{"id":5839,"date":"2014-02-04T16:34:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T00:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2015-07-16T18:17:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T02:17:26","slug":"did-the-rolling-stones-almost-not-release-i-cant-get-no-satisfaction-because-keith-richards-thought-it-sounded-like-another-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2014\/02\/04\/did-the-rolling-stones-almost-not-release-i-cant-get-no-satisfaction-because-keith-richards-thought-it-sounded-like-another-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the Rolling Stones Almost Not Release “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” Because Keith Richards Thought It Sounded Like Another Song?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the movie urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

MUSIC URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: The Rolling Stones almost did not release “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” because Keith Richards felt that the famous riff sounded too similar to another song.<\/p>\n

Let’s say that you wake up in the middle of the night and you have a great beat in your head. Would you think that you just came up with a really cool riff, or would you think that you must be remembering a song you heard somewhere?<\/p>\n

I think most of us would tend toward the latter, but as it turns out, even famous musicians sometimes think that are in the latter category, as seen with the interesting case of Keith Richards and “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”<\/p>\n

In one of the most famous stories about rock ‘n’ roll (and one of the coolest), Keith Richards woke up one night with the famous guitar riff to “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” in his head, along with the words “I can’t get no satisfaction.”<\/p>\n

He got his tape recorder and recorded the riff and the words and then went back to bed.<\/p>\n

He then brought the song to his writing partner, Mick Jagger, who wrote the rest of the lyrics and worked out the melody (remember, all they had was “da da…da da da da”) and they completed the song that would soon become the signature hit of the Rolling Stones, and one of the most famous songs in rock ‘n’ roll history.<\/p>\n

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