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“Stray Cat Blues” is the eighth song on the Rolling Stones’ album Beggars Banquet. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and produced by Jimmy Miller. Miller’s production of the song is very representative of his style, featuring a very prominent hi hat beat, droning piano, a distorted electric guitar and vocals from Jagger kept even in the mix. According to Mick Jagger the song was inspired by ‘Heroin’ by the Velvet Underground. The intro of Stray Cat and Heroin are similar. The song is told from the perspective of a man lusting after and having sex with a 15 year old groupie, reasoning that “it’s no hanging matter, it’s no capital crime”. A live performance was captured during the Rolling Stones’ American Tour 1969 and released on the 1970 live album... Read on...