- rock, blues rock, classic rock, album rock
- 40 min
- 10 tracks
- Decca Records
Beggars Banquet is the seventh studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 6 December 1968 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States. It was the first Rolling Stones album produced by Jimmy Miller, whose production work formed a key aspect of the Rolling Stones' sound throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Character
Spare, character-led, grave and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
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Metacritic 87/100
- AllMusic5/5 ★
- And It Don't StopA
- Boston Herald4/4 ★
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music5/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyA
- The Great Rock Discography10/10
- MusicHound Rock4.5/5
- NME8/10
- Rolling Stone5/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide5/5 ★
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Tracks
- A1Sympathy for the Devil6:19
- A2No Expectations3:57
- A3Dear Doctor3:22
- A4Parachute Woman2:21
- A5Jig‐Saw Puzzle6:06
- B1Street Fighting Man3:16
- B2Prodigal Son2:52
- B3Stray Cat Blues4:38
- B4Factory Girl2:09
- B5Salt of the Earth4:47
10 tracks, 40 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Rolling Stones
- Label
- Decca Records
- Released
- December 6, 1968
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- GB
From MusicBrainz, the earliest official release of this album.
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