“Under My Thumb” was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and released on the 1966 Rolling Stones album Aftermath.

The lyrics depict a sexual power struggle — more specifically, a sinister role-reversal in which the male figure in the relationship ultimately gains leverage over a “pushy”-turned-submissive female.

Marianne Faithfull — Jagger’s romantic partner and collaborator throughout the late ‘60s and early '70s — wrote in her 1994 autobiography Faithfull that this song was loosely inspired by Jagger’s dysfunctional relationship with his previous lover, Chrissie Shrimpton (sister of supermodel Jean Shrimpton).

During the infamous Altamont Concert, the Stones were playing Under My Thumb when the Hell’s Angels beat up a spectator. (It is commonly but incorrectly believed to be Sympathy for the Devil.)