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Rolling Stones* – Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet album cover
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Label: ABKCO – 000187 7185161 5, ABKCO – 000187 7185171 4, ABKCO – 000187 7185181 3 , ABKCO – 000187 7185191 2, Decca – 000187 7185181 3, London Records – 000187 7185171 4
Format:
All Media, Anniversary Edition
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 180 Gram
Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Single Sided, Etched, Mono, 180 gram
Flexi-disc, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: Nov 16, 2018
Genre: Rock
Style: Blues Rock, Rock & Roll
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A1 Sympathy For The Devil
A2 No Expectations
A3 Dear Doctor
A4 Parachute Woman
A5 Jig-Saw Puzzle
B1 Street Fighting Man
B2 Prodigal Son
B3 Stray Cat Blues
B4 Factory Girl
B5 Salt Of The Earth
C Sympathy For The Devil
Bonus Flexi Disc
London To Tokyo April 17, 1968 Interview
D Hello! This Is Mick Jagger
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Manufactured By – ABKCO Music And Records, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – ABKCO Music And Records, Inc.
Copyright © – ABKCO Music And Records, Inc.
Remastered At – Gateway Mastering
Engineered At – ABKCO Studios
Engineered At – Battery Studios, London
Lacquer Cut At – Abbey Road Studios
Published By – ABKCO Music, Inc.
Published By – Wynwood Music Co. Inc.
Lacquer Cut At – Black Matter Mastering
Pressed By – GZ Media – 179451O
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Art Direction [Repackage] – Alisa Coleman*
Artwork [Vinyl Etching] – Dan/Bmm*
Concept By – Lenne Allik
Lacquer Cut By – Sean Magee
Layout [Repackage] – Bayondai Design*, Brian Fitzpatrick (2)
Management, Legal – William Pittenger
Photography By [Front And Back] – Barry Feinstein
Photography By [Inside] – Michael Josephs*
Producer, Design [Original] – Jimmy Miller
Production Manager [Production Coordinator] – Anthony Kott, Maria Papazahariou
Promotion [Sales And Marketing] – Cathy Bauer, Julian Klein (3)
Remastered By [Mastering and Sound Restoration], Restoration [Sound Restoration] – Bob Ludwig
Restoration [Restoration Producer], Producer [Restoration Producer], Transferred By [Analog To Digital Transfers] – Teri Landi
Transferred By [Analog To Digital Transfers] – Matt Cavaluzzo
Written-By – Jagger And Richards* (tracks: A1 to B1, B3 to C), Rev. Wilkins* (tracks: B2)
Packaged in slip cover with gatefold LP sleeve containing the LP and 12 in. 45 rpm disc, a bonus picture sleeve with a flexi disc plus a download card for mp3s of the album and bonus content.
Flip side of the 45 rpm disc is embossed with an image of the gatefold front cover.
No durations appear on this release.
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On back of the slip cover:
"Anniversary Edition
Original Beggars Banquet gatefold jacket with 12" LP remastered on 180 gram vinyl
"Sympathy For The Devil' 12" Original Mono Mix with Etched Back
Bonus Flexi Disc: "Hello! This is Mick Jagger" LONDON to TOKYO April 17, 1968 Interview"
℗ & © 2018 ABKCO Music And Records, Inc."
Cat. No. 000187 7185161 5 on slip cover
Cat. No. 000187 7185161 4 on spine of gatefold sleeve
Cat. No. 000187 7185171 4 on LP labels
Cat. No. 000187 7185181 3 on 45 rpm 12in. label
Cat. No. 000187 7185191 2 on flexidisc picture sleeve and disc
Analog to Digital transfers: ABKCO Studios, Battery Studios
Wynwood Music Co., Inc. appears as Wynwood Music Company, Inc
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Zurück zum Anfang
Für ihr siebtes Album »Beggars Banquet« kehrten die Rolling Stones zurück zum Blues und Rock ihrer Anfangstage. Das Resultat waren Songs wie »Sympathy For The Devil« und Top-5-Platzierungen in den USA und Großbritannien.
2018 feiert der Klassiker seinen 50. Geburtstag. Passend dazu gibt es jetzt die limitierte 50th-Anniversary-Edition.
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Die Geburtstagsedition des Rockmeilensteins
Es ist kaum zu glauben: Das Album »Beggars Banquet« von den Rolling Stones feiert 2018 seinen 50. Geburtstag.
Zum Jubiläum präsentieren die britischen Rock-Giganten jetzt die limitierte 50th-Anniversary-Edition.
»Beggars Banquet« ist das siebte Studioalbum der Rolling Stones. Es erschien ursprünglich im Dezember 1968 und war das letzte Album der Band in Originalbesetzung mit Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman und Charlie Watts.
Mit Hits wie »Sympathy For The Devil« und »Street Fighting Man« landete es in Großbritannien auf Platz drei, in den USA auf der Fünf und in Deutschland auf Platz acht der Charts.
Die »Beggars Banquet«-50th-Anniversary-Edition ist als CD und als 3-LP-Set erhältlich. Das Album wurde für die Neuauflagen von Bob Ludwig neu gemastert. Die LP kommt im Gatefold-Sleeve mit dem berühmten »Toiletten«-Cover von Michael Vosse. Zudem gibt es eine Extra-Hülle mit dem »Hochzeitseinlandungs«-Cover.
Die Vinylversion umfasst zudem eine Bonus-12"-LP mit einer Monoversion von »Sympathy For The Devil« (45 rpm). Auf der Rückseite der Platte befindet sich ein Etching des legendären Toiletten-Coverartworks. Außerdem warten eine Replik der seltenen japanischen Bonus-Flexi-Disc mit einem Telefoninterview mit Mick Jagger von 1968 und ein Download-Code für das Album plus Interview.
Besser könnte man den Geburtstag dieses Rockmeilensteins nicht feiern: Hier ist die 50th-Anninversary-Edition von »Beggars Banquet« von den Rolling Stones.
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Rezension:
Als hätte es die beiden Vorgängeralben nie gegeben: Nicht nur einfach eine Rückkehr zum Blues, sondern eine der stärksten (weißen) Blues-Rock-LPs überhaupt. "Sympathy For The Devil"! "No Expectations"! "Streetfighting Man"! Ein Album aus Staub und Dreck, das Cover bildet die beschmierte Wand einer öffentlichen Toilette ab (was der Firma Decca damals bekanntlich zu obszön war; die frühen Auflagen kamen in einer neutralisierten Hülle). Gefährlicher klangen die Stones nie. – Zum 50. Albumjubiläum wurde neu gemastert (Bob Ludwig!); als Beigaben gibt's eine einseitig bespielte 12" mit dem Mono-Mix von "Sympathy…" auf 45 Touren und eine Flexidisc mit einem Mick Jagger-Interview, einst in Japan erschienen. (1968/2018)
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Rolling Stones’ ‘Beggars Banquet’ 50th-Anniversary Edition
The reissue of the 1968 landmark featured a reproduction of a super-rare flexidisc interview with Mick Jagger.
The Rolling Stones’ landmark 1968 album Beggars Banquet has been released in a new 50th Anniversary Edition by ABKCO Records in multiple formats, including vinyl and CD.
The limited edition vinyl format has a gatefold jacket with a bonus 12” of the album’s celebrated opening track, ‘Sympathy For the Devil,’ in mono. That disc is cut at 45rpm and backed with an etching of the original “toilet” cover. Also in the package is a replica of the rare Japanese bonus flexi disc, which contains a telephone interview with Mick Jagger from 1968, and a download code for the album plus interview. Newly mastered by Grammy-winning engineer Bob Ludwig, the disc’s lacquers were cut at Abbey Road and it’s pressed on 180g vinyl.
Beggars Banquet Stones Press PhotoThe telephone interview that Mick Jagger did with a staffer from the Stones’ Japanese label King Records had a title that translated to “’Hello, This Is Mick Jagger!’ LONDON to TOKYO April 17, 1968.” It is restored with its original sleeve art in the limited edition vinyl package, marking the first time this rarity has been available outside Japan. During the conversation, which took place while the band were recording the new album, Jagger is asked “What do you think is the future direction of your music?” He replies: “Sideways.”
Beggars Banquet, originally released on 6 December 1968, was the group’s last album to be released during Brian Jones’ lifetime and their first with producer Jimmy Miller. As well as ‘Sympathy For The Devil,’ it featured such key tracks as the single ‘Street Fighting Man,’ ‘No Expectations’ and ‘Factory Girl.’
Beggars Banquet“The Rolling Stones have returned, and they are bringing back rock and roll with them,” wrote Rolling Stone founder and editor Jann Wenner in the 10 August 1968 issue of the magazine. That edition carried a cover story with the headline “The Stones Make the Great Comeback of Their Career.”
Continued Wenner: “They have finished their next album — titled Beggars’ Banquet [the hyphen in ‘Beggars’ later disappeared] — and it is the best record they have yet done. In all aspects it is a great album; great Rolling Stones’ material and performance; a great rock and roll album, without pretence, an achievement of significance in both lyrics and music.”
The Beggars Banquet 50th Anniversary Edition is out now. Scroll down to see the full tracklisting, and buy the limited vinyl edition here.
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The Rolling Stones “Beggars Banquet (50th Anniversary Edition) – Out November 16
ARTIST OCT, 04, 2018
Out November 16th – The Limited Edition 180 Gram Vinyl Version Includes Mono 12” Single “Sympathy For the Devil” & Flexi Disc of 1968 Jagger Interview wrapped in RSVP Cover Art. The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet (50th Anniversary Edition), was recorded between March and July of 1968 at Olympic Sound Studios in London, mixed at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, Beggars Banquet was the first Stones album produced by Jimmy Miller, and marks the start of what is considered their most prolific album era. Beggars Banquet has a special place in the history of the band, as it is the final album completed with the original lineup of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts.
In the August 10, 1968 issue of Rolling Stone, magazine founder and editor Jann Wenner previewed the album for his readers noting, “The Rolling Stones have returned, and they are bringing back rock and roll with them. They have finished their next album — titled Beggars’ Banquet — and it is the best record they have yet done. In all aspects it is a great album; great Rolling Stones’ material and performance; a great rock and roll album, without pretense, an achievement of significance in both lyrics and music.” Wenner also put Mick on the cover of that issue, with a boastful headline, “The Stones Make the Great Comeback of Their Career.”
Long after its original release, legendary rock journalist and author Ben Fong-Torres heralded Beggars Banquet as “an album flush with masterful and growling instant classics” that “responds more to the chaos of ’68 and to themselves than to any fellow artists . . . the mood is one of dissolution and resignation, in the guise of a voice of ambivalent authority.”
As Fong-Torres refers to, “Street Fighting Man,” the most politically charged Stones song of all time, was partially inspired by Mick Jagger’s first-hand experience at an anti-war rally at the U.S. embassy in London where he saw activist Tariq Ali speak. Simultaneously, student protests in Paris were taking place, leading to a massive uprising that May in which almost a quarter of the nation participated in strikes and demonstrations. Jagger told Rolling Stone in 1997, “It was a very strange time in France. But not only in France but also in America, because of the Vietnam War and these endless disruptions . . . I thought it was a very good thing at the time. There was all this violence going on. I mean, they almost toppled the government in France . . .”
February 1969 marked the album’s second single, “Sympathy for the Devil” written mainly by Jagger after Marianne Faithfull gave him a copy of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita. The story follows the devil as he visits Stalin-era Soviet Union. Originally intended to be played in a folk style, Richards suggested changing the tempo and adding percussion, turning the rhythm into a samba. The evolution of this incredible song was captured in the Jean-Luc Godard film Sympathy For The Devil aka ONE PLUS ONE. The film has recently been carefully restored in 4K and is available October 5th as a BluRay, DVD and download in North America.
With the 1969 release of Beggars Banquet in Japan, the album included a 7″ flexi disc capturing a telephone interview between Mick Jagger and a representative of the King Records in Tokyo, the distributor of London Records in Japan. The rare artifact’s title translated to “’Hello, This Is Mick Jagger!’ LONDON to TOKYO April 17, 1968” has been restored and reissued on flexi disc with identical sleeve art. A limited run will be included in the 50th Anniversary Limited Edition Vinyl package, worldwide, making it available for the first time outside Japan. A cunning moment in the exchange captured over the telephone, halfway around the world, while the band was busy recording the yet-unnamed album Beggars Banquet in Olympic Sound Studios, Jagger was asked “What do you think is the future direction of your music?” And with no hesitation, he responded “Sideways.”
The original intended album cover art for Beggars Banquet was initially rejected both by London Records, their U.S. label as well as Decca, their UK label. The Michael Vosse photograph of a vandalized restroom wall (Jagger and Richards provided the graffiti, the restroom was inside a Porsche dealership) was deemed offensive, possibly because the top of an open toilet is captured in the shot. The replacement cover was simply the band name and album title written in the style of a wedding invitation, and remained that way for several years before the intended bathroom photo art was no longer perceived as offensive, and finally gained its rightful place on the cover. Beggars Banquet (50th Anniversary Edition) pays tribute to both, as the package will be housed with the Vosse image, with an overwrap of the “inoffensive” wedding invitation art.
The limited edition vinyl package will come in gatefold jacket, with a bonus 12” of their iconic single “Sympathy for the Devil” in Mono cut at 45rpm, backed with an etching of the original ‘toilet’ cover. Also included is a replica of the rare Japanese bonus flexi disc containing a phone interview with Mick Jagger from 1968, and a download code for the album plus interview. The landmark album has been newly mastered by Grammy Award® winning engineer Bob Ludwig, lacquers cut at Abbey Road and pressed at RTI in California on 180g.
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