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Street Fighting Man By: The Rolling Stones Instruments: C Major Product Type: The Arrangement Details Tab gives you detailed information about this particular arrangement of Street Fighting Man - not necessarily the song.
Not the arrangement you were looking for? The Rolling Stones Number of Pages: Mick Jagger Keith Richards Lyricists: Mick Jagger Keith Richards Date: Ev 'rywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy. Perhaps they were saying they wished they could be on the front lines, but were not in the right place at the right time; perhaps they were saying, as John Lennon did in the Beatles' "Revolution," that they didn't want to be involved in violent confrontation. Or perhaps they were even declaring indifference to the tumult.
As for his musical contribution, Jagger makes particularly effective use of his slurring style on the verses, elongating the ends of lines with a drawling insouciance. The noise that sounds like an electronic drone at parts particularly on the instrumental fadeout is actually a tamboura, played by Brian Jones in one of his most ingenious and little-noticed additions of an Eastern influence on a Stones recording.
Actually released as a single in the U. It has, nonetheless, been accepted as a core Stones classic by both listeners and classic rock radio.
Add your thoughts 18 Comments. May Learn how and when to remove this template message. Mick Jagger Keith Richards. Dave Mason Backing Vocals: The US single version was released in mono with an additional vocal overdub on the choruses, and thus is different from the Beggars Banquet album's stereo version.
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No Replies Log in to reply. There was an error. General Comment one of the great protest songs of all time.
This song was actually banned at a chicago vietnam rally for fear of causing a riot. Definitley a rally starting kind of song. General Comment I thought the king lyric was right. It's quite funny trying to imagine Mick Jagger as a street fighting man General Comment Keith Richards fucked up tuning with the engaging rhythm is the backbone of this song. This is one of the most original rock songs of the 60s.
"Street Fighting Man" is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones featured on their album Beggars Banquet. Called the band's "most political song,". Street Fighting Man Lyrics: Everywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy / Because summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street.