This Day In Music

March 15, 1968 saw The Rolling Stones begin the recording sessions that would result in their seventh studio album, Beggars Banquet. This would start the Stones on a six year run of creativity that rivals any other period of music production of the rock era. The period of 1968-1974 would see the Stones turn out classics such as Let It Bleed, Exile on Main Street, and Sticky Fingers. But it all started with Beggars Banquet. Starting their turn into country inspired rock, away from the psychedelic influences of their earlier records, this album is known for the burning, legendary lead track Sympathy For The Devil. But it is the less famous classics such as Salt Of The Earth and Factory Girl that shows how brave and confident the Stones were at this time in their writing. Reinforced by Street Fighting Man, to make doubters realize they still had the rock power they were known for, this album was a signal of what was soon to come.