The song then slowly accelerates back to its brisk midtempo rhythm for the final section. The track's drama increases exponentially when the tempo suddenly slows to a striptease-like grind in the middle, letting Jagger drawl out words for emphasis as the band comes to a virtual halt behind him, interjecting drum thumps and laconic bluesy guitar riffs almost as demonic answers to his lyrics.
Jagger, too, unleashes some of his best harmonica work during the song, as well as some of his most salacious vocalizing. "Midnight Rambler" is one of the group's best blues-rock compositions, neither pure electric blues nor pure rock & roll, chugging along like a determined train, with some of their finest combination rhythm-lead guitar riffs. As with some other Rolling Stones lyrics that many might find objectionable ("Brown Sugar," for example), the sinister implications are easy to miss, the first several times the song's heard anyway, because the music itself is so compelling and powerful. Mick Jagger even went to the extent of using part of De Salvo's confession for the rape and murder of 23-year-old Beverly Samans for part of the lyric.
The notoriety stems from the inspiration for the song: Albert De Salvo, the Boston Strangler. "Midnight Rambler" is one of the most notorious Rolling Stones tracks, as well as being one of their most popular songs never to make it onto a single.
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