Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
- First released
- 6 December 1968
- Tracks on this edition
- 10
- Running time
- 39:48
The cover
Beggars Banquet first appeared in an invitation-style sleeve after the proposed graffiti-covered toilet photograph was rejected. Photographer Michael Joseph told The London Magazine that his banquet scene at Sarum Chase became the inner gatefold. He recalled Mick Jagger hand-colouring the black-and-white print used in the package.
Gatefold photograph: Michael Joseph; Hand-colouring of gatefold print: Mick Jagger, per Joseph
Image via Cover Art Archive / MusicBrainz source release
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What critics said
Dave Lifton’s Ultimate Classic Rock retrospective regards Beggars Banquet as the Stones’ first thoroughly successful album. He hears the group building on electric blues rather than simply returning to it, with acoustic guitars and African rhythms extending the music’s range.
Tracklist
UK edition · 6 December 1968
Select a song for details
- A1Sympathy for the Devil6:19
- A2No Expectations3:57
- A3Dear Doctor3:22
- A4Parachute Woman2:21
- A5Jig‐Saw Puzzle6:06
- B1Street Fighting Man3:16
- B2Prodigal Son2:52
- B3Stray Cat Blues4:38
- B4Factory Girl2:09
- B5Salt of the Earth4:47
Sources & coverage
About these numbers
Concert figures describe 2,181 distinct archive record IDs from 1962-07-12 to 2024-07-21. Separate same-day record IDs remain separate; they have not all been reviewed as unique performed concerts.
1,506 records have stored song entries; 675 do not. Complete-setlist coverage is not established. Missing entries do not establish that a song was not played.
Song observations count distinct record IDs with a matching title after playback entries are excluded. These are documented appearances, not verified full-song performances. Tour groupings can include warm-up dates.
- MusicBrainz — album identities, editions and track programmes
The catalogue import contains core metadata only. Cover artwork and critical responses have separate sources in the sections above. Annotations, genre associations and database ratings remain excluded.
MusicBrainz data licence - setlist.fm — concert history and setlists
Concert dates, venues and setlists from the editor-supplied archive. Every concert page credits setlist.fm and links to its original record. Song observations are calculated by Glimmer Wire from those entries, with playback excluded.
Snapshot: 2026-10-03T21:42:51Z. Original database supplied and factually approved by the editor; normalized and calculated by Glimmer Wire. Counts can change when records or identities are corrected.
Calculation record
Concert records: distinct concert.setlist_id. Country groups: concert.country_code. Stored entries: records with non-playback setlist_song rows. Song appearances: distinct concert_song.setlist_id matched to setlist_song by record ID, position and exact raw title, excluding tape = 1. This does not use a complete-setlist percentage denominator.
Snapshot SHA-256: 7e86a3e2d0670574fd1e8bf42cd9e4dc99d3325db8db1b471707805387b00e5a
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