It’s the kind of record you love to make.” “When we finished recording ‘Street Fighting Man’ and played back the master, I just smiled. “That’s where the vision met reality,” he said. Richards, specifically, remembered “Street Fighting Man” fondly when he was interviewed about the song by Marc Meyers for The Wall Street Journal in 2013. But while it didn’t catch fire on the charts at the time, it has since grown to become one of the Stones’ signature songs and has been featured in the setlists of many of the band’s tours since. Some radio stations refused to play the song, worried that it would incite further violence.
“Street Fighting Man” was released in the US in August of 1968, right as protestors were clashing with police in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention. Threaded throughout are other gracefully psychedelic touches like the drone of a sitar (played by Brian Jones) and a shehnai, a reed instrument used in Indian music (played by Traffic member Dave Mason). While that was augmented in the studio with a bigger bass drum sound, the tinny slap of that tiny trap set proved to be the perfect backdrop for Jagger’s forceful vocal and Richards’ bassline. The other key element was Charlie Watts’ use of an antique practice drum kit that came packed in a small suitcase. The music for the song actually began well before the band hit Olympic Sound Studios to lay down the tracks for “Street Fighting Man.” The year before, Richards had been searching for a guitar tone he had in his head – a “dry, crisp sound,” as he put it, that he only achieved through playing a close-miked acoustic guitar into an early cassette recorder. The earliest settled line-up consisted of Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Ian Stewart (keyboards, piano), Mick Jagger (lead vocals, harmonica), Keith Richards (guitar, vocals), Bill Wyman (bass) and Charlie Watts (drums). Their work together generated perhaps the song’s most famous couplet: the self-damning “But what can a poor boy do/except to sing in a rock ‘n’ roll band?” The Rolling Stones originally recorded Street Fighting Man written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and The Rolling Stones released it on the single Street. The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in Dartford in 1962. In the studio, Jagger bounced ideas off Richards, writing them down as they went, before they cut the paper up and rearranged the elements.
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