Released on Beggar's Banquet, "Street Fighting Man" was written by Jagger and Keith Richards after the frontman attended an anti-war rally at London's U.S. Embassy where mounted police tried to control a crowd of over 20,000. As Jagger explained in a 1995 Rolling Stone interview with Jann Wenner, he was also inspired by protests happening outside of the U.K.
"There was all this violence going on," Jagger continued. "I mean, they almost toppled the government in France; [Charles] de Gaulle went into this complete funk, as he had in the past, and he went and sort of locked himself in his house in the country. And so the government was almost inactive. And the French riot police were amazing."
"'Street Fighting Man' was recorded on Keith's cassette with a 1930s toy drum kit called a London Jazz Kit Set, which I bought in an antiques shop, and which I've still got at home," Charlie Watts explained in the 2003 book According to the Rolling Stones.
"It came in a little suitcase, and there were wire brackets you put the drums in; they were like small tambourines with no jangles," Watts continued. "The snare drum was fantastic because it had a really thin skin with a snare right underneath, but only two strands of gut...Keith loved playing with the early cassette machines because they would overload, and when they overload they sounded fantastic, although you weren't meant to do that. We usually played in one of the bedrooms on tour. Keith would be sitting on a cushion playing a guitar and the tiny kit was a way of getting close to him. The drums were really loud compared to the acoustic guitar and the pitch of them would go right through the sound. You'd always have a great backbeat."
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"I'm rather pleased to hear they have banned ["Street Fighting Man"]. The last time they banned one of our records in America, it sold a million," Jagger said at the time, referring to "Let's Spend the Night Together."
"Of course it's subversive! It's stupid to think you can start a revolution with a record. I wish you could," he said, according to The Rolling Stones: Off the Record.
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