“We left the track and went back out on the road. Two weeks later I hear it on the radio. I said, ‘No, that was just a demo!’ They said, ‘No, it’s a hit’”: Why Keith Richards never wanted anyone to hear his Satisfaction guitar riff

Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones plays a Gibson Les Paul on the set of the pop music television show Thank Your Lucky Stars at Alpha Television Studios in Birmingham, England on 21st March 1965.

For the past six decades, Keith Richards has claimed that he wrote (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction in his sleep.

But for all its mythical origins, Richards never thought of the song's iconic guitar hook as “the big guitar riff” – not even when he added a dose of fuzz to it.