The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil [KARAOKE]

Sympathy for the Devil is a song by the legendary rock band the Rolling Stones, released in 1968 as the opening track of their album Beggars Banquet. The song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and is considered one of their best and most influential songs.

The song is inspired by the novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, which Jagger read after his girlfriend Marianne Faithfull gave him a copy. The novel is a satire of the Soviet Union under Stalin, and features the Devil as a main character who visits Moscow and causes havoc. Jagger decided to write a song from the perspective of the Devil, who introduces himself as “a man of wealth and taste” and claims to have been involved in various historical events, such as the crucifixion of Jesus, the Russian Revolution, World War II, and the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers. The song is a reflection on the nature of evil and the role of human agency in it.

The song has a distinctive samba rhythm, which was suggested by Richards after hearing Brazilian music on the radio. The recording process was documented by the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, who made a film called Sympathy for the Devil (also known as One Plus One) that alternates between scenes of the Rolling Stones in the studio and scenes of political violence and radical movements in London.

The song has been widely covered and used in various movies, such as Interview with the Vampire, Tropic Thunder, Focus, and Suicide Squad. One of the most notable movies that featured the song was Fallen, a 1998 supernatural thriller starring Denzel Washington as a detective who hunts down a serial killer who can possess people by touching them. The song plays at the end of the movie, when the killer reveals himself to be the Devil. It also plays during the credits, creating a chilling effect.