The Rolling Stones "Street Fighting Man" -LDG Video Edition

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tooken
November 15, 2008

This is The Rolling Stones "Street Fighting Man" (Jagger/Richards) taken from the 1968 LP "Beggars Banquet" -this video was edited by me using diverse archive footage from the Stone's 60's era. It's a tribute to The Rolling Stones most creative period.Any constructive sugestions or questions, comments,feel free to contact me thru tooken@ymail.com. Enjoy, David.
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Here's a litlle info on this song according to Wikipedia:
Originally titled and recorded as "Did Everyone Pay Their Dues?", containing the same music but very different lyrics, "Street Fighting Man" is known as one of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' most politically inclined works to date. Jagger allegedly wrote it about Tariq Ali after Jagger attended a March 1968 anti-war rally at London's U.S. embassy, during which mounted police attempted to control a crowd of 25,000.[2] He also found inspiration in the rising violence among student rioters on Paris's Left Bank,[3] the precursor to May 1968.

On the writing, Jagger said in a 1995 interview with Jann Wenner in Rolling Stone, "Yeah, it was a direct inspiration, because by contrast, London was very quiet...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; DeGaulle went into this complete funk, as he had in the past, and he went and sort of locked himself in his house in the country. And so the government was almost inactive. And the French riot police were amazing."[4]

The song opens with a strummed acoustic riff. In his review, Richie Unterberger says of the song, "...it's a great track, gripping the listener immediately with its sudden, springy guitar chords and thundering, offbeat drums. That unsettling, urgent guitar rhythm is the mainstay of the verses. Mick Jagger's typically half-buried lyrics seem at casual listening like a call to revolution."
Recording on "Street Fighting Man" began at Olympic Sound Studios in March of 1968 and continued into May and June later that year. With Jagger on lead vocals and both he and Richards on backing, Brian Jones performs the song's distincitve sitar and also tamboura. Richards plays the songs acoustic guitars as well as bass. Charlie Watts performs drums while Nicky Hopkins performs the song's piano which is most distinctly heard during the outro. Shehnai is performed on the track by Dave Mason. On the "Did Everybody Pay Their Dues" version, Rick Grech played a very prominent electric viola.
Released as Beggars Banquet's lead single on August 31, 1968, "Street Fighting Man" was popular on release but was kept out of the Top 40 (reaching number 48) of the US Charts in response to many radio stations refusal to play the song based on what were perceived as subversive lyrics. This attitude would be enforced as the song was released within a week of the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The B-side was album-mate "No Expectations". "Street Fighting Man" would not be released in the United Kingdom until 1970.

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1968 Rolling Stones Street Fighting Man Classic Rock 60's Beggars Banquet Jagger Keith Richards Brian Jones

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steveconn (1 day ago) Show Hide

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Brian may have been on sitar, some say Dave Mason.

silverdollar3 (2 days ago) Show Hide

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Yes ! .. a very good job, so THANKS !

Aldebaron9 (5 days ago) Show Hide

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....luv the sitar.......

drinkabit2much (1 week ago) Show Hide

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After watching this several times, just
gotta say, good job, that particular song is still intense, Brian Jones sorted that one out......

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what a killer song!!.... Peace and Love in circa late sixties London....just no place for a.....

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Where did you hear about Mick and Keith killing Brain? Im Interested..

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nice to see Brian Jones in this.

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When this you see, remember me and bear me in your mind.
Let all the world say what they may, speak of me as you find.

Brian Jones (9143-1969)

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