Beggars Banquet

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a b c "100 Greatest Rolling Stones Songs - Salt of the Earth (1968)". Rolling Stone. October 5, 2013 . Retrieved January 28, 2020. Dear Doctor" was recorded at London's Olympic Sound Studios between 13 and 21 May 1968. Despite its appearance on one of the Rolling Stones' more well-known albums, "Dear Doctor" has never been performed live by the band. It appears on the compilation album Slow Rollers. [2] Personnel [ edit ]

Beggars Banquet ranked 185th greatest album by Rolling Stone magazine". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 17 October 2020 . Retrieved 1 October 2020.Glyn Johns, the album's recording engineer and a longtime collaborator of the band, said that Beggars Banquet signalled "the Rolling Stones' coming of age.... I think that the material was far better than anything they'd ever done before. The whole mood of the record was far stronger to me musically." [5] Producer Jimmy Miller described guitarist Keith Richards as "a real workhorse" while recording the album, mostly due to the infrequent presence of Brian Jones. When he did show up at the sessions, Jones behaved erratically due to his drug use and emotional problems. [5] Miller said that Jones would "show up occasionally when he was in the mood to play, and he could never really be relied on: The beauty of the Stones was never their reverence, but their cheek at genre conventions. On “Factory Girl,” the Stones knew country and western so well that they weren’t afraid to play it with Eastern, West Indies, or any other kinds of instruments. a b Lester, Paul (10 July 2007). "These albums need to go to rehab". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014 . Retrieved 21 July 2013. a b "Beggars Banquet ranked 39th greatest album". Acclaimed Music. Archived from the original on 27 February 2021 . Retrieved 30 November 2020.

Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. In a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone, Jagger said: “I think that was taken from an old idea of Baudelaire’s, I think, but I could be wrong.” Jagger and Richards performed it as a duet for the 2001 " The Concert for New York City", commemorating the fallen of September 11, 2001, although they changed the lyrics to make its message more positive (most notably "Let's drink to the good and the evil" was changed to "Let's drink to the good not the evil"). [3]

There was an all-star element to the sessions - sort of

Clayson, Alan (2006). The Rolling Stones Album File & Complete Discography. Cassell Illustrated. ISBN 1844034941. Swedishcharts.com – The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet". Hung Medien. Retrieved 22 December 2022.

Also in 2002 the Russian label CD-Maximum unofficially released the limited edition Beggars Banquet + 7 Bonus, which was also bootleged on a German counterfeit-DECCA label as Beggars Banquet (the Mono Beggars).

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Gibbs, Christopher Henry. "Beggars Banquet" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 November 2021 . Retrieved 18 February 2021.

Myers, Marc (11 December 2013). "Keith Richards: 'I Had a Sound in My Head That Was Bugging Me' ". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021 . Retrieved 11 March 2018. Hayward, Mark; Evans, Mike (7 September 2009). The Rolling Stones: On Camera, Off Guard 1963–69. Pavilion. pp.156–. ISBN 978-1-86205-868-2. Archived from the original on 15 February 2017 . Retrieved 17 July 2011. Joan Baez on the studio album, Blessed Are... Baez included the song in her set during her October 2011 performance for Occupy Wall Street protesters in Manhattan. Ultratop.be – The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 22 December 2022. Richards is standing for the ham-and-eggers, Jagger is suspicious of the straight world. From there, “Salt of the Earth” begins to rip apart, as if holding two opposing truths in the same song. The two finish the song together as if they’re fighting for the microphone.

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The Rolling Stones "Beggars Banquet (50th Anniversary Edition) – Out November 16". abkco.com. 4 October 2018 . Retrieved 4 November 2021. Quibbling aside, Jagger’s portrayal of the Morning Star as a rakish debonair still elicits grins; the lyrics about shooting the Kennedys and Christ’s agony in Gethsemane, gasps. It was released once again in 2010 by Universal Music Enterprises in a Japanese-only SHM- SACDversion and on 24 November 2010 ABKCO Records released a SHM-CD version. Janovitz concludes, "Jagger may be poking fun a little, but he could not nail the parlance of the characters so precisely if he had not studied it closely as a fan of the music... In a sense, they have been musicologists, interpreting musical forms that were in danger of dying out. The raw quality of 'Dear Doctor' and the rest of the album was a welcoming sound to the ears of most Stones fans losing patience with their experimentation on Their Satanic Majesties Request." [1]