“Mick came in with a song, but it was very Dylan-esque. It was like a ballad. ‘No, no. Let’s rethink. What if we push the beat up a bit?’”: How The Rolling Stones created their Satanic, samba-fuelled masterpiece Sympathy For The Devil

Mick Jagger.

On Tuesday 4 June 1968, The Rolling Stones began recording a song that would come to be regarded as one of their greatest compositions.

The five members of the group arrived at Olympic Recording Studios in the leafy south-west London suburb of Barnes for what would be an 18-hour recording session.