Top Inspirational Artists - Number 6

/6. Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

With music that sounds as fresh and vital as the day it was released, The Rolling Stones are rock's greatest survivors - a band whose fan base has never died and if anything has grown stronger as the years have passed. Their music has incredible energy and vitality but they also have the range to convey a wide quality of emotions as they demonstrated that rock music could be both experimental and widespread with a mix of blues and soul helping to keep their iconic sound both striking, colourful and dynamic.
For this reason they have created an astounding body of work which spreads across a wide array of genres and which has influenced countless artists who have also made edgy, experimental rock music such as Primal Scream, Roxy Music, Guns N Roses and Nirvana among many others.
Gimme Shelter is like a rock opera, a song which is both harmonic and heavy, a beuatiful combination of blues and heart pounding rock n roll and a prime example of the broad nature of the rock music that they helped to both create and influence.