Review
The Rolling Stones
Beggars Banquet
(Abkco)
Release Date: 10/25/1968 12:00
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After dabbling in the psychedelia, the Stones reconnected with their skanky muse. Banquet was packed with smutty talk and images of late-'60s social upheaval. At the center was the menacingly groovy "Sympathy for the Devil," in which Jagger played the Dark Lord as debauched, debonair man-about-town, a persona he liked enough to keep for several years.

Download: "Sympathy for the Devil," "Street Fighting Man"
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