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{{Image|Clearwater|jpg|The Gulf Beach Motel, Clearwater, FL: Site of a good morning’s work, yesteryear.}} | |||
}}''[[(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction]]'' is a song by the [[Rolling Stones]], released in 1965. It was written by [[Mick Jagger]] and [[Keith Richards]]. Keith Richards claims to have written the music for ''[[Satisfaction]]'' in his sleep. He had no idea he had written it. When he woke up he discovered he had recorded 30 seconds of music and 44 minutes of snoring on a Philips cassette player, but that 30 seconds contained a rough version of the famous guitar riff — which Richards intended to replace with a horn section, but never got round to it — that drives the song. | |||
Mick Jagger, by Richards’ account, dashed off the lyrics to ''Satisfaction'' while lounging by a | Mick Jagger, by Richards’ account, dashed off the lyrics to ''Satisfaction'' in ten minutes while lounging by a motel pool in Clearwater, Florida, surrounded by groupies. I expect it was a bit of a serial shag-fest.<ref>[https://www.tampabay.com/things-to-do/music/50-years-ago-the-rolling-stones-song-satisfaction-was-born-in-clearwater/2227921/ Reference]. According to [[Bill Wyman]], it was the Gulf Beach Motel (pictured). I may be making up the bit about groupies but it adds to the story and seems quite plausible.</ref> | ||
Why is this rock staple showing up in the pages of the [[Jolly Contrarian]]? To illustrate the principle of [[rent-seeking]], readers, in this case delivered by the medium of [[intellectual property]] law. For notwithstanding the paucity of effort — | Why is this rock staple showing up in the pages of the [[Jolly Contrarian]]? To illustrate the principle of [[rent-seeking]], readers, in this case delivered by the medium of [[intellectual property]] law. For notwithstanding the abject ''paucity'' of effort from all concerned — Richards apparently not even ''conscious''; Jagger at the very least wilfully disregarding the clangorous irony of his situation for the quarter of an hour it took him to pen the lyrics — the song not only shot the [[Rolling Stones]] to stardom, but has continued to accrue them a king’s ransom from royalties in the fifty-five years that have since elapsed. | ||
Not bad for fifteen minutes’ | Information is hard to come by, but I don’t think I’m too many orders of magnitude out when I estimate that ''Satisfaction'' has earned Jagger and Richards tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars. | ||
Not bad for fifteen minutes’ “work”. | |||
==Karma ’s a bitch== | |||
Of course the stones themselves are not immune to their imitators comma and many artists have forced long careers basically copying Jagger and Richards’ simple formula. | |||
Take for very good example angel slang and their song so sorry, which sounds like something Mick Jagger and Keith Richards would come up with in a weekend if they were locked in a house together and told not to come out until they had finished. | |||
Which is, of course what happened in 2020. | |||
<youtube>https://youtu.be/3cqTx4Eb-W8</youtube> | |||
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