WCSX Classic Cuts : You Got Me Rocking
WCSX Classic Cuts
The Rolling Stones: “You Got Me Rocking”
The Hook: Started out as a Keith-penned rock and roll piano number, but other elements found their way in as they went along.https://wcsx.com/?p=457735&preview=true
Album: Voodoo Lounge
Year: 1993
Writers: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Stats: Peaked at number-two on Billboard’s Album Rock Tracks chart.
Background: Keith Richards says he was the prime mover on “You Got Me Rocking,” but that the character of the song changed from his original vision as it went along.
Keith Richards on writing “You Got Me Rocking.” OC:…for that. :25
“I wrote it on piano. It was so easy, it was like a Little Richard thing. And then when I took it to guitar I really got interested in it, because before that I was really doing a parody of something like rock ‘n roll piano music. But then it sort of went Celtic on me in a way — it had some of those strange drone notes — and it sort of took on another life and then Charlie got into it with this sort of ‘Going to a Go-Go’ bit, this great tom-tom, and I’m a sucker for that.”
