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The Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man (Live 1983) Artist : The Rolling Stones Song : Street Fighting Man Album : Beggars Banquet (1968) “Street Fighting Man“ is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones featured on their 1968 album Beggars Banquet. Called the band’s “most political song,“ Rolling Stone ranked the song number 301 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Originally titled and recorded as “Did Everyone Pay Their Dues?“, containing the same music but very different lyrics, “Street Fighting Man“ is known as one of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards’ most politically inclined works to date. Jagger allegedly wrote it about Tariq Ali after he attended a 1968 anti-war rally at London’s US embassy, during which mounted police attempted to control a crowd of 25,000. He also found inspiration in the rising violence among student rioters on Paris’ Left Bank,[the precursor to a period of civil unrest in May 1968. The song was released within a week of the violent confrontations between th
