Sympathy For The Devil came out in the summer of 1968.

I was the biggest Beatles fan imaginable.

I replayed every piece, they were the best for me.

I always listened to the hit parades over and over again.

My sister and I sat in front of the Grundig box and spent every free minute looking for chart music: Radio Saarbrücken, BFBS, AFN.

I was up to date and of course knew the Stones.

I came from the deepest provinces and dreamed of a boyfriend.

He was supposed to have long hair and I wanted him to hold my hand.

I found that again in the music of the Beatles: a dear boy, a friend, holding hands and a little cuddling.

It was crystal clear to me, even though I was completely innocent, that the Stones ride a different thing altogether.

They wanted sex, that was too much for me, not comfortable.

Uwe Ebbinghaus

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Then "Sympathy For The Devil" came out and I have to say that I was immediately electrified by the track.

At that time there was no internet where you could have read the text.

So I laboriously sat in front of the radio and tried to understand everything and write it down.

I thought: What do you want to tell me?

And even with the title - my confirmation wasn't that long ago - I wasn't emotionally sure: Can you have that, "Sympathy For The Devil", is that okay?

Doesn't that mean: I sympathize with evil?

I was also just beginning to be on the left in my heart, very naive.

Didn't that mean sympathy for capitalism, for war?

But it was so that I just couldn't help but say: That's a really good piece, right away.

Alone how it was musically structured;

it was unlike any other Stones track.

Mick Jagger spoke like a polite Englishman, a gentleman - "let me introduce myself" - but then blurted out things like: "Who killed the Kennedys?

“ – “it was you and me”;

or: "Every cop is a criminal".

In addition, the song was full of eroticism, I felt that.

The screeching in the background, the dark rhythm, that totally put a spell on me.

At the same time, I feared that the song would harm my soul.

I can still hear that today when I listen to the song – the drums start and Keith Richards' guitar solo in the middle.

It's the combination of lyrics and music that makes the song so special.

There's not much blues in it, the drums are more voodoo, more Amazon than Mississippi,

they go very forward.

The lyrics are so good because they have an RPG in them: "I'm the devil, I'm well behaved, and I could be at all your parties.

You might get a little restless, but I fit in there because: You all have something of me."