This course will survey the music of the Rolling Stones, beginning with the roots and first formation of the band in the early 1960s, and following the group through the release of It's Only Rock 'n' Roll in late 1974.
1968 in Review
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滚石乐队音乐，1962-1974
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John CovachProfessor of Music and Director
Institute for Popular Music
Let's have a look at 1968 as a way of preparing our discussion out of
their Satanic Majesties Request and into the album Beggar's Banquet and
sort of see what was going on in the career of the Rolling Stones.
In May of 1968, they released the now classic sort of
Stones rock anthem Jumpin' Jack Flash goes to number one
in the UK number one in the U.S., where it's released in June in this country,
May in the UK backed with a song called Child of the Moon.
I'll spend a little bit more time talking about Jumpin' Jack Flash
in a song close-up coming up.
So let's save our discussion there.
Child of the Moon, interesting.
But important thing to say about Jumpin' Jack Flash now just to kind of keep for
our reference, is that Jumpin' Jack Flash is usually seen as an indication of
a new direction for the Stones, and
that's usually supported by a remark that Brian Jones made you know,
we've discovered a kind of a new sound for the band.
And so a lot of critics have gone with that and said out with that,
that Sat, Satanic Majesty stuff, now it's Jumpin' Jack Flash.
Here we go.
The single that follows that in the summer of 68 in the U.S.
only is Street Fighting Man.
That's backed with the song No Expectations.
Again, I'm not going to say a lot about that now because those are going to be
part of a song close-up that's coming up.
But just to get a sense of, you know, June of 68, we've got Jumpin' Jack Flash,
August of 68, we've got Street Fighting Man in the United States.
It turns out that as a single,
Street Fighting Man is not released in the UK until the summer of 1971.
[LAUGH] So if somebody just got around, hey did we ever release that?
I don't think we did.
Oh. Let's release it.
And what they put on the back of it was a song called,
Surprise, Surprise, which goes back even farther.
We'll talk about that when we get to discussions Street Fighting Man.
Finally, Beggar's Banquet released in December of 1968, a full year after their
Satanic Majesties Request going to number five in the U.S., number three in the UK.
It's an indication of how much things have changed for
the Rolling Stones, that there are no tours in all of 1968.
There's just one live show.
They appear at the New Musical Express awards show.
New Musical Express, like Melody Maker,
Sounds, these were all music magazines in the UK, and they would have awards shows,
and bands will perform, the Beatles did tons of these, the Rolling Stones too.
So they do show up in May of 68 to play live, but there's no tours, no live gigs.
Brian unfortunately is busted for drugs in May of 1968.
That's probably not a good thing considering his mental state, and
in fact he's, continues to remain active on Beggar's Banquet, but
it's not going to be long before there's not much of the old Brian Jones left.
This is kind of his last hurrah.
So that gives us a picture of what's going on in 68.
Actually, you know, a couple of singles, an album that comes out, one live gig.
Not a tremendous amount of activity, but you might say,
well, are the Stones slowing down?
Well, everybody's slowing down at this point.
As we've made the transition from singles being the dominant thing,
which is the way it was during the 63 through 66, 67 period.
You needed to have three singles out a year.
So that you know every three or four months, there was a new single.
Hopefully, you would, we could a full life span of each single.
By the time new one came out,
the other one had gotten all the chart action it could possibly get.
And you'd start with a new one.
And that's the way you do it.
So you had to be bringing this material out every three or four months.
And you bring out albums as kind of extra things people could buy if
they really like the singles.
Well, when this, when the emphasis changes away from singles to the albums
themselves, usually Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the album that
really kind of firmly establishes this album oriented rock kind of idea.
Then it's the albums that are the important thing, and
they take longer to, to produce.
And so we see this with all groups that, you know,
if you can get an album a year at this point you're doing pretty good.
So at this point their Satanic Majesties Request December 67.
Beggar's Banquet that's December 68.
The Stones are really pretty much on track here.
They haven't really slowed down.
They've just changed their emphasis from the singles to the albums themselves.
And because of the artist mentality,
they just can't crank out cover versions anymore.
Each song has to kind of do something important or novel or
interesting, they can't just do the same thing over and over again, so the, it gets
a little bit harder to crank out a full album's worth of that kind of material.
So it's, it's not just that way for them, as I say, it's that way for
everybody, it's a sign of the times, just the way the business is.
Let's just take a minute to talk a little bit about video and
television with regard to the Rolling Stones.
Was, haven't said too much about it, we have, I've dropped some remarks here and
there as we've gone by, but let's sort of pull all that together.
During this period, 1968, they start to have numerous videos directed by
Michael Lindsay-Hogg including 2000 Light Years From Home,
Jumpin' Jack Flash, and Child of the Moon.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg is interesting because he ends up
directing Rock and Roll Circus, The Stones television show.
For the television broadcast that was supposed to be broadcast in December of
1968, but that Mick decided he didn't like the way it ended up looking and working
out so he sort of put the kabash on the broadcast, and it was never broadcast.
You can see it now on DVD or YouTube or wherever it is that you find video.
But at the time, it was recorded produced and, and, and
not done the Rock and Roll Circus included The Rolling Stone, performances by
The Rolling Stones including a fantastic performance of Sympathy for the Devil.
with, John Lennon is on that is on that show with Yoko Ono.
The Who A Quick One While He's Away, I think is what they do.
Jethro Tull does a, does a couple of numbers with Tony Iommi,
who would later be in Black Sabbath filling in on guitar, because
Mick Abrahams had just left the group, and Martin Barre had not yet joined the group.
So Tony Iommi sort of like did that gig um,as a favor to Ian Anderson.
And there are other, others on that, that show as well.
It was meant to promote the Beggar's Banquet, but the show was never aired.
Various explanations have been offered.
Some people say Mick didn't like it because he thought The Who
blew The Stones off the stage.
I've, I've watched the video, I don't think that's the case.
The Who are fine.
They put in a great performance,
thank you very much, but I think The Stones are awesome.
On that, and I think Sympathy for the Devil is absolutely a classic if
you haven't heard, seen them perform Sympathy for the Devil on the Rock and
Roll Circus, it's a must see if you're a Stones fan.
But Michael Lindsay-Hogg, interesting because he goes on to to
direct Let it Be, that ill fated Beatles movie where instead of being
the chronicle of a band making an album, it was a chronicle of a band breaking up.
And so Lindsay-Hogg had, had done television, BBC sort
of pop music television, so it already kind of knew these guys and became sort of
one of the go-to guys in this period 68, 69 as the kind of television guy.
The, the Rolling Stones had videos produced by other people.
We mentioned before Peter Whitehead and he's a he's an interesting fellow.
He had done, he did the video for Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, which remember,
was important to us because it had images of The Stones dressed as women.
And that I, I argued had a real impact on
how one would view the meaning of the lyrics there.
He also did video for Lady Jane, Let's Spend the Night Together, We Love You,
Dandelion Ruby Tuesday, and he also did a video of
the Pink Floyd doing their classic psychedelic track Interstellar Overdrive.
So this is a guy who was really part of that London scene at the end of the 1960s,
Peter Whitehead.
So this video component becomes increasingly important
because it helps us see how the, how the artist ideally wants to be viewed, and
how the images mix with the images in the lyrics and
the image of the band as they appear in their own promotion.
So it becomes increasingly important for us.
So we're going to keep an eye on that, as we go forward, I'll be talking about it
some more both this week and, and, and the weeks that follow.
Well let's move on to our discussion of the second big album for
this week's lectures.
Beggar's Banquet.
