#185 The Rolling Stones, 'Beggars Banquet' (1968)

On The Rolling Stones’ 10th album, there was a major shift in leadership. Group founder and leader, Brian Jones, was mostly AWOL due to his heavy drug use, leaving Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to take the reigns. During the mid-60s, while on their many tours in the US, Richards would collect records but never had time to listen to them. In late ’66 and early ’67 he decided to unwrap them and listen to what he had bought. This was the catalyst for the band to start writing songs about their version of America, inspired by these records.