Why is Let It Bleed considered a pivotal Stones album?

Released on November 28, 1969, it captures the end of the 1960s and the Stones’ transition from blues-rock to darker, more complex territory. It includes some of their most enduring songs — ‘Gimme Shelter,’ ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want,’ and ‘Midnight Rambler’ — and arrived between the chaos of Altamont and the shadow of the decade’s utopian ideals crumbling.

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