Legendary Sessions: the Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet

Legendary Sessions: the Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet
by Alan Clayson

Legendary Sessions: the Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet
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Author: Alan Clayson
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-01-08
ISBN: 0823083977
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Billboard Books

Summary of Legendary Sessions: the Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet

This breakthrough series looks at great music from a unique vantage point. By considering the recording session itself, rather than the final album, Legendary Sessions showcases the creative process and all the elements that go into making music that reflected its time, commented on our society, and influenced our culture.



How did these epoch-making sessions come about? What influenced the artists? What was it like to be there as the recording was made? Written by top entertainment journalists, Legendary Sessions answers those questions with an involving you-are-there style. What impact did the recording have? Who listened to it? Who imitated it? Who was inspired by it? Legendary Sessions looks at those questions, too, with groundbreaking interviews, eyewitness accounts, and contemporary commentary.



Innovative and intriguing, Legendary Sessions is sure to change the way music fans listen to the great recordings of our time.



After the release of the Rolling Stones?s psychedelic album Their Satanic Majesties Request in 1967, many feared that the bad boys of rock had sacrificed their raw, bluesy edge to love, peace, and flower power. No need to worry. Salvation was at hand with Beggars Banquet, featuring ?Sympathy for the Devil? and ?Street Fighting Man.? The album was a storming return to Satanism, social revolution, and celebrations of the working man. Author Alan Clayson explores the social and cultural developments of the time, the ways that the changing dynamics of the band affected the music, and how the songs took shape. From the latest swinging happenings down on Carnaby Street, to who Mick was sleeping with, to what Keith was taking, Legendary Sessions: The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet is an entertaining trip through rock history.

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