Midnight Rambler

"Midnight Rambler"
Song by The Rolling Stones
from the album Let It Bleed
Released5 December 1969 (1969-12-05)
RecordedSpring 1969
StudioOlympic Sound & Trident, London
Genre
Length6:53
LabelDecca/ABKCO
Songwriter(s)Jagger/Richards
Producer(s)Jimmy Miller

"Midnight Rambler" is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones, released on their 1969 album Let It Bleed. The song is a loose biography of Albert DeSalvo, who confessed to being the Boston Strangler.[3]

Keith Richards has called the number "a blues opera"[4] and the quintessential Jagger-Richards song, stating in the 2012 documentary Crossfire Hurricane that "nobody else could have written that song."

  1. ^ Eric v.d. Luft, Die at the Right Time!: A Subjective Cultural History of the American Sixties, Gegensatz Press, 2009, p. 410
  2. ^ Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (23 March 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2.
  3. ^ Caputi, Jane. The Age Of Sex Crime. Bowling Green University Popular Press. (1987). p. 49.
  4. ^ The Database "Midnight Rambler". Time Is On Our Side. 2007 (accessed 30 January 2008).