‘Sympathy for the Devil’ was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and released by The Rolling Stones. The song is a first-person narrative from the point of view of the Devil.

When asked about the inspiration behind the song in a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone, Jagger said, “I think that was taken from an old idea of Baudelaire's, I think, but I could be wrong. Sometimes when I look at my Baudelaire books, I can't see it in there. But it was an idea I got from French writing. And I just took a couple of lines and expanded on it. I wrote it as sort of like a Bob Dylan song.” The song bears similarities to the novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

The narrator of the song, Lucifer, tells of his exploits throughout human history and warns the listener: “If you meet me, have some courtesy, have some sympathy, and some taste: use all your well-learned politesse, or I’ll lay your soul to waste.” Better off having a listen to it on your sony headphones then!