Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution: They Call My [Hardcover]

The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet is one of the seminal albums in rock history. Arguably it not only marks the advent of the mature sound of the Rolling Stones but lays out a new blueprint for an approach to blues-based rock music that would endure for several decades. From its title to the dark themes that pervade some of its songs, Beggars Banquet reflected and helped define a moment marked by violence, decay, and upheaval. It marked a move away from the artistic sonic flourishes of psychedelic rock towards an embrace of foundational streams of American music  blues, country  that had always underpinned the music of the Stones but assumed new primacy in their music after 1968. This move coincided with, and anticipated, the roots moves that many leading popular music artists made as the 1960s turned toward a new decade; but unlike many of their peers whose music grew more soft and subdued as they embraced traditional styles, the music and attitude of the Stones only grew harder and more menacing, and their status as representatives of the dark underside of the 60s rock counterculture assumed new solidity. For the Rolling Stones, the 1960s ended and the 1970s began with the release of this album in 1968.

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