Word: banqueteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest musicians that the London rock-renaissance has yet produced. For years he has been a mysterious presence on the records of nearly every major British group. His latest triumphs include the piano bits on the Beatles' "Revolution" and the Stones' forthcoming album "Beggar's Banquet," some tracks of which, reportedly, he virtually dominates. A slim slight man of stooping build, he is shy and gentle. Big glistening eyes and a relaxing smile...
...always felt it belonged: on a lavatory wall. The cover of the Stones' latest-and as yet unreleased-album is a photo of a graffiti-covered wall above an unpleasant-looking toilet. The name "The Rolling Stones" appears plainly, as do the title of the album, Beggars' Banquet, and the names of the tunes it contains. Scrawled in smaller letters are sly references by the Stones to themselves and their friends, as well as such phrases as "God rolls his own" and "Lyndon loves Mao," plus a bit of familiar bathroom doggerel...
...keeping with a widespread mood in the pop world, Beggars' Banquet turns back to the raw vitality of Negro rhythm-and-blues and the authentic simplicity of country music. This is home ground for the Stones and, among white groups, they are all but unbeatable on it. But the album still will not please listeners who lack a taste for musical graffiti. How could it, with songs like the slow, bluesy Stray Cat, addressed to a 15-year-old girl ("Bet your mama don't know you can bite like that")? Or the driving, syncopated Street Fighting...
While the impasse over the release of Beggars' Banquet drags on, the Stones are already conjuring more headaches for Decca. They hint that the cover of their next album may make the bathroom wall of Beggars' Banquet look cute by comparison. Its subject: the Pope...
...congress. After Iakovos went out of his way to praise Greece's past democratic political tradition, the country's military regime ordered newspapers to curtail their coverage of the congress. George Papadopoulos, the strongman of the ruling junta, pointedly failed to show up at the climactic banquet, pleading a sprained ankle. Archbishop Ieronymos, Primate of the Greek church, agreed to show up at the dinner only after it was made clear to him that he was the guest of honor...