Album · 1968
Beggars Banquet
Beggars Banquet is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1968 on ABKCO Music and Records, Inc., with 10 tracks.
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10 tracks · 40 min
Album · 1968
Beggars Banquet is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1968 on ABKCO Music and Records, Inc., with 10 tracks.
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10 tracks · 40 min
Beggars Banquet is the seventh British and ninth American studio album by English rock band The Rolling Stones. It was released in December 1968 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States. The album was a return to roots rock for the band following the psychedelic pop of their 1967 album Their Satanic Majesties Request. It was the last Rolling Stones album to be released during Brian Jones' lifetime. Glyn Johns, the album's recording engineer and longtime collaborator of the band, said that Beggars Banquet signaled "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." 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. Miller said that Jones would "show up occasionally when he was in the mood to play, and he could never really be relied on: When he would show up at a session—let's say he had just bought a s…