Maybe I was a bit harsh on Mick and Keith, theyre not aholes, maybe just armpits....

Seems it was this guy Klein who wanted it.

And I dont know if anybody challeneged me about the stones stealing stuff, I cant see if they did, but I stand behind that. and its pretty well documented.

Its said that The Stones themselves didnt have a say in the deal and it was all Kleins doing the official line goes that Klein demanded full royalties when the song started making waves, claiming the band had used more of the sample than agreed. MicknKeef themselves probably blew the cash on lipbalm and hair twigs without even noticing it. But nonetheless its been something of a stain on their reputation for decades. If someone taking a chunk of a cover of a 30-year-old song of yours and rewriting it into a relevant, era-defining behemoth, and your response is to swoop in like Richard Branson on the NHS budget without even leaving a crumb of a co-write behind, youre not merely stifling the natural ebb and flow of rocknroll through the ages like some cackling cultural water baron, youve exposed the grasping Martin Shkreli in your black, black soul.

>"I mean, its not like the Stones chucked Howlin Wolf a quid every time they wrote a tune."

https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/2493148-2493148

More ?

Not often does a guy admit to stealing a song... Bruce Springsteen actually did, he said he stole the riff from badlands from dont let me be misunderstood by the animals... i think he was joking, but it is the same thing just sped up on his song.

The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has revealed that he thought he stole for a huge hit song, though he wouldnt reveal which song it was, in a recently uploaded Guitar Magazine interview

http://www.alternativenation.net/keith-richards-allegedly-stole-the-rolling-stones-classic/

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music-white-men-sing-the-blues-1097966.html

Im just posting that in case, i doubt anybody would be stupid enough to think the stones didnt steal stuff.