Beggar’s Banquet could be seen as the album that saved the Rolling Stones. After a period of complete anarchy, disruption and serious directionless, everything came together. Most importantly, the songwriting became more powerful and focused.

The ‘bad boys of rock and roll’ no longer needed to posture for their image, but that didn’t stop Mick Jagger from grabbing lyrical themes that were rebellious if not outright perverse in nature. “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” portrayed the vocalist as a fictional character capable of surviving myriad disasters. “Street Fighting Man” made blatant reference to the youth rebellions sweeping the world in 1968, while other songs were more personal in their rebellious nature. If it’s a true story, “Stray Cat Blues” could have resulted in a jail sentence for violation of the Mann act (yet another subliminal tip of the hat to Chuck Berry?).

For the first time, the band had more material than they needed so a lot of songs went unreleased at the time. As many of them appeared on later collections, we round out this show with the remainders from the Beggar’s Banquet recording sessions.

Featured tracks include;

1) Street Fighting Man

2) Stray Cat Blues

3) Factory Girl

4) Salt of the Earth

5) Downtown Suzie

6) Family

7) Memo From Turner

8) Jiving Sister Fanny

9) I’m Going Down

10) I Don’t Know Why