All right Well, after all, it was you and me [3] The working title of the song was "The Devil Is My Name", having earlier been called "Fallen Angels". […] I knew that that was the ending because nobody told me about it. Woo hoo! [8] And the answer is "when after all it was you and me", which is a way of saying that "the devil is not the other one, but eventually each one of us. [Verse 4] When the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank Made damn sure that Pilate The recording of "Sympathy for the Devil" began at London's Olympic Sound Studios on June 4 1968 and continued into the next day; overdubs were done on June 8, 9, and 10. Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name, oh yeah The first time I ever heard the song was when Mick was playing it at the front door of a house I lived in in Sussex ... he played it entirely on his own ... and it was fantastic. Ah yeah [5], Furthermore, Jagger stated in the Rolling Stone interview: "it's a very long historical figure — the figures of evil and figures of good — so it is a tremendously long trail he's made as personified in this piece. In an interview with Creem, Jagger said, "[When people started taking us as devil worshippers], I thought it was a really odd thing, because it was only one song, after all. It started as sort of a folk song with acoustics and ended up as kind of a mad samba, with me playing bass and overdubbing the guitar later…That’s why I don’t like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned beforehand. The song was “Sympathy for the Devil”, the opening number on the Beggars Banquet album, both released on 6 December 1968. Washed his hands and sealed his fate Huh, huh, huh Tell me, baby, what's my name? Little by Little #7. There were also claims they had dabbled in Satanism[7] (their previous album, while containing no direct Satanic references in its music or lyrics, was titled Their Satanic Majesties Request). Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name, oh yeah "Sympathy for the Devil" Is a song by the rock band The Rolling Stones on their album, Beggars Banquet. Who get killed before they reach Bombay "Sympathy for the Devil" is perhaps the most notorious and controversial Rolling Stones song, as well as one of the greatest. Oh yeah Stole many a man's soul and faith [Guitar Solo] 392.4K 16,990. more tracks from the album No Security: San Jose 1999 #1. You Got Me Rocking #4. And I just took a couple of lines and expanded on it. 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Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name There was a rumor that this song was playing when a fan died at the Rolling Stones gig at the Altamont Free Concert, but it was actually “Under My Thumb.” Despite that, the Stones didn’t perform this song for at least 5 years (as they played it on tour in 1975) after the incident. Learn to play "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones at Chuck Leavell's irocku.com. Sympathy for the Devil doesn't even sound like the same song. It is the opening track on their 1968 album Beggars Banquet. As the most famous tune on their 1968 album, Beggars Banquet (rivaled only, perhaps, by that LP's "Street Fighting Man"), it came out at a time when the Stones were increasingly flirting with a satanic public image. 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