Classic Rock - Robert Plant - USA (2019-12)

impressionable, looking at this man who’s forged

such a career in popular music inspired a deep

sense of gratitude from me. He told me how black

music had given him his life. This was a kid from

London, England, listening to these old blues

songs and deriving resonance from that. And

here I was, some kid from Brooklyn listening not

only to that kid from London, but also the music

that influenced him.

It still inspires me that the Stones are still out

there and rocking. It fills me with hope that I can

continue doing this, and keep putting food on the

table for my kids.

Corey Glover, Living Colour

Beast Of Burden

(From Some Girls, 1978)

I

love so much about that song. It has such

a great rhythm, and the words are so great,

and as a lyric writer that really resonates with

me. But best of all is the way that Jagger jives with

the melody.

We [Buckcherry] liked Beast Of Burden so much

that we did our own version on our covers record,

Covers : Volume One [in 2014].

Josh Todd, Buckcherry

Start Me Up

(From Tattoo You, 1981)

I

wouldn’t call myself a big fan of the Stones,

but I do like one song in particular, and it’s for

a special reason. Every time I hear Start Me Up

it makes me think of One Vision by Queen and

I wonder where did they get it from? And then

I listen to The Darkness’s I Believe In A Thing Called

Love and realise that that was inspired by One

Vision. Whenever I hear Start Me Up it leaves me

wondering how many other songs it inspired.

Maybe one day I will find out where the Stones

borrowed it from.

Tobias Sammet, Edguy/Avantasia

Under Cover Of The Night

(From Under Cover Of The Night, 1983)

A

s well as the music, which is great, the

political aspect of it appeals to me. It’s

about what was going on in Central

South America back then – and of course Mick

was also married to Bianca [who was born in

Nicaragua] then. That’s what the lyric was about:

‘All the young men, they’ve been rounded up/And sent to

camps back in the jungle/And people whisper, people

double-talk/Once proud fathers act so humble.’

I just love the sound of the guitars on it. There’s

something really deep and malevolent about

them. They turned me on when I first heard

the song.

After Under Cover Of The Night my other Stones

favourites would be Sympathy For The Devil and Not

Fade Away, in that order.

Steve Hogarth, Marillion

You Got Me Rocking

(From Voodoo Lounge, 1994)

I

saw the Rolling Stones play with Englebert

Humperdinck in Walthamstow in London,

but I must stress I was only ten years old.

Jagger was in shorts at the time, too.

You can’t beat that lyric: ‘I was a butcher cutting up

meat/My hands were bloody, I’m dying on my feet’.

When Pete Way [former UFO bassist] was in the

band, and I used to ask him to play that one for me

all of the time.

I love the Stones, but the unfortunate thing with

them is that you tend to forget they’re a rock

band. There’s so much publicity, gossip and

general hoo-hah about them, the fact that they’re

an R&B-f lavoured group can easily be forgotten.

That’s a shame. Put the media circus aside and

they’re one of the best white R&B bands this

country has ever known.

Phil Mogg, UFO

Doom And Gloom

(New song from the 50th-anniversary collection

GRRR!, 2012)

I

’ve picked Jumpin’ Jack Flash or any of their
other classics, and Doom And Gloom gets me
up on the table just like all the rest. Whenever
we play a show, that song is part of our warm-up
music. You hear it backstage as you’re getting
in the mood to go on, and it makes you think:
“Fuck me, the Stones have still got juice in
the tank.”
GET Joel O’Keeffe, Airbourne

TY

Elder statesmen but still

rockin’ and rollin’.

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