The self-referencing and mocking Jig-Saw Puzzle is a treat Factory Girl is folky and pastoral Salt Of The Earth, made poignant by its performance in the Rock’n’Roll Circus film, closes the album.” – Daryl Easlea, BBC Street Fighting Man conflated Jagger’s imaginary hard-done-by blues man momentarily confused and out of step with the political climate of 1968. By putting all these different themes on the same album the Stones are trying to tell us that they all belong together. Beggars Banquet ought to convince us all that the Stones are right. Yet even these subjects are coloured by the impact of Sympathy For The Devil and Street Fighting Man. Over at the Stones house there’s plenty of room for groupies, doctors, jigsaw puzzles, factory girls, and broken hearts as well. It derives its central motive and mood from the theme of “revolution” but isn’t limited to that. Pepper-type unity it manages to touch all the bases. Its title? Rolling Stone Blues, Parts I & II. Wilkins recorded his first song the year earlier in September 1928 for the Victor label. Prodigal Son by Reverend Robert Wilkins was originally recorded in 1964 but based on a track he’d first recorded in 1929 called That’s No Way To Get Along. The last word goes to the only song on Beggars Banquet that’s not a Jagger/Richards original. ‘ But it’s no hanging matter/It’s no capital crime.’ As Album Of The Week Club member Sam Paul Martin commented: “You couldn’t get away with a song like that nowadays.” ‘ I can see that you’re fifteen years old/No I don’t want your I.D.,” sings Jagger, who was 25 at the time.
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“In the end,” said drummer Charlie Watts, “I just played a jazz Latin feel in the style Kenny Clarke would have played on A Night in Tunisia – not the actual rhythm he played, but the same styling.” The end result is over six minutes of hypnotic ‘woo-woo’s (according to a key scene in the 2015 Will Smith movie Focus, there are 124 ‘woo-woos’ in the song), brutal whiplashing guitar licks and brilliant religion-baiting lyrics from Jagger as he imagines himself/the devil at key moments in history and implicates us all (‘ I shouted out, “Who killed the Kennedys?”/ When after all, it was you and me’).īut for all the controversy caused by Sympathy, it’s probably Stray Cat Blues that’s the album’s most transgressive track these days. Written by Jagger as a Dylanesque ballad, the band tried it many different ways. The most startling song on Beggars Banquet is the opener, Sympathy For The Devil. ‘I rode a tank/Held a general’s rank/When the blitzkrieg raged/And the bodies stank’ Keith talked about this – and the anti-establishment vibes that fed Street Fighting Man – in this video for Apple Music last year: there are no electric instruments on Street Fighting Man at all, apart from the bass which I overdubbed later. “In the studio, I plugged the cassette into a little extension speaker and put a microphone in front… That was the basic track. You were using the cassette player as a pickup and an amplifier at the same time. That grinding, dirty sound came out of these crummy little motels where the only thing you had to record with was this new invention called the tape recorder… Playing an acoustic, you’d overload the Philips cassette player to the point of distortion so that we it was played back it was effectively an electric guitar. With both songs he’d “discovered a new sound I could get out of an acoustic guitar. “That song and Street Fighting Man came out of the first sessions with Jimmy at Olympic Studios for what would become Beggars Banquet,” wrote Keith.
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Miller’s first production for the band was the single Jumpin’ Jack Flash. He’s the drummer on Exile’s Happy he was the original drummer on You Can’t Always Get What You Want.
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According to Richards, Miller had “a natural feel for the band” that came from his being “a damn good drummer. Miller had produced the Spencer Davis Group, then Traffic and Traffic-related acts Spooky Tooth and Family’s Music In A Doll’s House before he met the Stones. This is where we had to pull out the good stuff. Out of the drift we extracted Beggars Banquet and helped take the Stones to a different level. And this is where Jimmy Miller comes into the picture as our new producer. Satanic Majesties, says Keith, had been a “bit of flimflam. In his autobiography, Life, Keith Richards says that producer Jimmy Miller is the guy who turned the Stones around – as well as a little discovery he made with an acoustic guitar and a cassette recorder. And there was a new influence on the band.