"Sympathy for the Devil" is a song by English rock band THE ROLLING STONES, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. It is the opening track on their 1968 album "Beggars Banquet".
"Sympathy for the Devil" is credited to Jagger and Richards, though the song was largely a Jagger composition. The working title of the song was "The Devil Is My Name", having earlier been called "Fallen Angels". Jagger sings in first person narrative as the Devil, boasting his role in each of several historical atrocities. The singer then ironically demands our courtesy towards him, implicitly chastising the listener for our collective culpability in the listed killings and crimes. In the 2012 documentary Crossfire Hurricane, Jagger stated that his influence for the song came from Baudelaire and from the Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita (which had just appeared in English translation in 1967). The book was given to Jagger by Marianne Faithfull and she confirmed the inspiration in an interview with Sylvie Simmons from the magazine Mojo in 2005.
Forge’s rendition was conducted via his latest persona, Papa Emeritus IV, the fourth guise in GHOSTs epic line of ghoulish frontmen. Enjoy today's cover.
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