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“Midnight Rambler” is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones, released on their 1969 album Let It Bleed. The lyrics take the point of view of a roaming rapist/murderer; some of the words are reportedly quotes from Albert DeSalvo’s confession to the Boston Strangler’s crimes. Keith Richards has called the number “a blues opera”. On the composing of the song, Mick Jagger said in a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone, “That’s a song Keith and I really wrote together. We were on a holiday in Italy. In this very beautiful hill town, Positano, for a few nights. Why we should write such a dark song in this beautiful, sunny place, I really don’t know. We wrote everything there -- the tempo changes, everything. And I’m playing the harmonica in these little cafes,... Read on...