The Rolling Stones’ 1968 album Beggars Banquet has been expanded for a 50th anniversary vinyl edition due out November 16th.
The album has been remastered, and this collection includes both the original album cover of a vandalized toilet wall, as well the the ‘RSVP’ artwork that replaced it. There is also a mono 45-rpm 12-inch single of “Sympathy for the Devil” with an etching of the “toilet artwork” adorning the B-side, plus a flexi-disc of a Mick Jagger interview that replicates one issued by King Records in Japan to accompany the original album’s Japanese release. The album will also be available on CD, but without the bonus tracks.
Beggars Banquet track list:
- Sympathy for the Devil
- No Expectations
- Dear Doctor
- Parachute Woman
- Jigsaw Puzzle
- Street Fighting Man
- Prodigal Son
- Stray Cat Blues
- Factory Girl
- Salt of the Earth
A lyric video for “Street Fighting Man” has been produced:
On October 5, the Stones will also be releasing “Sympathy for the Devil” aka “One Plus One,” the Jean-Luc Goddard-directed film documenting the writing and recording of that classic song.
Then in 2019, we can also expect “The Rock and Roll Circus” to have a new reissue. Planned as a BBC special, the December 1968 all-star performance was headlined by the Stones and featured John Lennon and Yoko Ono (with Eric Clapton), The Who, Marianne Faithfull, Jethro Tull and others. The footage was shelved for decades when the Stones were unhappy with their six-song performance.
