The fifth of six episodes delivers footage of the band recording the “Beggars Banquet” classic, “Sympathy For The Devil”, at Olympic Studios in June 1968, as featured in Jean-Luc Godard’s film of the same name.
“That whole album gave us the opportunity to do these weirdo experiments,” explains Keith Richards, as the group embraced the use of multi-track recording during the project. “The magic of recording is you can actually capture an atmosphere, a feeling … and it’s there forever for everybody, and that turns it into the possibility of an art form. The recording itself – the technology of it – records it and you can listen to it back. Music history tells you it is a brand new invention.”
The Stones recorded “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” early in the “Beggars Banquet” sessions and released it as a standalone single while they continued laying down new material.
“You go in to make a record, it depends how you actually feel,” Keith adds, “and, definitely, we were starting to find The Rolling Stones.”
“Jumpin’ Jack Flash” topped the charts and a was a Top 10 hit in several countries during the summer of 1968, while “Beggars Banquet” was a Top 5 album following its release before year’s end.
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