Can't Get no Satisfaction Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jagger and Richards

Following a concert in Clearwater, Florida on May 6, 1965, Keith Richards woke up from a dream with the guitar riff in his head. He recorded it quickly and fell back asleep while recording an additional forty minutes of snoring. Mick Jagger then wrote the lyrics in ten minutes while by the hotel pool.

Answer: True

The song was recorded on May 10, 1965, only days after it was written. The recording took place at the famous Chess Studios in Chicago. Two days later, on May 12, 1965, the group recorded it again at the RCA studios in Hollywood. The song was released as a single in the United States on June 6, 1965, less than one month after it was written.

Answer: Out of Our Heads

"Out of Our Heads" was the fourth Rolling Stones' album released in the United States. The album was released on July 30, 1965. In addition to "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," the United States release contained such classic Rolling Stones' songs as "Good Times" "Play With Fire" and "The Last Time." The album reached number one on the Billboard chart.

Answer: True

"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was originally released as a single in the United States on June 6, 1965. The song was on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for fourteen weeks in the summer of 1965, reaching number one on July 10th. It remained there for four weeks.

The previous highest ranked Rolling Stones' single was "Time is on My Side" which peaked at number six following its release in September of 1964.

Answer: True

Upon its initial release, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was banned from play on the BBC due to the sexual nature of the lyrics. Luckily for the Rolling Stones, the song was released during the height of the pirate radio craze in the United Kingdom. Despite the ban on traditional radio, the song found a home on pirate radio stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio Scotland.

Answer: fourth

"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was released on August 20, 1965 in the United Kingdom. The song reached number one on September 11, 1965 and remained there for two weeks. Previous number one singles for the Rolling Stones in the United Kingdom were: "It's All Over Now," "Little Red Rooster" and "The Last Time."

Answer: "And I'm tryin' to make some girl"

"Shindig!" was an American music show on ABC, similar to "American Bandstand." When the Rolling Stones appeared on the show in 1965 to perform "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," the line "and I'm tryin' to make some girl" was censored. Surprisingly, the same line was allowed when the group appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show." Ed Sullivan had previously banned the group from performing.

Answer: Fuzz

The heavily distorted, "fuzzy" sound of the guitar was achieved through the use of a Gibson Maestro Fuzztone FZ-1. First released in 1962, Gibson shipped all available units to dealers the first year. Due to slow sales, the company shipped only three additional units in 1963 and none in 1964. Due in no small part to the popularity of the song, Gibson sold out its entire inventory of FZ-1s by the end of 1965.

Answer: Apocalypse Now

In Francis Ford Coppolla's 1979 classic, "Apocalypse Now," "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is featured in a scene where Captain Benjamin L. Willard (played by Martin Sheen) reviews the dossier of U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (played by Marlon Brando).

As Willard reviews the file, his crew sings, dances and water skis to the song. The song can also be found in the movies "Casino" (1995) and "Life or Something Like It" (2002).

Answer: False

"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was named the second greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in 2004. Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" was chosen as the greatest song of all time. The Rolling Stones placed an incredible fourteen songs on the list, second to only the Beatles with twenty three.

Other songs by the Rolling Stones in the top 50 of the list are "Sympathy for the Devil" (32) and "Gimme Shelter" (38).