The Beggars Banquet is not an album, rather an extraction of a lifestyle, bottled. It’s more than just Rolling Stones itself, and better than the face of the year 1968 that was posteriorly handled by unlining cosmetics and brand-paints.
Don’t listen to it in case you accidentally would like to live forever. Because you must not die until you play this ten-movement monolithic growth at least once.
After the psychedelic musical aberrations Mick Jagger and Keith Richards turned their backs to all kinds of musical tendencies and wanted the real Rolling Stones again, but in such way that no one has never and nowhere heard. They added all the experience of the last tough years to the soul of the beginning, their desire was the barefaced, perky and self-confident Rolling Stones.

They got together one time at Jagger’s and at the other time at Richards’ place to be able to start the recordings in March 1968 at the Olympic Studio in London.
During this they had the potential to release Jumpin’ Jack Flash as a forerunner which was a real blast everywhere. ‘68 was a weird year. It had a hole in it’ – said Richards, the Bishop of Rock about the constellation of the stars.
The starting piece of the Beggars Banquet is Sympathy for the Devil. A song that’s a dawn can be traced back minute by minute since Jean-Luc Goddard filmed two days of the recording and made One Plus One a never fully appreciated rock classic.
Brian Jones is not any more able to play music these days so practically all the guitars (and songs of course) are from Richards including the bass line of Sympathy for the Devil.
The studio-work – as it is usual now - takes place in Los Angeles with the assistance of Jimmy Miller. Next month in the US the first song of the second side Street Fighting Man appears as a single which gets shortly after that banned so advertising is not a problem any more.

Decca crosses the sleeve designed on which the inner wall of a public toilet can be seen with the line God rolls his own. Both sides are persistent so Beggars Banquet is finally released in December 1968 in the well-known white sleeve that looks like an invitation card. But it has no effect on the sales, people want the content, not the wrap. They want the invasion to start and want the barbarians appear at the gates of Rome.
In case you would like to know how is it like when a stone is rolling up a mountain, a stone on which moss never grows then spare not your loudspeakers, dive into Beggars Banquet!

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