"Beast of Burden" was recorded in the last months of 1977, but at the beginning of the year, Richards was in trouble. He and his partner, Anita Pallenberg, had been arrested in Toronto, Canada, for heroin and cocaine possession. It was an offense with up to seven years in prison, and would gloom over the rest of the year and the band's future.
“All I did was throw out the phrase ‘beast of burden’ to Mick,” said Richards, according to UDiscoverMusic, “and I played him the music, and then he took it off by himself and did a beautiful job on it.”
The track's backstory has some differences depending on Richards' or Jagger's version. Jagger once commented that the track's lyrics weren't "particularly heartfelt in a personal way," and instead were a "soul-begging song" and an "attitude song." On the other hand, Richards once revealed it was his way of apologizing to Jagger because of the trouble he caused with his drug use.
The theory led many fans to interpret the track's lyrics of "All your sickness, I can suck it up/Throw it all at me/I can shrug it off" as part of it played out on Jagger's end. He laughed off the theory, stating the lyrics were something he "made up." Richards would admit years later that the track is "undecodable." Regardless, "Beast of Burden" became a comeback for the band after a year of turmoil.
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