It is usually the reserve of pasty, fat white blokes in cord jackets and ill-fitting stonewashed demin kecks to parp on about the greatest riffs in rock. Smoke On The Water and Voodoo Chile are predictably wheeled out for the gazillionth time, leaving them sounding pedestrian and wan.

However, one riff that never fails to send your hair on end is the opening fuzz of the Rolling Stones’ ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’.

And it was on this very day, back in 1965, in a hotel room in Clearwater, Florida, that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards sat down with a newly purchased Gibson fuzz-box and worked out one of the most electrifying riffs in rock, paving the way for everyone to get in on the fuzz guitar action.