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The world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band, The Rolling Stones and Bravado, the world’s leading merchandising company, have today launched the band’s first ever digital archive – The Rolling Stones Archive – and have marked the occasion with a digital release of ‘The Brussels Affair’.

After years in circulation as a bootleg, this spectacular live show from the European leg of the 1973 Goat’s Head Soup tour is now available to music fans all over the world (excluding the U.S.) as an official download from www.stonesarchive.com.

The website will give fans access to special videos and liner notes, including copies of the original Brussels set lists, as well as rare photographs and a sound player that allows listeners to sample audio clips from every song in the set.

Exclusive daily deals will give Stones fans the inside track on exclusive merchandise as well as rare access to memorabilia, limited photos and lithographs and deluxe box sets. Each item included in The Rolling Stones Archive will be unique and highly limited, making this an incredible opportunity to own a part of The Rolling Stones’ history. (more…)

Universal Music Group has announced that The Rolling Stones will issue the previously unreleased track “No Spare Parts” on exclusive limited edition 7″ vinyl to mark Record Store Day’s “Black Friday”, Friday, November 25.

A digital download version of the single will be available the week commencing November 14.

“No Spare Parts” is one of twelve bonus tracks that have been unearthed for inclusion on the forthcoming deluxe and super deluxe reissue of The Rolling Stones’ Some Girls – widely regarded as one of the band’s greatest albums. Some Girls will be released on November 21.

“No Spare Parts” captures the daring and diverse spirit of the album’s legendary sessions.  Recorded in Paris in 1978, the song tells the story of a trip from Los Angeles to San Antonio, Texas featuring Mick Jagger on electric piano, Keith Richards on acoustic piano, Ronnie Wood on pedal steel guitar, Charlie Watts on drums and Bill Wyman on bass. With a country guitar twang, subtle groove, and soulful storytelling, it’s a powerful and poignant acoustic tune from The Rolling Stones, and an essential addition to any fan’s catalogue.

The limited edition 7″ version of the single will also include Some Girls album track “Before They Make Me Run” on the B-side.

Other never-heard-before tracks featured on the Some Girls reissue will include “We Had It All”, “I Love You Too Much” and “Don’t Be A Stranger”.

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The Rolling Stones are set to delight their millions of fans, and another generation of new admirers, as they unveil a treasure trove of vintage unreleased material from the ‘Some Girls’ era of 1978.

Comprising an entire album of fresh material, the songs form the second disc on the deluxe edition of the band’s seminal, multi-million-selling 1978 album Some Girls, which is released on November 21. It follows the massive worldwide success and acclaim for Universal’s 2010 reissue of the Stones’ hallowed 1972 set ‘Exile On Main St.’

The appearance of the unreleased tracks on the deluxe ‘Some Girls’ means that after listening to such gems from the original album as ‘Miss You,’ ‘Far Away Eyes,’ ‘Before They Make Me Run’ and ‘Beast Of Burden,’ fans can enjoy a whole new set of contemporaneous work by the Stones. A fresh and compelling collection in its own right, it’s also the perfect complement to one of the band’s best-ever albums.

The unreleased tracks mostly feature performances by the whole band – Mick Jagger on lead vocals, piano, guitars and harmonica; Keith Richards on guitars,piano, harmony vocals (and lead vocal on ‘We Had It All’); Ronnie Wood on pedal steel, electric and slide guitar; and the vintage Stones engine room of Bill Wyman on bass and Charlie Watts on drums. (more…)