500 Greatest Songs of All Time
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The Rolling Stones, 'Street Fighting Man'
Writers: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
Producer: Jimmy Miller
Released: Aug. '68, London
6 weeks; No. 48
The Stones' most political song came about after Jagger went to a March 1968 anti-war rally at London's U.S. embassy, with mounted police wading into a crowd of 25,000. The distorted drone was built on acoustic guitars pumped through a mono cassette recorder.
Appears on: Beggars Banquet (ABKCO)
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