{"id":311473,"date":"2026-02-26T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/311473\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:36:10","slug":"rolling-stones-dispute-melania-producers-claim-mick-jagger-gave-blessing-for-song-to-be-used-in-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/311473\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stones dispute Melania producer\u2019s claim Mick Jagger \u2018gave blessing\u2019 for song to be used in documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A representative for the Rolling Stones<\/a> has disputed a claim by the producer behind the Melania documentary<\/a> that the rock band were personally involved in approving the film\u2019s use of their song \u201cGimme Shelter\u201d. <\/p>\n

Released in January by Amazon MGM studios, Melania follows the US first lady in the weeks leading up to her husband Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s second inauguration. The film was widely panned by critics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Radiohead\u2019s Jonny Greenwood and director Paul Thomas Anderson have also requested the removal of music from their 2017 film Phantom Thread from Trump\u2019s documentary.<\/p>\n

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The Rolling Stones song \u2018Gimme Shelter\u2019 features in the soundtrack of the \u2018Melania\u2019 documentary (AP)<\/p>\n

The Guardian <\/a>reports that a source close to Mick Jagger<\/a> has now cast doubt on producer Mark Beckman\u2019s claim that his team was closely involved with the singer over the use of the Stones\u2019 music. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe worked very close with them on that,\u201d Beckman told Variety <\/a>this week, stating that Jagger was \u201cactually involved\u201d and \u201cgave us his blessing\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat wasn\u2019t something that we just pulled out. And that wasn\u2019t a political thing,\u201d he added. \u201cWith the Stones, they were just like, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re making a nice movie.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cThey were like able to get over the hurdle: it\u2019s not politics \u2013 it\u2019s just some story about some woman that is going from being a civilian back into the White House, and this movie looks cool and Brett [Ratner] is doing a cool job and Melania Trump<\/a> is focused, and let\u2019s do it. We showed it to them and they were impressed.\u201d<\/p>\n

A source close to Jagger told The Guardian that they believed scepticism was necessary as Beckman was attempting to promote the movie. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Rolling Stones<\/a> told the publication that the deal to use \u201cGimme Shelter\u201d was set up exclusively between rights holders ABKCO and the film\u2019s producers, without the band\u2019s involvement. <\/p>\n

The Independent has contacted the Stones\u2019 representatives for comment. <\/p>\n

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Melania Trump\u2019s self-titled documentary has been panned by critics (Amazon)<\/p>\n

Beckman also said in his Variety interview <\/a>that there was a \u201cbeautiful song\u201d by Guns N\u2019 Roses that they\u2019d wanted to use, but that the group had disagreed over whether to grant permission and couldn\u2019t go ahead without universal agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the guys \u2013 I don\u2019t want to name, it\u2019s not fair \u2013 said, \u2018You got it. Go.\u2019 And the other one was basically like, \u2018There\u2019s just no way,\u2019\u201d he recalled. \u201cSo Guns N\u2019 Roses was definitely a disappointment for us; we all have a lot of respect for Guns N\u2019 Roses.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Prince estate was also said to have blocked the use of one of the late artist\u2019s songs, on the grounds that \u201cPrince would never want his song associated with Donald Trump<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-311473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}