Beggars Banquet

Information about Beggars Banquet

This article is about the album. For the record label, see Beggars Banquet Records.
Beggars Banquet
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Beggars Banquet cover
Studio album by The Rolling Stones
Released 6 December 1968
Recorded 17 March 1968 – 25 July 1968
Genre Rock, blues
Length 39:47
Label Decca/ABKCO (UK)
London/ABKCO (U.S.)
Producer Jimmy Miller
Professional reviews
The Rolling Stones chronology
Their Satanic Majesties Request
(1967)		Beggars Banquet
(1968)		Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)
(1969)
Alternate cover
Initially rejected cover of Beggars Banquet


Beggars Banquet is an LP released in 1968 by The Rolling Stones. It marked a return to the band's R&B roots, generally viewed as simpler and more primal than the conspicuous psychedelics of Their Satanic Majesties Request.

History

Following the long sessions for the previous album in 1967, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards decided that the band needed more direction in the studio and in early 1968 hired Jimmy Miller, who had produced the Spencer Davis Group and Traffic. The partnership would prove to be a success and Miller would work with the band until 1973.

In March, the band began recording their new album, aiming for a July release. One of the first tracks cut, "Jumpin' Jack Flash", was released as a single that May, becoming a major hit.

Beggars Banquet was Brian Jones' last full effort with The Rolling Stones. In addition to his slide work on "No Expectations", he played harmonica on "Parachute Woman", "Dear Doctor" and "Prodigal Son", sitar and tambura on "Street Fighting Man", mellotron on "Jigsaw Puzzle" and "Stray Cat Blues" and did backing vocals with the rest of the band on "Sympathy for the Devil". His contribution to the next album, Let It Bleed, would be minimal.

By June, the sessions were nearly completed in England, with some final overdubbing and mixing to be done in Los Angeles during July. However, both Decca Records in England and London Records rejected the planned cover design - a graffiti-covered lavatory, and the band held back the album. By November, however, The Rolling Stones gave in, allowing the album to be released in December with a simple imitation invitation card cover. The idea for a plain album cover was also implemented by the Beatles for the White Album, which was released one month prior to Beggars Banquet. This similarity, coupled with Beggars Banquet's later release, garnered the Rolling Stones accusations of imitating the Beatles. In 1984, the original cover art was released with the initial CD remastering of Beggars Banquet.

Critics considered the LP as a return to form.[1] It was also a clear commercial success, reaching #3 in the UK and #5 in the US (on the way to eventual platinum status).

The original LP pressing did not credit Rev. Wilkins as the writer of "Prodigal Son".

On 10 December 1968 and 11 December 1968, the band aimed to promote Beggars Banquet by recording a television extravaganza entitled The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus featuring John Lennon, Eric Clapton, The Who and Jethro Tull among the musical guests. However, the project did not air and would not receive an official release until 1996.

Jean-Luc Godard filmed some of the recording sessions showing the band recording "Sympathy for the Devil", the lead off track for the album. The film is widely available on DVD.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 57 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2003 the TV network VH1 named Beggars Banquet the 67th greatest album of all time.

In August 2002 Beggars Banquet was reissued in a new remastered CD, LP and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records.

In 2005, The Yuppie Pricks parodied the album's title and cover with their album Brokers Banquet.

The abbreviation in the album's cover, R.S.V.P., is a French phrase, "répondez, s'il vous plaît", which means "please reply".

In 2007, "No Expectations" was covered by the electronica duo Soulsavers with Mark Lanegan on the album It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land, as well as by the Detroit garage rock band The Dirtbombs in 2005, on their singles collection If You Don't Already Have a Look.

Track listing

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.
  1. "Sympathy for the Devil" – 6:27
  2. * Keith Richards on bass; Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg and Jimmy Miller on backing vocals; Rocky Dijon, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts on percussion
  3. "No Expectations" – 4:02
  4. * Brian Jones on slide guitar, Nicky Hopkins on piano
  5. "Dear Doctor" – 3:26
  6. * Brian Jones on harmonica
  7. "Parachute Woman" – 2:23
  8. * Mick Jagger on harmonica
  9. "Jigsaw Puzzle" – 6:17
  10. * Nicky Hopkins on piano, Keith Richards on acoustic guitar and electric slide guitar, Brian Jones on guitar and Mellotron, Bill Wyman on bass
  11. "Street Fighting Man" – 3:18
  12. * Dave Mason on shehani, Keith Richards on bass, Brian Jones on sitar and tambura
  13. "Prodigal Son" (Rev. Robert Wilkins) – 2:55
  14. * Brian Jones on harmonica
  15. "Stray Cat Blues" – 4:40
  16. *Brian Jones on Mellotron
  17. "Factory Girl" – 2:12
  18. * Rik Grech on fiddle, Dave Mason on Mellotron
  19. "Salt of the Earth" – 4:51
  20. * First verse sung by Keith Richards.

Personnel

  • Mick Jagger – vocals, backing vocals, harmonica
  • Keith Richards – acoustic and electric guitar, bass, vocals
  • Brian Jones – acoustic slide guitar, sitar, tamboura, mellotron, harmonica
  • Charlie Watts – drums, percussion
  • Bill Wyman – bass, backing vocals, percussion, maracas
  • Rocky Dijon – congas
  • Rik Grech – fiddle
  • Nicky Hopkins – piano
  • Dave Mason – mellotron, shehani
  • Jimmy Miller – backing vocals
  • Marianne Faithfull - backing vocals
  • Anita Pallenberg - backing vocals
  • Watts Street Gospel Choir – backing vocals

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1968UK Albums Chart3
1969UK Albums Chart3
1968Billboard Pop Albums27
1969Billboard Pop Albums5
1980Billboard Pop Albums169

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1968"Jumpin' Jack Flash"UK Top 50 Singles1
1968"Jumpin' Jack Flash"The Billboard Hot 1003
1968"Street Fighting Man"The Billboard Hot 10048
1971"Street Fighting Man"UK Top 50 Singles21


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The Rolling Stones
MembersMick Jagger • Keith Richards • Charlie Watts • Ron Wood
Brian Jones • Bill Wyman • Mick Taylor • Ian Stewart
See alsoChuck Leavell • Darryl Jones • Andrew Loog Oldham • Allen Klein
Nicky Hopkins • Bobby Keys • Jimmy Miller • Jim Price • Billy Preston
UK studio albums
1964-1967
The Rolling Stones • The Rolling Stones No. 2 • Out of Our Heads • Aftermath • Between the Buttons
US studio albums
1964-1967
England's Newest Hitmakers • 12 X 5 • The Rolling Stones, Now! • Out of Our Heads • December's Children (And Everybody's) • Aftermath • Between the Buttons
Studio albums
1967-present
Their Satanic Majesties Request • Beggars Banquet • Let It Bleed • Sticky Fingers • Exile on Main St. • Goats Head Soup • It's Only Rock'n Roll • Black and Blue • Some Girls • Emotional Rescue • Tattoo You • Undercover • Dirty Work • Steel Wheels • Voodoo Lounge • Bridges to Babylon • A Bigger Bang
UK EPsThe Rolling Stones • Five by Five • got LIVE if you want it!
Live albums
Got Live if You Want It! • Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert • Love You Live • "Still Life" (American Concert 1981) • Flashpoint • Stripped • No Security • Live Licks
Compilations
Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) • Flowers (US) • Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) • Made in the Shade • Sucking in the Seventies • Rewind (1971-1984) • • Forty Licks • Rarities 1971-2003
Post-contract
ABKCO albums
Hot Rocks 1964-1971 • More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) • Metamorphosis • • The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus • Singles 1963-1965 • Singles 1965-1967 • Singles 1968-1971
Miscellaneous
albums
Jamming with Edward • Brussels Affair
Tours
American Tour 1969 • European Tour '70 • UK Tour '71 • American Tour '72 • Pacific Tour '73 • European Tour '73 Tour of the Americas '75 • Tour of Europe '76 • US Tour '78 •American Tour '81 • European Tour '82 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour • Voodoo Lounge Tour • Bridges to Babylon Tour • No Security Tour • Licks Tour • A Bigger Bang Tour
Related articles
Discography • The Glimmer Twins • Jagger/Richards
Nanker Phelge • Rolling Stones Records • Rock and Roll Circus • Altamont Free Concert • Rolling Stones Mobile Studio
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Sir Michael Phillip "Mick" Jagger (born July 26, 1943) is an English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer and businessman. He is one of the world's most famous celebrities, best known as the frontman of the rock band The Rolling Stones.
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James 'Jimmy' Miller (23 March1942 - 22 October 1994 [1] ) was a Brooklyn born record producer, who produced albums for The Spencer Davis Group (and co-wrote the song "I'm A Man" with Steve Winwood, as well as the lyrics for the Traffic song, "Medicated Goo"), Traffic,
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