That can make a very ordinary song come alive into something totally different. The song is titled sympathy for the devil and yet over and over again in the chorus the charactee challenges you to guess his name.
Yet, it is this inferiority that demands our sympathy; for, if we are unable to sympathize with evil, we are susceptible to falling victim to it.It started as sort of a folk song with acoustics and ended up as kind of a mad samba, with me playing bass and overdubbing the guitar later…That’s why I don’t like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned beforehand. He documents events through history that could be seen as “works of the devil.” There was a rumor that this song was playing when a fan died at the Rolling Stones gig at the The backing vocals are provided by Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts, Nicky Hopkins, Anita Wallenberg, and Marianne Faithfull.The song’s purpose is not a magnification or glorification of the evil demonstrated by the events it portrays. About “Sympathy for the Devil” This song is sung in first person form, with Mick Jagger playing no one else but Satan himself. Rather, the events establish the devil’s enormous power as evidence of our inferior position in relation to him. You can write down the notes being played, but you can’t put down the X Factor—so important in rock and roll—which is the feel.” This song is sung in first person form, with Mick Jagger playing no one else but Satan himself. "Sympathy for the Devil" is credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, though, by the Jagger's words, the song was mainly his creation.
Because you can write the songs, but you’ve got to give the band something to use its imagination on as well. Sympathy for the Devil