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Thursday, December 2, 2010

'Street Fighting Man' - The Rolling Stones

On the 5th of December 1968, the release of The Rolling Stones’ new album Beggar’s Banquet, was celebrated at a party in London. A food fight with custard pie was the highlight of the event that went on without an ill Keith Richards. The original cover for the LP was in the form of a plain white invitation, but was later changed.http://www.thisdayinmusic.com
Watch 'Street Fighting Man'

Beggars Banquet is the seventh studio album by the English rock band The Rolling Stones. It was released by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States in December 1968. It marked a return to the band's R&B roots,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_Banquet

'Street Fighting Man' The song opens with a strummed acoustic riff. In his review, Richie Unterberger says of the song, "...it's a great track, gripping the listener immediately with its sudden, springy guitar chords and thundering, offbeat drums. That unsettling, urgent guitar rhythm is the mainstay of the verses. Mick Jagger's typically half-buried lyrics seem at casual listening like a call to revolution."[6]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighting_Man
Everywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy,
'Cause summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy
Hey, said my name is called Disturbance;
I'll shout and scream, I'll kill the King, I'll rail at all his servants
Well now what can a poor boy do, Except to sing for a rock & roll band?
Cause in sleepy London Town there's just no place for a street fighting man, no

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