Beggars Banquet
by The Rolling Stones
- Type: Album
- Released: 6 December 1968
- Label: Decca, London
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 39:44
- Community rating: 4.19/5 from 19 ratings
Artists on this release: Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Marking a departure from psychedelia, 'Beggars Banquet' is a raw, largely acoustic-based return to the band's roots-rock and blues foundations, guided by the pivotal first-time production of Jimmy Miller. The album’s sound is defined by Keith Richards’ intricate, layered guitar work and a broad instrumental palette that mixes folk textures with Latin and African rhythms, and it stands as the final full record released during Brian Jones’s lifetime. With landmark songs like "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man," the album captured the era's social and political turmoil, cementing its status as a celebrated return to form that launched the group’s most acclaimed creative period.
Genres
Descriptors: bluesy, acoustic, organic, menacing, satirical
Tracklist
- Sympathy For The Devil - 50th Anniversary Edition (06:18)
- No Expectations - 50th Anniversary Edition (03:57)
- Dear Doctor - 50th Anniversary Edition (03:21)
- Parachute Woman - 50th Anniversary Edition (02:20)
- Jigsaw Puzzle - 50th Anniversary Edition (06:06)
- Street Fighting Man - 50th Anniversary Edition (03:15)
- Prodigal Son - 50th Anniversary Edition (02:51)
- Stray Cat Blues - 50th Anniversary Edition (04:38)
- Factory Girl - 50th Anniversary Edition (02:09)
- Salt Of The Earth - 50th Anniversary Edition (04:49)
Credits
- Mick Jagger - lead vocals, hand drum, backing vocals, harmonica, maracas
- Keith Richards - electric guitars, acoustic guitars, electric slide guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals, opening lead vocals
- Brian Jones - acoustic slide guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica, mellotron, sitar, tambura, backing vocals
- Bill Wyman - bass guitar, double bass, backing vocals, shekere
- Charlie Watts - drums, claves, tambourine, tabla, backing vocals
- Nicky Hopkins - piano, mellotron, farfisa organ
- Rocky Dzidzornu - congas, cowbell
- Ric Grech - fiddle
- Dave Mason - shehnai, mellotron
- Marianne Faithfull - backing vocals
- Anita Pallenberg - backing vocals
- Watts Street Gospel Choir - backing vocals
- Jimmy Miller - producer, backing vocals
- Glyn Johns - recording engineer
- Christopher Gibbs - album title concept
- Barry Feinstein - photography, art design
- Michael Joseph - photography
- Tom Wilkes - design
- Eddie Kramer - chief engineer