Artist: THE ROLLING STONES
Album: BEGGARS BANQUET REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1968/ 2002
Media type: CD

Beggars Banquet is the seventh British and ninth American studio album by English rock band The Rolling Stones. It was released in December 1968 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States. The album was a return to roots rock for the band following the psychedelic pop of their 1967 album Their Satanic Majesties Request.

In August 2002, ABKCO Records reissued Beggars Banquet as a newly remastered LP and SACD/CD hybrid disk. This release corrected an important flaw in the original album by restoring each song to its proper, slightly faster speed. Due to an error in the mastering, Beggars Banquet was heard for over thirty years at a slower speed than it was recorded. This had the effect of altering not only the tempo of each song, but the song's key as well. These differences were subtle but important, and the remastered version is about 30 seconds shorter than the original release.

All songs written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

TRACKLIST:
No. Title Length 

1. "Sympathy for the Devil"   6:18
2. "No Expectations"   3:56
3. "Dear Doctor"   3:28
4. "Parachute Woman"   2:20
5. "Jigsaw Puzzle"   6:06

6. "Street Fighting Man"   3:16
7. "Prodigal Son" (Robert Wilkins) 2:51
8. "Stray Cat Blues"   4:38
9. "Factory Girl"   2:09
10. "Salt of the Earth"   4:48

LINE-UP:

Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, harmonica on "Parachute Woman" (outro)
Keith Richards – acoustic, electric and slide guitars, bass guitar on "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man," backing vocals, lead vocals on opening of "Salt of the Earth"
Brian Jones – slide guitar on "No Expectations", harmonica on "Parachute Woman", "Dear Doctor" and "Prodigal Son", mellotron on "Jigsaw Puzzle" and "Stray Cat Blues", sitar and tamboura on "Street Fighting Man", backing vocals on "Sympathy for the Devil"
Charlie Watts – drums, backing vocals and cowbell on "Sympathy for the Devil", clave on "No Expectations", tabla on "Factory Girl"
Bill Wyman – bass guitar, backing vocals and maracas on "Sympathy for the Devil"

Additional personnel:

Nicky Hopkins – piano, tack piano, organ
Rocky Dijon – congas on "Sympathy for the Devil", "Stray Cat Blues" and "Factory Girl"
Ric Grech – fiddle on "Factory Girl"
Dave Mason – shehnai on "Street Fighting Man", mellotron (mandolin setting) on "Factory Girl"
Jimmy Miller – backing vocals on "Sympathy for the Devil"
Watts Street Gospel Choir – backing vocals on "Salt of the Earth"