It’s a masterpiece and a classic. Like any song you can listen to it too much of course. Still there’s no denying how great it is.

To be fair it’s much better than the schmaltzy original in French (and I’m French).

Music on a lot (not all) digital streaming services is overcompressed compared to CD. Some people hear it some people less, some people don’t.

Let it Bleed > Sticky Fingers > Beggars Banquet > Exile on Main Street > all the rest.

Where did you see they did “put black artists out of the way” …? There were much more back artists in the pop charts in the late 60s and 70s compared to the 50s and early 60s. And the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Clapton, Mayall and all greatly helped in that direction by introducing that music to a larger audience and helped break the barriers between segregated audiences.

Regarding the R&B charts it was stopped late 63 because there was a disconnection with its initial target (yes mostly black people at the time): there were too many white artists in it due to the way music was labeled R&B (this was BEFORE British Invasion and Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show) and Billboard decided to stop it and revived it only early 65 with a revised formula intended to target more black artists. Beatles chart success had nothing to do with it from what I’ve read. And artists could be present on BOTH pop and R&B charts.

Seems to me you are rewriting history to support your argumentation. 🤔

That’s just nonsensical BS. Even an inversion of the reality. Race records existed long before British Invasion and segregated audiences were the norm up until the 60s. Artists like Elvis in the 50s, British Invasion bands and British blues boom bands in the 60s contributed to bring this music to a white audience that in a vast majority was not listening to black artists. They all contributed to make things change to that regards in the direction of a more mixed audience in term of music listening habits. Many white guys were introduced and discovered black artists thanks to the covers or artists like The Beatles, the Stones, Clapton, Mayall…