OT-Rolling Stones tune wakes man in coma
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:30 amA 60-year-old UK man who fell into a 10-week coma after contracting severe anemia regained consciousness -- after his wife blasted the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" on his headphones, according to telegraph.co.uk.
While unconscious, retired baker Sam Carter from Stoke in Staffordshire had spent three days listening to the local Stoke station Signal 2, before his wife began playing his favorite songs -- including the Stones classic, which was the first single Carter ever bought.
Carter, who had only been given a 30 percent chance of survival, recalled, "I can't remember much from being in a coma, but I do remember that when that song came on it took me right back to when I was a youngster. I could remember how excited I was to get it down at the record shop. I suddenly had a burst of energy and knew I had a lot more life left in me and that's when I woke up -- to the sound of the first song I ever bought."
He went on to say, "I would love to thank Mick (Jagger) and the rest of the Stones personally. I feel they really did help wake me from my coma."
Carter's wife Eva added: "I couldn't believe it when he started opening his eyes and looked at me. It was like we had been given another chance."
