Beggar's Banquet

2023 Reissue! 180g Black Vinyl! Die Rolling Stones kehrten 1968 mit Beggars Banquet zu ihren Blues-Wurzeln zurück, das sofort als einer ihrer Meilensteine gefeiert wurde. Ein starker, akustischer Delta-Blues prägt einen Großteil des Albums, insbesondere »Prodigal Son« und Jagger / Richards' »No Expectations«. Mit »Street Fighting Man« und »Sympathy for the Devil« wird der grundlegende Rock'n'Roll nicht vergessen. Der lyrische Biss des Materials sichert ihm seinen Platz als eines der besten bluesbasierten Rockalben aller Zeiten. 1968 was the year that flower power turned nasty. The previously peaceful 'counter culture' ran out of control. Students started rioting in the streets of Paris and the joy of youthful self-realisation turned to anger and aggression. Everywhere, the ceremony of innocence was drowned. But it was also the year that, after the atypical psychedelic excursion that is Their Satanic Majesties Request, The Stones decided to strip it down and start again, building from the basics of what they believed in, which has never had anything directly to do with getting high or taking on The Man with bricks and bottles in the streets. The drug-fuelled, jet set, rock star lifestyle may come with the package for successful popular musicians. But The Rolling Stones exist for one reason, and that's to play blues-based, beat-driven guitar music. And on Beggars Banquet they do that for the first time in a style and with a controlled power that no other band has ever been able to emulate. Beggars Banquet marks the return of the Rolling Stones to fundamental rock 'n' roll, 1960s style...