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| Length = 3:09, 3:14 (album version) | Label = London 45 LON 909 (US) | Writer = Jagger/Richards | Producer = Jimmy Miller | Last single = "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1968) | This single = "Street Fighting Man" (1968) | Next single = "Honky Tonk Women" (1969) | Misc = }} "Street Fighting Man" is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones featured on their 1968 album ''Beggars Banquet''. Called the band's "most political song",〔("Street Fighting Man" ). ''Rolling Stone''. 2004 (accessed 23 July 2007).〕 ''Rolling Stone'' ranked the song #301 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. ==Inspiration== Originally titled and recorded as "Did Everyone Pay Their Dues?", containing the same music but very different lyrics, "Street Fighting Man" is known as one of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' most politically inclined works to date. Jagger allegedly wrote it about Tariq Ali after Jagger attended a March 1968 anti-war rally at London's U.S. embassy, during which mounted police attempted to control a crowd of 25,000.〔Azania, Malcolm. ("Tariq Ali: The time is right for a palace revolution" ). ''Vue Weekly''. 2008(accessed 14 November 2008).〕〔("Street Fighting Man" ). ''Rolling Stone''. 2004 (accessed 22 July 2007).〕 He also found inspiration in the rising violence among student rioters on Paris's Left Bank,〔Roy Carr, ''The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record'', Harmony Books, 1976. ISBN 0-517-52641-7. p. 55.〕 the precursor to May 1968. On the writing, Jagger said in a 1995 interview with Jann Wenner in ''Rolling Stone'', The song opens with a strummed acoustic riff. In his review, Richie Unterberger says of the song, "...it's a great track, gripping the listener immediately with its sudden, springy guitar chords and thundering, offbeat drums. That unsettling, urgent guitar rhythm is the mainstay of the verses. Mick Jagger's typically half-buried lyrics seem at casual listening like a call to revolution." Unterberger continues, "Perhaps they were saying they wished they could be on the front lines, but were not in the right place at the right time; perhaps they were saying, as John Lennon did in the Beatles' "Revolution", that they didn't want to be involved in violent confrontation. Or perhaps they were even declaring indifference to the tumult."〔 Other writers' interpretations varied. In 1976, Roy Carr assessed it as a "great summer street-corner rock anthem on the same echelon as 'Summer in the City', 'Summertime Blues', and 'Dancing in the Street'."〔 In 1979, Dave Marsh wrote that it was the keynote of ''Beggars Banquet'', "with its teasing admonition to do something and its refusal to admit that doing it will make any difference; as usual, the Stones were more correct, if also more faithless, philosophers than any of their peers."〔Rolling Stone Record Guide, Rolling Stone Press, 1979. ISBN 0-394-73535-8.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Street Fighting Man」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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