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Beggars Banquet

by: The Rolling Stones, Rolling Stones

Release Date August 27, 2002
I am the Stones Authority. This is a very special album for a number of reasons. It is the first album of the Stones second era. It is really the first post Brian Jones album. Sure he was there for the sessions, but so was the janitor, and that doesn't make him relevant. And, even though this is 1968, it is in a way the first post Sixties album by the Stones. This was the album that defined what the new Rolling Stones band would be as it transitioned to the Seventies, while the other great acts of the Sixties were coming apart or finding it impossible to make the transition to relevancy outside the context of the Sixties, this album established the fact that the Stones would remain relevant for some time to come. They would survive - and before ... Read More: