![]() That was a particularly trenchant message in 1968, when there actually was a lot of fighting in the streets: in American race riots, at the Chicago Democratic convention, and as students and workers went on strike in Paris. Mick Jagger's typically half-buried lyrics seem at casual listening like a call to revolution: summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the streets. That unsettling, urgent guitar rhythm is the mainstay of the verses. Lyrical content aside, it's a great track, gripping the listener immediately with its sudden, springy guitar chords and thundering, offbeat drums. "Street Fighting Man" is one of the most political of all Stones songs, even if it is, like much of their material in general, pretty ambivalent in stance. Other than, possibly, "Sympathy for the Devil," "Street Fighting Man" was the best song on the Rolling Stones' 1968 album, Beggars Banquet, and a classic single, although exposure problems kept it on the fringes of the Top 40. ![]()
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