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"Sympathy for the Devil" is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones. The song was written by Mick Jagger and credited to the Jagger–Richards partnership. It is the opening track on the band's 1968 album Beggars Banquet .
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Oct 5, 2018 · Why Godard's controversial 'Sympathy for the Devil' is still an essential Stones movie 50 years later — and captures the end of an era.
Sympathy for the Devil: Directed by Yuval Adler. With Nicolas Cage, Joel Kinnaman, Alexis Zollicoffer, Cameron Lee Price. Forced to drive a passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse.
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For the Stones, 1967 had been a tumultuous year. That February, police had raided Keith Richards’ Sussex home, and charged the guitarist and Jagger with drug offenses. The resulting trial in June concluded with them both being sentenced to jail – Mick was to serve three months, Keith a whole year. Thanks to a tremendous show of public and media sup...
“The first time I ever heard the song,” remembered drummer Charlie Watts, “was when Mick was playing it at the front door of a house I lived in in Sussex. It was at dinner; he played it entirely on his own, the sun was going down – and it was fantastic.” In what he’d originally titled “The Devil Is My Name,” Mick had crafted a dark, sinuous tale in...
Inspired by the political upheavals in London, the pioneering French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard had opted to film his new movie in the city. As part of the ‘creation’ theme of the film, Godard had arranged to capture The Rolling Stones in Olympic Sound Studios. His timing was perfect; what he filmed in that first week of June was the complet...
The album Beggars Banquetwas released on December 6th, 1968, hitting the Top 5 in the US and UK. The raw, rocky songs testified to the Stones’ stylistic reversal, which saw them rediscover and deftly explore their blues roots, but it was the opening track, “Sympathy For The Devil,” which garnered the most attention. Subversive from their inception,...
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Jul 24, 2023 · Directed by Yuval Adler (The Operative) from a script by newcomer Luke Paradise, Sympathy is a short and sinister Las Vegas-set thriller that asks viewers the following basic question: What would...
Jul 24, 2023 · Nicolas Cage, in familiar manic mode, takes Joel Kinnaman for a ride in Yuval Adler's derivative, indistinct road thriller 'Sympathy for the Devil.'
Dec 31, 2023 · The song suggests that good and evil are not absolutes but exist within everyone, dependent on perspective and circumstance. ‘Sympathy for the Devil,’ in its poeticism and provocation, resonates beyond its initial era, capturing the timeless human struggle with sin and redemption.
