Sympathy Devil facts
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Robert Kennedy was assassinated during the exact same week that the Rolling Stones were recording 'Sympathy for the Devil.' The original lyrics were "I shouted out 'Who killed Kennedy?'" but Jagger changed it to "I shouted out 'Who killed the Kennedys?'"
The original lyric in the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil was "I shouted out 'Who killed Kennedy?' This had to be changed to "I shouted out 'Who killed the Kennedys?'" after RFK was assassinated while the song was being recorded.
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Keith Richards (not the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman) played the bass line in "Sympathy for the Devil" and at least a half-dozen other classic Stones songs.
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Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones is based on a Russian classic novel called The Master and Margarita, in which the devil visits Moscow accompanied by a giant cat and a naked witch.
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In the song "sympathy for the devil" by the Rolling Stones. The line, "Who killed the kennedy's?" was originally, "Who killed Kennedy?" But it was changed during recording after the Robert Kennedy was assassinated.
