People objected, and people didn’t want to fight it…(Gimme Shelter is) a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. It was a real nasty war, and people didn’t like it. The thing about Vietnam was that it wasn’t like World War II, and it wasn’t like Korea, and it wasn’t like the Gulf War. And Vietnam was not war as we knew it in the conventional sense. Violence on the screens, pillage and burning. Well, it’s a very rough, very violent era. In a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Jagger said: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards drew their inspiration for ‘Gimme Shelter’ directly from the Vietnam War. He found things that other people wouldn’t think of finding in there. He had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. Although it has enjoyed reincarnations under The Dave Mathews Band, The Grateful Dead and U2, Hendrix gave it his stamp with an iconic performance in London on 21 January 1968.ĭylan has described his reaction to hearing Hendrix’s version: Originally written, recorded and released by Bob Dylan – to a positive reception – ‘All Along the Watchtower’ is now best identified with Jimi Hendrix. All Along the Watchtower – Bob Dylan / Jimi Hendrix Rob Weinberg asks the big questions to Kevin Ruane, Professor of Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University. But how did the war come about? Who were its major players? Why did the actions and attitudes of US presidents differ? And how did Americans at home shape the outcome of the war. By 1964 America was deeply embroiled in a conflict in Vietnam that would, over the next decade, claim millions of lives including almost 60,000 US servicemen.

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