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"How He Loves"
Single by John Mark McMillan
from the album The Song Inside the Sounds of Breaking Down
Released
November 28, 2005
Format
Digital download
Genre
Contemporary worship music, Christian alternative rock
Length
7:58
Songwriter(s)
John Mark McMillan
"How He Loves" is a song by independent artist John Mark McMillan for his second studio album, The Song Inside the Sounds of Breaking Down. The song was successful despite the album's independent release, and has been covered by several well-known artists within the Christian music industry (David Crowder Band, Kim Walker, Todd Agnew, New Breed, Flyleaf, The Glorious Unseen) and Anthony Evans from the popular singing TV Show: The Voice. It has also been covered in Spanish by Christine D'Clario and Seth Condrey.
Contents
1 Background
2 David Crowder Band version
2.1 Awards
3 References
4 External links
Background[edit]
McMillan wrote "How He Loves" following the death of his best friend, Stephen Coffey.[1] Coffey was a youth minister for MorningStar Ministries. On November 1, 2002, during a church prayer meeting, Coffey prayed out loud "I'd give my life today if it would shake the youth of the nation."[2] That very night, he was in a multi-car accident and died of serious injuries.[3]
Meanwhile, McMillan was recording in a studio in Jacksonville, Florida when he received a call that two of his friends had been critically injured in a car accident. Later that evening, he received another call from his father who informed McMillan that Coffey had died.[4] The next day, McMillan wrote "How He Loves" as a tribute to Coffey and out of a need "to have some sort of conversation with God" where he could speak to his frustrations and emotions over his best friend's death.[5]
According to McMillan, the love that he's singing about in "How He Loves" is not a pretty, "Hollywood hot-pink" love. It is a kind of love that is willing to love even when things are difficult and messy. He says, "This song isn't a celebration of weakness and anger. It's a celebration of a God who would want to hang with us through those things, who would want to be a part of our lives through those things, and, despite who we are, He would want to be a part of us, our community, and our family."[6]
David Crowder Band version[edit]
"How He Loves"
Single by David Crowder Band
from the album Church Music
Released
2009
Format
Digital download
Genre
Worship, CCM
Label
Sixsteps
Songwriter(s)
John Mark McMillan
David Crowder Band singles chronology
"Never Let Go"
(2007) "How He Loves"
(2009) "Alleluia, Sing"
(2009)
"Never Let Go"
(2007) "How He Loves"
(2009) "Alleluia, Sing"
(2009)
Contemporary Christian band David Crowder Band recorded How He Loves for their ninth studio album, Church Music. It was released as the album's lead single in 2009. For the band's version, Crowder received permission from McMillan to change the lyrics from "sloppy wet kiss" to "unforeseen kiss".[7] DCB's cover helped propel the already popular song to greater rotation on Christian radio, peaking at No. 8 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart in 2009.[8]
"How He Loves" was also by the compilation album WOW Hits 2010 with the radio version.
Awards[edit]
In 2010, this version of the song was nominated for a Dove Award for Rock/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year at the 41st GMA Dove Awards.[9]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Kevin Selders. "The Heart of John Mark McMillan". RELEVANT Magazine. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
Jump up ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20110612164115/http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcmr8i_the-story-behind-how-he-loves_music. Archived from the original on June 12, 2011. Retrieved May 8, 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
Jump up ^ Elmer, Anne. "UPDATE ON MORNINGSTAR STAFF MEMBERS ACCIDENT: Steve Coffey goes home to be with the Lord". Elijahlist.com. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
Jump up ^ "John Mark McMillan Artist Profile | Biography And Discography". NewReleaseTuesday.com. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
Jump up ^ (marker 1:13) Archived September 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ (marker 4:18) Archived September 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ "How He Loves, David Crowder, and Sloppy Wet Kisses… « johnmarkmcmillan". Johnmarkmcmillan.wordpress.com. 2009-09-14. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
Jump up ^ "Christian Songs". Billboard.com. 2009-12-19. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
Jump up ^ 41st Annual GMA Dove Awards nominees announced on The Tennessean (February 18, 2010)
External links[edit]
How He Loves: A Song Story (John Mark McMillan's Vimeo) mini-documentary
David Crowder*Band version
Kim Walker version
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Lovin' You
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"Lovin' You"
Single by Minnie Riperton
from the album Perfect Angel
B-side
"The Edge of a Dream"
Released
January 13, 1975
Recorded
1974
Genre
Soul
Length
3:21 (radio edit)
3:46 (album version)
Label
Epic 32561
Songwriter(s)
Minnie Riperton
Richard Rudolph
Producer(s)
Stevie Wonder and Richard Rudolph (as Scorbu Productions)[1]
Minnie Riperton singles chronology
"Seeing You This Way"
(1974) "Lovin' You"
(1975) "Inside My Love"
(1975)
"Seeing You This Way"
(1974) "Lovin' You"
(1975) "Inside My Love"
(1975)
Perfect Angel track listing
"Every Time He Comes Around"
(7) "Lovin' You"
(8) "Our Lives"
(9)
"Lovin' You" is a 1975 hit single originally performed by American singer Minnie Riperton from her album Perfect Angel (1974). It was written by Riperton and Richard Rudolph, produced by Stevie Wonder and Richard Rudolph, and released on January 13, 1975.
It became a number 1 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 on April 5, 1975. Additionally, it reached number 2 on the UK Singles chart, and number 3 on the Billboard R&B chart. In the US, Billboard ranked it as the number 13 song for 1975. The song is especially known for Riperton's use of the high whistle register in the song's bridge, and for the chirping songbirds heard throughout.
Contents
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1 Setting
2 Uses in popular culture
3 Chart performance
3.1 Weekly charts
3.2 Year-end charts
3.3 Certifications
4 Shanice version
4.1 Track listing
4.2 Charts
4.3 Personnel
5 References
6 External links
Setting[edit]
It was the fourth single from Riperton's album Perfect Angel (1974). As with the rest of the album, the keyboard backing is played by Stevie Wonder (credited as "El Toro Negro", Spanish for the black bull, as Wonder is a Taurus).
"Lovin' You" was among the first of several songs to top the U.S. pop chart without the help of a percussion instrument. Prior examples of percussion-less Number Ones were Jim Croce – "Time in a Bottle" (1973), The Beatles – "Yesterday" (1965), and on the UK Singles Chart, The Beatles – "Eleanor Rigby" (1966).
According to the liner notes from Riperton's compilation album Petals, the melody for "Lovin' You" was created to be a distraction for her baby daughter (Maya Rudolph) so that Minnie and her husband Richard could hang out. Maya was in the studio with Riperton on the day it was recorded and Riperton can be heard singing her daughter's name at the end, but only in the unedited or album version. The song fades out early in the radio edit because the disc jockeys felt that the repeated "Maya" was being overdone and that it would be misunderstood as a religious chant.
Uses in popular culture[edit]
"Lovin' You (Minnie Riperton)"
The intro and first verse (couplet) from Lovin' You (1974) by Minnie Riperton.
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The Orb song, "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld" was initially called "Loving You" after the Minnie Riperton song. The Orb's version as it was originally played live sampled heavily from Riperton. On signing to the label Big Life, the Orb changed the title of the song, usually leaving "Loving You" as a subtitle. Upon the single's release, Riperton's management forced Big Life to remove the unlicensed Riperton samples, ensuring that only the initial first-week release of the single contained the original vocals of Minnie Riperton; subsequent pressings used vocals from a sound-alike.[2] The version played live on BBC radio (with samples of Riperton) ended up on John Peel's Festive Fifty for 1990. The recorded version released as a single, despite being near 20 minutes in length, reached #78 on the UK Singles Chart.
The intro of the song was featured during the Top Gear: Bolivia Special (2009).
The song appears in a 2017 UK TV commercial for Domino's.[3]
Chart performance[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1975)
Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) 5
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[4] 7
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[5] 3
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[6] 6
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[7] 11
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[8] 2
US Billboard Hot 100[9] 1
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[10] 4
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[11] 3
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (1975)
Rank
Australia[12] 38
Canada[13] 56
Netherlands [14] 82
UK[15] 24
US Billboard Hot 100[16] 13
Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[17]
Silver 250,000^
United States (RIAA)[18]
Gold 1,000,000^
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
Preceded by
"Lady Marmalade" by Labelle Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
April 5, 1975 (one week) Succeeded by
"Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton John
Shanice version[edit]
"Lovin' You"
Single by Shanice
from the album Inner Child
Released
August 11, 1992
Format
CD single, Cassette single
Genre
R&B, soul, quiet storm
Length
3:57
Label
Motown
2175
Songwriter(s)
Minnie Riperton
Richard Rudolph
Producer(s)
Narada Michael Walden for Perfection Light Productions
Shanice singles chronology
"Silent Prayer"
(1992) "Lovin' You"
(1992) "Saving Forever for You"
(1992)
"Silent Prayer"
(1992) "Lovin' You"
(1992) "Saving Forever for You"
(1992)
Inner Child track listing
"Peace in the World"
(8) "Lovin' You"
(9) "You Ain't All That"
(10)
Ultimate Collection track listing
"The Way You Love Me"
(8) "Lovin' You"
(9) "I'm Cryin'"
(10)
Every Woman Dreams track listing
"Chocolate"
(11) "Loving You"
(12) "Forever Like a Rose"
(13)
Shanice's cover of the song was released in the summer of 1992 months after the success of her hit "I Love Your Smile". It only achieved minor success on the US Billboard R&B chart peaking at number 59; it also peaked at number 54 on the UK chart. The music video for the song is set on a beach. In 2005, she re-recorded the song again for her 2006 album Every Woman Dreams.
Track listing[edit]
Single Version
I Love Your Smile (Driza Bone Single Remix)
I Love Your Smile (Driza Bone Club Remix)
Instrumental
Charts[edit]
Chart (1992)
Peak
Position
US Billboard Hot R&B Singles 59
UK Singles Chart 54
Personnel[edit]
Drums and programming by Narada Michael Walden
Keyboards and programming by Louis Biancaniello
Produced by Narada Michael Walden for Perfection Light Productions
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Eskow, Gary (February 1, 2008). "Classic Tracks: Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You"". Mix. Archived from the original on April 23, 2013. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
Jump up ^ Boyd, Brian (23 October 1998). "Unidentified Flying Orb". The Irish Times. p. 12.
Jump up ^ "Domino's - The Official Food of Anniversaries". TV Ad Music. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Ultratop.be – Minnie Riperton – Lovin' You" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
Jump up ^ "RPM Weekly Top Singles - April 19, 1975 (Volume 23, No. 8)". Library and Archives Canada. RPM Weekly (archived). April 19, 1975. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
Jump up ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Minnie Riperton – Lovin' You" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
Jump up ^ "Charts.org.nz – Minnie Riperton – Lovin' You". Top 40 Singles.
Jump up ^ "Minnie Riperton: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
Jump up ^ "Minnie Riperton Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
Jump up ^ "Minnie Riperton Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
Jump up ^ "Minnie Riperton Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard.
Jump up ^ Steffen Hung. "Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". Australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
Jump up ^ Brendan Lyttle (1975-12-27). "RPM Top 200 Singles of 1975". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
Jump up ^ "Jaaroverzichten – Single 1975" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Hung Medien. Retrieved March 13, 2018.
Jump up ^ "Britain's best selling records of '75". Record Mirror. London: Billboard. January 10, 1976. p. 12. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1969/Top 100 Songs of 1969". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
Jump up ^ "British single certifications – Minnie Riperton – Loving You". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Loving You in the search field and then press Enter.
Jump up ^ "American single certifications – Riperton, Minnie – Lovin' You". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH
External links[edit]
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"I'm Cryin'"
"Silent Prayer"
"Saving Forever for You"
"It's for You"
"Somewhere"
"Turn Down the Lights"
"I Wish"
"I Like"
"If I Never Knew You"
"When I Close My Eyes"
"Yesterday"
"You Need a Man"
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This article is about the song. For other uses, see Sympathy for the Devil (disambiguation).
"Sympathy for the Devil"
German single picture sleeve (1973)
Song by the Rolling Stones
from the album Beggars Banquet
Released
6 December 1968 (1968-12-06)
Recorded
4–5, 8–10 June 1968
Studio
Olympic, London
Genre
Samba rock
Length
6:18
Label
Decca
Songwriter(s)
Jagger/Richards
Producer(s)
Jimmy Miller
Audio sample
file
help
"Sympathy for the Devil" is a samba rock song by the Rolling Stones, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Sung by Jagger, the song refers to the Devil, written in the first-person narrative, recounting atrocities committed throughout the history of humanity as if they were somehow "inspired" (or at least witnessed) by him. Although it has been deemed by some as "a homage", in reality, no admiration (or even sympathy, for that matter) is declared for the Devil in the song -other than his "own" request. It is performed in a rock arrangement with a samba rhythm, first appearing as the opening track on their 1968 album Beggars Banquet. Rolling Stone magazine placed it at number 32 in its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
Contents
[hide]
1 Inspiration
2 Recording
3 Aftermath
4 Personnel
5 Certifications
6 The 1968 film and others
7 Guns N' Roses version
7.1 Personnel
7.2 Charts
7.3 Sales and certifications
8 Other recorded versions
9 References
10 External links
Inspiration[edit]
"Sympathy for the Devil" is credited to Jagger and Richards, though the song was largely a Jagger composition.[1] The working title of the song was "The Devil Is My Name", having earlier been called "Fallen Angels", and it is sung by Jagger as a first-person narrative from the point of view of the Devil, recounting his control over the events of human existence.
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 him by Marianne Faithfull.
In a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone, Jagger said, "I think that was taken from an old idea of Baudelaire's, I think, but I could be wrong. Sometimes when I look at my Baudelaire books, I can't see it in there. But it was an idea I got from French writing. And I just took a couple of lines and expanded on it. I wrote it as sort of like a Bob Dylan song."[1] It was Richards who suggested changing the tempo and using additional percussion, turning the folk song into a samba.[2]
Furthermore, Jagger stated in the Rolling Stone interview: "it's a very long historical figure — the figures of evil and figures of good — so it is a tremendously long trail he's made as personified in this piece."[1] By the time Beggars Banquet was released, the Rolling Stones had already raised some hackles for sexually forward lyrics such as "Let's Spend the Night Together",[3] or after their reprise of the Willie Dixon's blues "I Just Want to Make Love to You" etc. and for allegedly dabbling in Satanism[4] (their previous album, while containing no direct Satanic references in its music or lyrics, was titled Their Satanic Majesties Request), and "Sympathy" brought these concerns to the fore, provoking media rumours and fears among some religious groups that the Stones were devil-worshippers and a corrupting influence on youth.[4]
The lyrics focus on atrocities in the history of mankind from Satan's point of view including the trial and death of Jesus Christ ("Made damn sure that Pilate washed his hands to seal his fate"), European wars of religion ("I watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the gods they made"), the violence of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the 1918 shooting of the Romanov family ("I stuck around St. Petersburg when I saw it was a time for a change/Killed the Tsar and his ministers/Anastasia screamed in vain"), and World War II ("I rode a tank, held a general's rank when the blitzkrieg raged, and the bodies stank"). The song was originally written with the line "I shouted out 'Who killed Kennedy?'" After Robert F. Kennedy's death on 6 June 1968, the line was changed to "Who killed the Kennedys?".[5] And the answer is "when after all it was you and me", which is a way of saying that "the devil is not the other one, but eventually each one of us."[6]
The song may have been spared further controversy when the first single from the album, "Street Fighting Man", became even more controversial in view of the race riots and student protests occurring in many cities in Europe and in the United States.[7]
Recording[edit]
The recording of "Sympathy for the Devil" began at London's Olympic Sound Studios on 4 June 1968 and continued into the next day; overdubs were done on 8, 9 and 10 June.[8] Personnel included on the recording include Nicky Hopkins on piano, Rocky Dijon on congas and Bill Wyman on maracas. Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, producer Jimmy Miller, Wyman and Richards performed backup vocals, singing the "woo woos".[citation needed] Richards plays bass on the original recording,[citation needed] and also electric guitar. Brian Jones plays a mostly mixed out acoustic guitar, although in isolated tracks of the studio cut, it is audible playing along with the piano.
In the 2003 book According to the Rolling Stones, Watts commented:
"Sympathy" was one of those sort of songs where we tried everything. The first time I ever heard the song was when Mick was playing it at the front door of a house I lived at in Sussex ... He played it entirely on his own ... and it was fantastic. We had a go at loads of different ways of playing it; in the end I just played a jazz Latin feel in the style of Kenny Clarke would have played on "A Night in Tunisia" – not the actual rhythm he played, but the same styling.[2]
On the overall power of the song, Jagger continued in Rolling Stone:
It has a very hypnotic groove, a samba, which has a tremendous hypnotic power, rather like good dance music. It doesn't speed up or slow down. It keeps this constant groove. Plus, the actual samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it is also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive—because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm (candomblé). So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it. But forgetting the cultural colors, it is a very good vehicle for producing a powerful piece. It becomes less pretentious because it is a very unpretentious groove. If it had been done as a ballad, it wouldn't have been as good.[1]
Aftermath[edit]
In an interview with Creem, Jagger said, "[When people started taking us as devil worshippers], I thought it was a really odd thing, because it was only one song, after all. It wasn't like it was a whole album, with lots of occult signs on the back. People seemed to embrace the image so readily, [and] it has carried all the way over into heavy metal bands today. Some people have made a living out of doing this; for example, Jimmy Page." [4]
Of the change in public perception the band experienced after the song's release, Richards said in a 1971 interview with Rolling Stone, "Before, we were just innocent kids out for a good time, they're saying, 'They're evil, they're evil.' Oh, I'm evil, really? So that makes you start thinking about evil... What is evil? Half of it, I don't know how much people think of Mick as the devil or as just a good rock performer or what? There are black magicians who think we are acting as unknown agents of Lucifer and others who think we are Lucifer. Everybody's Lucifer."[6]
Contrary to a widespread misconception, it was "Under My Thumb" and not "Sympathy for the Devil" that the Rolling Stones were performing when Meredith Hunter was killed at the Altamont Free Concert.[4] Rolling Stone magazine's early articles on the incident misreported that the killing took place during "Sympathy for the Devil",[9] but the Stones in fact played "Sympathy for the Devil" earlier in the concert; it was interrupted by a fight and restarted, Jagger commenting, "We're always having—something very funny happens when we start that number." Several other songs were performed before Hunter was killed.[8]
Personnel[edit]
Mick Jagger – lead vocals
Keith Richards – guitar solo, bass guitar, backing vocals
Brian Jones – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Bill Wyman – maracas, backing vocals
Charlie Watts – drums, backing vocals, cowbell
Nicky Hopkins – piano, backing vocals
Rocky Dzidzornu – congas
Anita Pallenberg, Marianne Faithfull – backing vocals
Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Germany (BVMI)[10]
Gold 250,000^
Italy (FIMI)[11]
Gold 25,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[12]
Silver 250,000^
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
The 1968 film and others[edit]
Cover art for DVD release
Sympathy for the Devil is also the title of a producer's edit of a 1968 film by Jean-Luc Godard whose own original version is called One Plus One. The film, a depiction of the late 1960s American counterculture, also featured the Rolling Stones in the process of recording the song in the studio. On the filming, Jagger said in Rolling Stone: "[it was] very fortuitous, because Godard wanted to do a film of us in the studio. I mean, it would never happen now, to get someone as interesting as Godard. And stuffy. We just happened to be recording that song. We could have been recording 'My Obsession.' But it was 'Sympathy for the Devil', and it became the track that we used."[1]
Guns N' Roses version[edit]
"Sympathy for the Devil"
Single by Guns N' Roses
from the album Interview with the Vampire soundtrack
B-side
"Escape to Paris" (by Elliot Goldenthal)
Released
13 December 1994 (1994-12-13)
Recorded
October 1994
Genre
Hard rock
Length
7:36
Label
Geffen
Songwriter(s)
Jagger/Richards
Producer(s)
Guns N' Roses
Mike Clink
Matthias Gohl
Guns N' Roses singles chronology
"Since I Don't Have You"
(1994) "Sympathy for the Devil"
(1994) "Chinese Democracy"
(2008)
Guns N' Roses recorded a cover in 1994 which reached number 55 on the Billboard Hot 100; it was featured in the closing credits of Neil Jordan's film adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (except the 4K cut of the film) and was included on their Greatest Hits album. This cover is noteworthy for causing an incident involving incoming guitarist, Paul "Huge" Tobias, that was partially responsible for guitarist Slash departing from the band in 1996.[13] Slash has described the Guns N' Roses version of the song as "the sound of the band breaking up".[14]
Rhythm guitarist Gilby Clarke, who does not appear on the recording, noted that the recording foreshadowed his departure from the band:
They did that while I was on the road touring for my solo record. […] I knew that that was the ending because nobody told me about it. Officially I was in the band at that time, and they did that song without me. That was one of the last straws for me, because nobody had said anything to me, and they recorded a song by one of my favorite bands. It was pretty clear I'm a big Rolling Stones fan, and they recorded the song without me. So I knew that was it.[15]
Personnel[edit]
W. Axl Rose – lead vocals, piano
Slash – lead and rhythm guitars
Duff McKagan – bass guitar, backing vocals
Matt Sorum – drums, percussion
Dizzy Reed – keyboards
Paul Tobias – rhythm and lead guitars, backing vocals
Charts[edit]
Chart (1994–1995)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[16]
12
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[17]
17
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[18]
18
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[19]
40
Finland (The Official Finnish Charts)[20]
2
France (SNEP)[21]
15
Germany (Official German Charts)[22]
20
Ireland (IRMA)[23]
16
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[24]
9
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[25]
13
Norway (VG-lista)[26]
5
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[27]
7
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[28]
15
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[29]
10
US Billboard Hot 100[30]
55
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[31]
10
Sales and certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Japan (RIAJ)[32]
Gold 50,000^
^shipments figures based on certification alone
Other recorded versions[edit]
In 2005, Cuban drummer and percussionist Horacio Hernandez ("El Negro") recorded a Latin Jazz version of the song, sung by Latin great Rubén Blades.[33]
British gothic rock band Inkubus Sukkubus released a cover of the song on their 2007 album Science and Nature.[34]
Indie rock bands Band of Skulls and John & Jehn covered the song for the French TV show Taratata broadcast in March 2010.[35]
Motörhead covered the song for their 2015 album Bad Magic.[36]
Ozzy Osbourne covered the song on the 2005 album Under Cover.
Sandie Shaw covered the song for her 1969 album Reviewing the Situation.[37]
Blood, Sweat & Tears released a version in 1970 on the band's third album.
English doom metal band Sabazius recorded their own 25-minute cover version of the song and released it as an EP of the same name.
Tiamat covered the song for their 1999 album Skeleton Skeletron.
Jane's Addiction as Sympathy on 1987 album Jane's Addiction. This version was featured on the television series Sons of Anarchy.
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Wenner, Jann (December 14, 1995). "Mick Jagger Remembers". Rolling Stone.
^ Jump up to: a b Jagger, Mick; Richards, Keith; Watts, Charlie; Wood, Ronnie (2003). According to the Rolling Stones. Chronicle Books. p. 119. ISBN 0-8118-4060-3.
Jump up ^ Unterberger, Richie. "Let's Spend the Night Together". allmusic. 2007 . Retrieved 26 June 2007.
^ Jump up to: a b c d Cruickshank, Douglas. "Sympathy for the Devil". Salon.com. Retrieved 25 June 2006.
Jump up ^ Jagger/Richards (20 June 2004). "Sympathy for the Devil". RollingStones.com. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 1 March 2008.
^ Jump up to: a b Greenfield, Robert (19 August 1971). "The Rolling Stone Interview: Keith Richards". Rolling Stone.
Jump up ^ Wyman, Bill (2002). Rolling With the Stones. DK Publishing. p. 309. ISBN 0-7894-9998-3.
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Jump up ^ Burks, John (7 February 1970). "Rock & Roll's Worst Day". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 13 September 2008.
Jump up ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (The Rolling Stones; 'Sympathy For The Devil')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
Jump up ^ "Italian single certifications – The Rolling Stones – (Sympathy for the devil)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
Jump up ^ "British single certifications – The Rolling Stones – (Sympathy for the devil)". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 23 February 2017. Select singles in the Format field. Select Silver in the Certification field. Enter (Sympathy for the devil) in the search field and then press Enter.
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Jump up ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – Guns N' Roses – Sympathy for the Devil". VG-lista. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
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"Reason to Rock" review
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Mephistopheles
Pan Twardowski
Stingy Jack
Seminal works
Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587 chapbook)
Cenodoxus (1602, play)
Doctor Faustus (1604 play)
Goethe's Faust (1808 play)
Faust, Part One
Faust, Part Two
Prose
"Bearskin"
"Daniel and the Devil"
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
"The Devil and Tom Walker" (1824)
St. John's Eve (1830)
Auriol (1844)
Chasse-galerie (1892)
The Sorrows of Satan (1896)
Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (1898)
The Master and Margarita (1929–40)
Mephisto (1936)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)
None but Lucifer (1939)
Doktor Faustus (1947)
The Devil in Velvet (1951)
The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954)
Gimmicks Three (1956)
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956)
That Hell-Bound Train (1958)
For a Breath I Tarry (1966)
The Damnation Game (1986)
Eric (1990)
The Devil's Own Work (1991)
Jack Faust (1997)
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (2009)
Plays
Gretchen (1879)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955)
The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon (1965)
Temptation (1986)
Operas
Faust (1816, Spohr)
La damnation de Faust (1846, Berlioz)
Faust (1859, Gounod)
Mefistofele (1868, Boito)
Faust and Marguerite (1855, Lutz)
Faust up to Date (1888, Lutz)
Doktor Faust (1916–25, Busoni)
Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938)
The Rake's Progress (1951, Stravinsky)
Reuben, Reuben (1955)
Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1994)
Faustus, the Last Night (2006)
Classical music
Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814, Schubert)
Faust Overture (1840, Wagner)
Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges' 2nd movement "Quasi-Faust" (1847, Alkan)
Scenes from Goethe's Faust (1853, Schumann)
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Songs
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"Cross Road Blues" (1936)
"Sympathy for the Devil" (1968)
"Friend of the Devil" (1970)
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975)
"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (1979)
"Faustian Echoes" (2012)
"The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" (2015)
Films
Faust and Marguerite (1900)
The Damnation of Faust (1903)
Faust and Marguerite (1904)
The Student of Prague (1913)
Rapsodia satanica (1915)
The Student of Prague (1926)
Faust (1926)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Alias Nick Beal (1949)
The Legend of Faust (1949)
Beauty and the Devil (1950)
Marguerite de la nuit (1955)
Damn Yankees (1958)
Faust (1960)
Bedazzled (1967)
Doctor Faustus (1967)
El extraño caso del doctor Fausto (1969)
Mephisto (1981)
Doctor Faustus (1982)
Faust (1994)
The Master and Margarita (1994)
Bedazzled (2000)
Faust: Love of the Damned (2001)
Fausto 5.0 (2001)
I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
Shortcut to Happiness (2003)
Faust (2011)
Television
Episodes
"The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" (2003)
Other
The Devil and Daniel Mouse (1978)
Musicals
Damn Yankees (1955)
Randy Newman's Faust (1993)
Success! (1993)
Faust (2003)
Other
Paintings
Faust (ballet) (1848)
Gods' Man (1929)
Faust (manga) (1950)
Doctor Faustus (comics) (1968)
Faust (Avatar Press) (1987)
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