title: Gimme Shelter
Content:  "Gimme Shelter" was written by the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, the band's primary songwriting team. Richards began working on the song's signature opening riff in London while Jagger was away filming Performance with Richards' then-girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg. In his autobiography Life, Richards revealed that the tension of the song was inspired by his jealousy at seeing the relationship between Pallenberg and Jagger, and his suspicions of an affair between them. As released, the song begins with Richards performing a guitar intro, soon joined by Jagger's lead vocal. Of Let It Bleeds bleak world view, Jagger said 
Title: Gimme Shelter
Content: Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica ; Keith Richards – backing vocals, lead and rhythm guitars ; Bill Wyman – bass ; Charlie Watts – drums Nicky Hopkins – piano ; Jimmy Miller – güiro, maracas ; Merry Clayton – lead and backing vocals According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon: The Rolling Stones Additional personnel
Title: Gimme Shelter (album)
Content: 1) "Jumpin' Jack Flash" ; 2) "Love in Vain" (Robert Johnson) ; 3) "Honky Tonk Women" ; 4) "Street Fighting Man" ; 5) "Sympathy for the Devil" ; 6) "Gimme Shelter" 1) "Under My Thumb" ; 2) "Time Is on My Side" (Norman Meade) ; 3) "I've Been Loving You Too Long" (Otis Redding, Jerry Butler) ; 4) "Fortune Teller" (Naomi Neville) ; 5) "Lady Jane" ; 6) "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" All tracks composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards except where noted. Side one Side two
Title: Gimme Shelter
Content:  Street in London with an acoustic guitar when suddenly the sky went completely black and an incredible monsoon came down. It was just people running about looking for shelter – that was the germ of the idea. We went further into it until it became, you know, rape and murder are 'just a shot away'." The recording features guest vocals by Merry Clayton, recorded at a last-minute late-night recording session during the mixing phase, arranged by her friend and record producer Jack Nitzsche. After the first verse is sung by Jagger, Merry Clayton enters and they share the next three verses. A 
Title: Gimme Shelter
Content:  Jagger is faintly heard exclaiming "Woo!" in response to Clayton's powerful delivery. Upon returning home, Clayton suffered a miscarriage, attributed by some sources to her exertions during the recording. Merry Clayton's name was erroneously written on the original release, appearing as 'Mary'. Her name is also listed as 'Mary' on the 2002 Let It Bleed remastered CD. The song was recorded in London at Olympic Studios in February and March 1969; the vocals were recorded in Los Angeles at Sunset Sound Recorders and Elektra Studios in October and November that same year. Nicky Hopkins played piano, Jimmy Miller played percussion, Charlie Watts 
Title: Gimme Shelter
Content: Grand Funk Railroad recorded the song and included it on their 1971 Survival album. It was released as a single and reached 61 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. ; U2 covered the song at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame benefit concert on 30 October 2009, with Mick Jagger sharing lead vocals with Bono and featuring the Black Eyed Peas members Fergie, singing Merry Clayton's vocal part, and will.i.am, playing piano and synthesizer. ; Paolo Nutini covered the song and was asked by Mick Jagger and Ben Affleck to perform the track for a documentary of the same name on the plight of the millions of people displaced from their homes as a result of fighting in the Sudanese region. ; The Sisters of Mercy, as a B-side to the single "Temple of Love", in 1983. 
Title: Gimme Shelter
Content:  solo by Jagger and guitar solo by Richards follow. Then, with great energy, Clayton repeatedly sings "Rape, murder! It's just a shot away! It's just a shot away!", almost screaming the final stanza. She and Jagger then repeat the line "It's just a shot away" and finish with repeats of "It's just a kiss away". When speaking of her inclusion in the recording, Jagger stated in the 2003 book According to the Rolling Stones that the Rolling Stones' producer Jimmy Miller thought of having a female singer on the track and told fellow producer Jack Nitzsche to contact one: "The use of 
Title: Gimme Shelter
Content:  "Gimme Shelter" is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones and is the opening track off their 1969 album Let it Bleed. The song covers topics of war, murder, rape and fear. Greil Marcus, writing for Rolling Stone magazine at the time of its release, praised the song, stating that the band has "never done anything better". Although the first word was spelled "Gimmie" on the album, subsequent recordings by the band and other musicians have made "Gimme" the customary spelling. "Gimme Shelter" has placed in various positions on many "best of/greatest" lists including those by Rolling Stone and Acclaimed Music. In 2021 it was ranked at number 13 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time list.
Title: Gimme Shelter
Content:  drums, Bill Wyman played bass, Jagger played harmonica and sang backup vocals with Richards and Clayton. Guitarist Brian Jones was present during the early sessions but did not contribute, Richards being credited with both rhythm and lead guitars on the album sleeve. For the recording, Richards used an Australian-made Maton SE777, a large single-cutaway hollowbody guitar, which he had previously used on "Midnight Rambler". The guitar barely survived the recording before literally falling apart. "[O]n the very last note of 'Gimmie Shelter,'" Richards told Guitar World in 2002, "the whole neck fell off. You can hear it on the original take."
Title: Merry Clayton
Content:  is best known for her 1969 duet with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter" (though on some releases her name is misspelled as "Mary"). According to Jagger, the collaboration happened partially by chance: Jagger stated that the band thought, "it'd be great to have a woman come do the… chorus." They called Clayton "randomly" in the middle of the night, and she showed up to the studio "in curlers" and contributed her parts in a few takes, which Jagger remarked was "pretty amazing." Clayton performed her parts while pregnant, soon afterward suffering a miscarriage; some have attributed 

Question: who sings gimme shelter with mick jagger?
Answer: Merry Clayton.