1968 - The Rolling Stones
The
Rolling Stones started daily sessions at Olympic Studios in London to start recording their next album,
Beggars Banquet. Working from 7pm to 8am each day without a break, the Stones worked on 'Jumpin’ Jack Flash', 'Child Of The Moon', 'Jigsaw Puzzle' and 'Parachute Woman' as well as the instrumental foundation for a song called 'Did Everybody Paid Their Dues?' (which would later become 'Street Fighting Man').
From wiki wiki:
Beggars Banquet is a
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; it is the band's seventh British and ninth American studio album. The recording marked a change in direction for the band following the
psychedelic pop of their previous two albums,
Between the Buttons and
Their Satanic Majesties Request.
[2] Styles such as
roots rock and a return to the
blues rock sound that had marked early Stones recordings dominate the record, and the album is among the most instrumentally experimental of the band's career, as they infuse
Latin beats and instruments like the
claves alongside South Asian sounds from the
tanpura,
tabla and
shehnai and African-influenced
conga rhythms. Its release marks the beginning of the most critically acclaimed period of the Rolling Stones' career.
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.
