Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet (50th Anniversary Edition 2018) - CD

Legendary rock band Rolling Stones releases a new edition of Beggars Banquet in honor of its 50th anniversary. The album will be released on 16. November. The original album was recorded between March and July 1968 at London's Olympic Sound Studios. It was the first record, produced by Jimmy Miller and the last one, featuring the original Rolling Stones line-up - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts. Beggars Banquet kicked off the band's most prolific era in terms of albums.
"The Rolling Stones are back and so is rock'n'roll. They finished another album, which is the best one yet. In all aspects it is a great album and great rock'n'roll. No pretense, a significant lyrical and musical success. ” - Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone, 1968
Long after the album's release, legendary rock journalist and author Ben Fong-Torres hailed Beggars Banquet as an "instant masterpiece classic"which "tells the story of the chaos of '68 better than any other work (. ) has a mood of disintegration and resignation in the form of a voice of ambivalent authority. ”
Among other things, the album features the most political song the Rolling Stones have ever released - Street Fighting Man. It was partly inspired by Jagger's firsthand experience of an anti-war demonstration outside the American embassy in London, where he heard activist Tariq Ali speak. At the same time, student protests were taking place in Paris, leading to the now legendary mass May uprising and strike, in which almost a quarter of the nation participated. "It was a strange time. Not only in France, but also in America, because of the Vietnam War, the endless riots and violence. It was good, though. After all, in France they almost succeeded in overthrowing the government, " in a 1997 interview with Rolling Stone, Jagger recounts the time of the record's creation. Another standout track from the album is the single Sympathy For The Devil, which was inspired by Michael Bulgakov's novel and tells the story of Satan's visit to Stalin's Soviet Union.
Originally, the intended cover album was rejected by both the American and British labels. A photograph by Michael Voss, which shows a graffitied wall with part of a toilet in the foreground, was deemed offensive. The album was released in a sleeve with only the band name and the name Beggars Banquet in wedding font. After a few years, however, the record finally got its original cover.

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“ Sympathy for the Devil” / „ No Expectations” / „ Dear Doctor” / „ Parachute Woman” / „ Jigsaw Puzzle” / „ Street Fighting Man” / „ Prodigal Son” / „ Stray Cat Blues” / „ Factory Girl” / „ Salt of the Earth”