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Crucial Vinyl: Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones

The Don's Crucial Vinyl, an album that has shaped his musical taste, is Beggars Banquet, released by The Rolling Stones in 1968.

Each week Don selects a piece of Crucial Vinyl (an album that has shaped his musical taste and helped make him who he is). He features three tracks from it and explains why it means so much to him.

This week he picks Beggars Banquet released by The Rolling Stones in 1968.

Don says, "As a young kid I was already hip to the Stones through their singles, but Beggars Banquet came into my life via my father, St. Ledger Letts, who walked in with it tucked under his arm one day!

Now even at the tender age of 12 I realised that this was totally out of character for him, as his taste at that time included artists such as Nat King Cole, Toots and the Maytal and Jim Reeves. He passed away
some years ago, and I never did ask him what possessed him to buy it. But I distinctly remember being totally captivated by tracks like Street Fighting Man and Sympathy for The Devil."

Don's other selections include Keith Hudson, The XX, Sun Ra and Anna Calvi.

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Music Played

  • Attaque

    Change Your Mind

  • Basement Jaxx

    What's The News

    • Junto.
    • Atlantic Jaxx.
    • 6.

  • Anna Calvi

    I'm The Man That Will Find You

  • Claire Nicholson & Yellowhammer

    You And I

  • Dan The Automator & Mary Elizabeth Winstead

    I'll Never Hold You Back

  • Melanie De Biasio

    I'm Gonna Leave You

  • The Deltones

    I'll Take You There

    • The Ultimate Trojan Club Reggae Box Set: Trojan Singles Box Set CD2.

  • Jorge Drexler

    High And Dry

  • Earl 16 Meets Manasseh

    Zion City

  • Electric W眉rms

    Futuristic Hallucination

  • Nick Hakim

    Pour Another

    • (single).
    • Earseed Records.

  • Keith Hudson

    Musicology Dub

  • King Midas Sound

    Come & Behold / Green Gartside Re-Voice

  • Love Maximum

    I've Been Trying

  • Prince Fari/Errol Holt

    Yes Yes Yes

  • Prince Fatty Meets Nostalgia

    Quiet Dawn

    • In The Kingdom Of Dub.
    • Tru Thoughts.
    • 8.

  • Real Lies

    Dab Housing

  • The Rolling Stones

    Street Fighting Man

  • The Rolling Stones

    No Expectations

  • The Rolling Stones

    Sympathy For The Devil

  • Sampha

    Too Much

  • Sandeeno

    Original Veteran

  • The Seshen

    Oblivion

  • Paul Simon

    The Boy In The Bubble

  • Sun Ra

    Somewhere In Space

  • Swim Mountain

    Yesterday

  • Tops

    Way To Be Loved

  • We Are Shining

    Hey You

  • Stevie Wonder

    I Wish

  • The xx

    Angels

Broadcast

  • Sun 7 Sep 2014 22:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music