Talk:Gimmie Shelter

The "fact" that Merry Clayton had a miscarriage BECAUSE of her intense singing is extremely dubious. It seems clear she had a miscarriage after the session, but the causality is doubtful at best. So I've changed the wording in the article. Shrug.

Requested Move

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I didn't want to do this without making sure first, but this song is called "Gimme Shelter", not "Gimmie". Everyone agree?

67.180.164.72 06:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)


 * No--it's spelled "Gimmie" on the album. Miss Dark 12:12, 4 May 2007 (UTC)


 * As of Amazon.com, Gracenote and the Let It Bleed page on Wikipedia, it's spelt "Gimme". Im.a.lumberjack 22:22, 4 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I just checked the back cover of the album, and it's spelled "Gimmie". --PEJL 22:35, 4 June 2007 (UTC)


 * The only image I can find of a record label is Merry Clayton's version. All that proves is she spelt it "Gimme Shelter". It would be good to have an image in the article of the song title shown on the album because this is going to be a common spelling change by passing editors who think that "Gimmie" is misspelled. Masaruemoto 00:24, 5 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay the Stones have released several albums with "Gimme Shelter" used as the title: the live albums No Security and Live Licks among them. While a move would not be completely wrong, "Gimmie" is the song's original title on the original album, even if it is a mistake. I would say keep the article where it is. Stan weller 00:57, 5 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I disagree. It says "This article is about the Rolling Stones' song." It doesn't say "This article is about the the lead-off track of the Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed." Even if we proceed on the unproven assumption that the spelling on the album was deliberate, all we have in favor of "Gimmie" is a spelling that the songwriters themselves have clearly since discarded - and perhaps a legal document in the British copyright office. But in favor of "Gimme" we have the songwriters' current spelling, all the cover versions, the film, and 30+ years of common usage. So I say change the title to "Gimme" with a prominent mention in the article of the variant spelling attributed to the original recording. Ribonucleic 20:45, 6 June 2007 (UTC)


 * The first sentence does read something like "This article is about the Rolling Stones' song" and "This article is about the the lead-off track of the Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed" combined. But like I said a move isn't wrong. And it looks as though someone has already gone through the article and changed all of the spellings to "gimme" so to keep it where it is would be more work than to just move it and be done. Now if someone wouldn't mind going and moving the It's Only Rock 'n' Roll article to It's Only Rock 'n Roll. Stan weller 21:01, 6 June 2007 (UTC)


 * If we're having this much trouble reaching consensus with a whole letter to argue over, I'm not optimistic about our chances with a mere apostrophe. :-) FWIW, I don't see anything in the Naming Conventions to override Use common names of persons and things. "Gimme" may not have been first - but it's overwhelmingly the common usage. Ribonucleic 22:59, 6 June 2007 (UTC)


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This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 09:04, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

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