rolling stones album beggars banquet was with sympathy for the devil.
rolling stones album beggars banquet was with sympathy for the devil.
rolling stones album with sympathy for the devil?
beggars banquet
brian jones, the band's founder and early leader, had become increasingly unreliable in the studio due to his drug use, and it was the last rolling stones album to be released during his lifetime, though he also contributed to two songs on their next album "let it bleed", which was released after his death. nearly all rhythm and lead guitar parts were recorded by keith richards, the band's other guitarist and primary songwriting partner of the band's lead singer mick jagger; together the two wrote all but one of the tracks on the album. rounding out the instrumentation were bassist bill wyman and drummer charlie watts, though all members contributed on a variety of instruments. as with most albums of the period, frequent collaborator nicky hopkins played piano on many of the tracks. the album was the first rolling stones album produced by jimmy miller, whose production work formed a key aspect of the rolling stones sound throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s.
beggars banquet
the split between klein and the stones led to years of litigation. in 1971 the stones sued klein over u.s. publishing rights. the suit was settled the following year, with the stones receiving $1.2 million as a settlement of all american royalties earned up to that point (and was essentially the $1.25m advance that decca had paid the stones in 1965 that klein had been withholding since august 1965). however, the stones were unable to break their contract with klein, who held an additional $2 million of the stones' money to be paid over a 15-year period, ostensibly for tax purposes. klein's company, abkco, continued to control the rights to publish the stones' music and it was klein who made a fortune off the band's all-time best-selling album, "hot rocks 1964–1971". in 1972 klein alleged that some of the songs on their album "exile on main street" had been composed while the stones were still under contract with abkco. as a result, abkco acquired ownership of the disputed songs and was able to publish another rolling stones album, "more hot rocks (big hits and fazed cookies)". in 1974 negotiations over royalties led to a payment of $375,000 to the stones and abkco's release of an additional rolling stones album, "metamorphosis". in 1975 more lawsuits and negotiations resulted in a $1m payment to the stones for non-payment by klein of songwriting royalties, and the release of four rolling stones albums including "rock and roll circus" and "". in 1984 jagger and richards sued to break their publishing agreement with abkco because of non-payment of royalties. the judge encouraged the two sides to reach a settlement.
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