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When I blogged about the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" and the Eurythmics' "Missionary Man," I didn't include this mix, my favourite of the seven cover versions on Laibach's 1988 Sympathy for the Devil EP

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"She's made you some kind of laughing stock ( Read more... )

Recently reacquainting myself with Laibach's highly variant cover versions of the Rolling Stones classic song Sympathy for the Devil, I was quite surprised to learn--via Wikipedia, admittedly, but Salon backs it up--that Jagger was inspired by Bulgakov.

"Sympathy for the Devil" was written by singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, though ( Read more... )