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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.

For years the Rolling Stones have been giving hope to the dead and the nearly dead. Not through their music – no, just in the fact that they can still get around reasonably well without having had an actual pulse in over thirty years. Seriously – its inspiring.

Get on that Lifetime.

OK, well sometimes the hope-giving is through their music. Take a man who was recently in a coma, for instance. His wife plugged some headphones into his ears, blasted I Can’t Get No Satisfaction, and then the guy’s ears started to tremble and bleed. That song does the exact same thing to us. It usually starts 1/3 into verse 1.

The guys ears didn’t really bleed – he miraculously woke up.

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Rolling Stones Song Wakes Man Up From Coma, And Its Not Keith Richards