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Beggars Banquet
is the seventh
studio album
by the English
rock band
released on
December,6th 1968
by Decca Records in
the United Kingdom
and London Records
in the United States.
It was the first
Rolling Stones album
produced by
Jimmy Miller,
whose production work
formed a key aspect
of the Rolling Stones' sound
throughout the
late 1960s
and early 1970s.
Brian Jones,
the band's co-founder
and early leader,
had become
increasingly unreliable
in the studio
due to his drug use,
and it was the
last Rolling Stones album
to be released during
his lifetime,
though he also contributed
to two songs on
their next album
Let It Bleed,
which was released
after his death
Jones also contributed
to the group's hit song
"Jumpin' Jack Flash",
which was part of
the same sessions,
and released
in May 1968
Nearly all rhythm
and lead guitar parts
were recorded by
Keith Richards,
the Rolling Stones'
other guitarist
and the primary
songwriting partner
of their lead singer
Mick Jagger;
together the two wrote
all but one
of the tracks on the album.
Rounding out
the instrumentation
were bassist
Bill Wyman
and drummer
Charlie Watts,
though all members
contributed on a
variety of instruments.
As with most albums
During That Period
It Marked
a change in direction
for the band
following the
psychedelic pop
of their
previous two albums,
Between the Buttons
and
Their Satanic Majesties Request.
Styles such as
roots rock
and a return to
the blues rock sound
that had marked
early Stones recordings
dominate the record,
and the album is among
the most instrumentally
experimental of the
band's career,
as they use
Latin beats
and instruments like
the claves alongside
South Asian sounds
from the tanpura,
tabla and shehnai,
and African
music-influenced
conga rhythms.
Beggars Banquet
was a top-ten album
in many markets,
including a number 5 position
in the US where
it has been certified
platinum and a
number 3 position
in the band's
native UK.
It received a
highly favourable response
from music critics,
who deemed it a
return to form.
While the album lacked
a major hit single
at the time of
its release,
songs such as
"Sympathy for the Devil"
and
"Street Fighting Man"
(U.S. Billboard number 48)
became rock radio staples
for decades to come.
The album
has appeared
on many lists of
the greatest albums
of all time,
including by
Rolling Stone,
and it was inducted into
the Grammy
Hall of Fame
in 1999.
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