Album Launch to Coincide With New Documentary ‘Stones in Exile’

Universal Music Group is pleased to announce the re-release of The Rolling Stones album Exile on Main Street with an additional 10 never-before-heard tracks. Regarded as one of the greatest albums in rock ‘n’ roll history and one of the most defining of the Stones’ catalogue, Exile will be available May 17, 2010, in the U.K. and May 18, 2010, in the US.

Upon its release more than three decades ago, Exile on Main Street innovatively wove varying musical genres, instruments and even artists into a compelling rhythmic masterpiece. This new compilation features 10 tracks originally recorded during the Exile era and only recently discovered while working on the reissue project. The unearthed tracks which include such titles as “Plundered My Soul,” “Dancing in the Light,” “Following the River” and “Pass The Wine” have undergone a unique evolution, while staying true to the essence of the 1972 album. Alternate versions of “Soul Survivor” and “Loving Cup” also are a part of the Exile bonus materials.

As a complement to the release of Exile on Main Street, a documentary, “Stones in Exile,” has just been completed for fans to view on US Network television and through BBC Worldwide internationally. The documentary features rare, never-before-seen archival film, photos and interviews as well as new conversations with the band and the artists they influence. Produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker John Battsek and directed by Stephen Kijak, who is known for award-winning work on Cinemania, and Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, “Stones in Exile” offers an uncommon glimpse into the lives of the band as they created one of the greatest albums of all time.

The original 18-track double-album was recorded in various stages at multiple locations, including Olympic Studios in London, Keith Richard’s mansion Nellcote in France, and in Los Angeles where the literal “Main Street” influenced the album title. These atypical circumstances surrounding the recording process greatly affected the album’s outcome which was highly reflective and influenced by the sociopolitical turbulence that marked the late `60s and early `70s. The Stones nixed the influences of a flower-child era and directed their creative process with the edgier, excessive, “more is more” approach of the `70s. Exile reveals a sprawling mix of genres with undertones of blues, country, R&B and gospel mixed with lyrics that fervently demand for release and liberation.

The album pulled together an electric array of talent including Dr. John, the late Billy Preston and pianist Nicky Hopkins. Guitarist Mick Taylor, who replaced Brian Jones in the band shortly before Jones died in 1969, is a magnificent blues player who brought an intensity and elegance to these epic tracks. At times, these musicians and others lived on the recording studio premises with the band creating an extremely open and creative collaboration for the album.

“The album’s riveting portrait of artists pushed – by the times, by themselves – to the very limits of their creativity has provided inspiration to every musical generation that has come along since Exile was released in 1972,” said author Anthony DeCurtis. “Every song on Exile on Main Street is elevated by its relationship to the music that comes before and after it. The album’s irresistible power is unlikely to diminish any time soon.”

Exile on Main Street will be available in two CD formats: the original 18 track release; a deluxe CD edition with the 10 special bonus tracks; and a super deluxe package that also includes vinyl, a 30-minute documentary DVD with footage from Cocksucker Blues, Ladies and Gentlemen… the Rolling Stones and Stones in Exile, and a 50-page collector’s book with photos from the Exile era. The 10 unreleased tracks were produced by Jimmy Miller, The Glimmer Twins and Don Was.

Source: Universal Music Enterprises

RELEASE CELEBRATES THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STEEL WHEELS TOUR

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Rolling Stones Steel Wheels tour, Universal Music Group and S2BN Entertainment announce the digitally re-mastered release of Rolling Stones Live at the Max on DVD and Blu-ray tomorrow, November 10, 2009. Live at the Max was the first feature-length IMAX concert film to be shot and, to this day, it holds the record as the most successful IMAX concert film of all time.

Offering every fan the best seat in the house, Live at the Max features 90 minutes of classic Rolling Stones footage shot during the European leg of their Steel Wheels tour in London, Berlin and Turin, and showcases 16 songs including classic favorites such as “Start Me Up,” “It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll,” and “Honky Tonk Woman.” The digitally remastered release of Live at the Max will be launched alongside the reissue of five Rolling Stones live albums: Love You Live, Still Life, Flashpoint, the much-loved Stripped and Live Licks.

Live at the Max is available online at Amazon and at local retail outlets worldwide.

The Rolling Stones are renowned for their dynamic live shows, DVDs and films which include Four Flicks, a four-disc DVD set that was certified 19-times platinum and is the number one selling concert (long form) DVD in U.S. history, as well as the Martin Scorsese directed 2008 blockbuster documentary Shine a Light.

Live at the Max delivers unparalleled visual and audio quality for a viewing experience that is superior to any other live concert video.

The Rolling Stones: Live at the Max
1. Continental Drift
2. Start Me Up
3. Sad Sad Sad
4. Tumbling Dice
5. Ruby Tuesday
6. Rock And A Hard Place
7. Honky Tonk Woman
8. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
9. Happy
10. Paint It Black
11. 2,00 Light Years From Home
12. Sympathy For The Devil
13. Street Fighting Man
14. It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll
15. Brown Sugar
16. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

DVD TECHNICAL INFORMATION
– Picture: 4×3 (This keeps the IMAX image true to form)
– Audio: Uncompressed PCM Stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound

Blu-ray TECHNICAL INFORMATION
– Picture: 1080p High Definition 16×9 Widescreen
– Audio: Uncompressed PCM Stereo and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
– Blu-ray discs will only play in Blu-ray compatible players
– Blu-ray Discs are Sony Playstation® 3 Compatible

Source: Universal Music Enterprises

Historic Jimi Hendrix concerts… a legendary performance from Nirvana… U2′s remastered The Unforgettable Fire… every recording by Buddy Holly… nearly every Rolling Stones album since 1971… and a collection from famed sideman Klaus Voormann. With new box sets and albums from UMe, holiday gift-giving has never sounded so good.

Buddy Holly:

He had a brief three-year professional recording career, but Buddy Holly left the music world a vast recorded legacy of 203 tracks–all of them on the limited edition six-CD Hip-O Select box set Not Fade Away/The Complete Studio Recordings And More.

The tracks range from his earliest recordings to demos with Bob Montgomery; from his earliest recordings with The Crickets to his first studio recordings for Decca in Nashville; from the Coral and Brunswick recordings and hits that made him famous to his heralded apartment tapes. There are six previously unreleased tracks plus another 11 previously unreleased in the U.S. All of the original, locatable undubbed recordings and all 57 overdubbed versions recorded after the “day the music died” are here. Many are hard-to-find or make their CD debuts.

Jimi Hendrix:

Two box sets from Dagger Records (Experience Hendrix through Geffen/UMe), offered exclusively through Amazon.com, are each presented with exclusive reproductions of Hendrix memorabilia, including a poster, postcard set replicating classic Hendrix concert posters, set of badges reminiscent of the era, Hendrix iPod Skin, PikCARD with four guitar picks adorned with Hendrix artwork from the concert posters and more.

Jimi Hendrix Experience Live 1968 Paris/Ottawa encompasses a pair of concerts, highlighted by performances of “Purple Haze,” “The Wind Cries Mary” and “Little Wing” from the L’Olympia Theater in Paris and a “Hendrixized” version of the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” taped at Ottawa’s Capitol Theater later that same year. Jimi Hendrix Experience Paris ’67 is a custom-swirled, colored vinyl album documenting an earlier concert at L’Olympia and featuring performances of “Stone Free,” “Hey Joe,” “Wild Thing,” etc.

Nirvana:

One of the most bootlegged concerts in the annals of rock– Nirvana’s August 30, 1992, headlining appearance at the U.K.’s Reading Festival–Nirvana Live At Reading (DGC/Geffen/UMe) will be issued in a limited edition DVD+CD Deluxe Edition in November. The footage and audio come in the original multi-track masters and are presented in 5.1 Surround Sound. Only two of the 25 performances on the DVD have ever been released before.

The concert ranked #1 in Kerrang’s “100 Gigs That Shook The World” and “Nirvana’s #1 Greatest Moment” by fans in an NME poll includes nearly the entire Nevermind tracklist, early performances of then-unrecorded songs (“All Apologies,” “Dumb” and the first performance of “Tourette’s”) and live versions of songs later heard on Incesticide. The career-spanning set list also reaches back to the band’s beginnings.

The Rolling Stones:

Thirteen of the 14 Rolling Stones albums since 1971 have been newly remastered and are available from UMe separately or in a limited edition collectible box set exclusively through Amazon.com (1972′s Exile On Main St. will be remastered and released in early 2010). Included is a full-color poster of the band’s Sticky Fingers classic promotional image re-created specially for this package.

The box brings together Sticky Fingers (1971, “Brown Sugar,” “Wild Horses”); Goats Head Soup (1973, “Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker),” “Angie”); It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (1974, “It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It)”); Black And Blue (1976, “Hot Stuff,” “Miss You”); Some Girls (1978, “Beast Of Burden,” “Shattered”); Emotional Rescue (1980, “She’s So Cold”); Tattoo You (1981, “Start Me Up”); Undercover (1983, “Undercover Of The Night”); Dirty Work (1986, “Harlem Shuffle”); and Steel Wheels (1989, “Rock And A Hard Place”) plus Voodoo Lounge (1994), Bridges To Babylon (1997) and A Bigger Bang (2005).

U2:

U2′s fourth album, The Unforgettable Fire, has been remastered for the first time with direction from U2 guitarist, The Edge, and will be released by Island/UMe on October 27, 2009. This special edition marks 25 years since the album’s original release in October 1984. Recorded at Slane Castle, Ireland, The Unforgettable Fire was the first U2 album to be produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, and spawned the US top 10 hit – “Pride (In The Name Of Love).”

The limited edition super deluxe box set features bonus audio material, including two previously unheard tracks from the Slane Castle sessions: “Yoshino Blossom” and “Disappearing Act” (a track which the band recently completed), and a DVD including music videos, a documentary and unreleased live footage from the Amnesty International Conspiracy of Hope Tour in 1986.

Klaus Voormann:

On A Sideman’s Journey (UMe), famed musician Klaus Voormann, who played bass on solo albums for every Beatle as well as for Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, Yoko Ono and others, is joined by musical friends in seven studio sessions in London, Memphis, Hamburg, Los Angeles and Munich. The limited edition two-disc box set, available exclusively through Amazon.com, includes three bonus audio tracks, a DVD documentary on the making of the album, a hardbound book of photos (renowned graphic designer Voormann created the Beatles’ Revolver cover) and more.

Featuring Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, Yusuf (aka Cat Stevens), Dr. John, Bonnie Bramlett, Van Dyke Parks, Albert Lee, and others, A Sideman’s Journey finds Voormann & Friends performing favorites such as “Blue Suede Shoes,” “All Things Must Pass,” “Mighty Quinn” and “Just Like A Woman.”

Source: Universal Music Enterprises

Love You Live – Still Life – Flashpoint – Stripped – Live Licks The live adventures of the Rolling Stones

Universal Music Group is pleased to announce the reissue of five Rolling Stones live albums on November 10, 2009 in the US. Recorded between 1975 and 2002, Love You Live, Still Life, Flashpoint, the much-loved Stripped and Live Licks, showcase the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in its natural habitat–on stage. Taped in front of rapturous audiences in stadiums and arenas, and also documenting the more informal theatre and club shows beloved of their diehard fans, these albums feature high-octane renditions of the group’s biggest hits – “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “Brown Sugar,” “Tumbling Dice,” “Miss You,” “Start Me Up” – as well as great covers of material originally recorded by Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Eddie Cochran, the Miracles, the Temptations, Bob Dylan and B.B. King.

Continuing UMG’s comprehensive release program which has already seen reissues of the group’s post-1971 studio albums, as well as the reappearance of the Jump Back compilation, these five albums bring the story of the Stones as a peerless live attraction up to date, and will be available in stores and digitally. The reissue of these five Rolling Stones live albums will be launched in conjunction with the digitally remastered release of Live at the Max celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Rolling Stones’ Steel Wheels tour.

Originally issued as a double-vinyl album in October 1977, Love You Live captures the band at a time when their Canadian escapades were making headlines around the world. Released a year after their triumphant appearance at the Knebworth Fair, it made the Top 5 on both sides of the Atlantic. The album includes the acknowledged classics “Honky Tonk Women,” “Happy” and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” and the medley “If You Can’t Rock Me/Get Off Of My Cloud” taped during the band’s record-breaking run at London’s Earls Court in May 1976. Going back to their rhythm ‘n’ blues roots as if they were at the Crawdaddy Club or Eel Pie Island in the early sixties, they revived “Mannish Boy,” a song most commonly associated with the father of Chicago blues, Muddy Waters, the Willie Dixon composition “Little Red Rooster,” made famous by Howlin’ Wolf and a chart-topper for the Stones in 1964, and two more Chess label favorites–Bo Diddley’s “Crackin’ Up” and Chuck Berry’s “Around And Around.”

Still Life (American Concert 1981), the album’s full title, was released in the summer of 1982, just as the group was headlining stadiums across the world, and also made the Top 5 on both sides of the Atlantic. Arguably the Stones’ most commercially successful live recording to date, it spawned two hit singles, their infectious take on the Miracles’ “Going To A Go-Go,” and their revival of Jerry Ragovoy’s “Time Is On My Side,” popularized by Irma Thomas and first recorded by the group in 1964. It also includes a swaggering cover of Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock” as well as romps through the Stones’ sixties classics “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “Under My Thumb” and “Let’s Spend The Night Together.”

First issued in April 1991, Flashpoint is a Stones live album with a difference, since it boasts two studio cuts exclusive to this release, the politically charged “Highwire,” a comment on the Gulf War reminiscent of the group’s epochal “Street Fighting Man,” and the louche “Sex Drive.” The album featured outstanding versions of “Ruby Tuesday” and “Paint It, Black” alongside the rockers “Sad Sad Sad” and “Rock And A Hard Place” from the Steel Wheels album, as well as the rarely played “Factory Girl,” from the seminal Beggars Banquet, while guitar hero Eric Clapton guested on “Little Red Rooster.”

Having pioneered the concept of alternating big shows and back-to-basics gigs, the Stones put yet another spin on the live album with Stripped in November 1995, and were duly rewarded with another transatlantic Top Ten entry. During the Voodoo Lounge tour, their first with bassist Darryl Jones, the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world simply kicked back in Lisbon and Tokyo studios and revisited Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away” and “Little Baby,” the Willie Dixon composition first recorded by Howlin’ Wolf. They also cherry-picked highlights – “Shine A Light,” “Angie” – from intimate shows at legendary venues like the Paradiso in Amsterdam or the Olympia in Paris. This low-key approach afforded the group the opportunity to explore its acoustic, country-flavored repertoire, “Wild Horses,” “Dead Flowers” and “Sweet Virginia” in particular, though their inspired reworking of Bob Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone,” from their memorable gig at London’s Brixton Academy, remains the album’s undisputed highlight.

Documenting the lengthy 2002-2003 tour in support of the career retrospective 40 Licks, Live Licks is another great addition to the Stones’ catalog of concert recordings, and put in a strong chart performance on its release in November 2004. The shows mixed best-loved songs with unexpected gems from the band’s huge back catalogue, and the two CDs mirror that approach. The first one comprises favorites such as “It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It)” and “Gimme Shelter” while the second one relies on rarely played deep cuts like “Monkey Man,” “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking,” “Rocks Off,” “Beast Of Burden,” “When The Whip Comes Down,” “Neighbours” and “Worried About You” from the chart-topping albums Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main Street, Some Girls and Tattoo You.

These albums all retain the original track listings and sleeve design.

The Shine A Light soundtrack is still available from Universal. Released in 2008, this live double album was recorded during two memorable nights at New York’s Beacon Theatre in 2006 and featured in the ultimate Rolling Stones concert film SHINE A LIGHT from Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese.

TRACKLISTINGS

Love You Live
Disc 1
1. Intro: Fanfare For The Common Man
2. Honky Tonk Woman (Live)
3. If You Can’t Rock Me/ Get Off of My Cloud
4. Happy
5. Hot Stuff
6. Star, Star
7. Tumbling Dice
8. Fingerprint File
9. You Gotta Move
10. You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Disc 2
1. Mannish Boy
2. Crackin’ Up
3. Little Red Rooster
4. Around And Around
5. It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll
6. Brown Sugar
7. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
8. Sympathy For The Devil

Still Life
1. Take The A Train
2. Under My Thumb
3. Let’s Spend The Night Together
4. Shattered
5. Twenty Flight Rock
6. Going To A Go-Go
7. Let Me Go
8. Time Is On My Side
9. Just My Imagination
10. Start Me Up
11. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Flashpoint
1. Continental Drift (Intro)
2. Start Me Up
3. Sad Sad Sad
4. Miss You
5. Rock And A Hard Place
6. Ruby Tuesday
7. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
8. Factory Girl
9. Can’t Be Seen
10. Little Red Rooster
11. Paint It, Black
12. Sympathy For The Devil
13. Brown Sugar
14. Jumping Jack Flash
15. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
16. Highwire
17. Sex Drive

Stripped
1. Street Fighting Man
2. Like A Rolling Stone
3. Not Fade Away
4. Shine A Light
5. The Spider And The Fly
6. I’m Free
7. Wild Horses
8. Let It Bleed
9. Dead Flowers
10. Slipping Away
11. Angie
12. Love In Vain
13. Sweet Virginia
14. Little Baby

Live Licks
Disc 1
1. Brown Sugar
2. Street Fighting Man
3. Paint It Black
4. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
5. Start Me Up
6. It’s Only Rock N’ Roll
7. Angie
8. Honky Tonk Women
9. Happy
10. Gimme Shelter
11. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Disc 2
1. Neighbours
2. Monkey Man
3. Rocks Off
4. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
5. That’s How Strong My Love Is
6. The Nearness Of You
7. Beast Of Burden
8. When The Whip Comes Down
9. Rock Me, Baby
10. You Don’t Have To Mean It
11. Worried About You
12. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

Shine A Light (Already released – 2008)
Disc 1
1. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
2. Shattered
3. She Was Hot
4. All Down The Line
5. Loving Cup (with Jack White III)
6. As Tears Go By
7. Some Girls
8. Just My Imagination
9. Faraway Eyes
10. Champagne & Reefer (with Buddy Guy)
11. Tumbling Dice
12. Band Introductions
13. You Got The Silver
14. Connection

Disc 2
1. Martin Scorsese Intro
2. Sympathy For The Devil
3. Live With Me (with Christina Aguilera)
4. Start Me Up
5. Brown Sugar
6. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
7. Paint It Black
8. Little T&A
9. I’m Free
10. Shine A Light

Source: Universal Music Enterprises

November 26 and 27 mark the 40th anniversary of the recording of the Rolling Stones concerts at Madison Square Garden that yielded the epochal Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!, the band’s definitive live album. In recognition of that historic occasion when “The World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band” played “The World’s Greatest Stage,” ABKCO Records will release Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! The Rolling Stones In Concert – 40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set and a Super Deluxe Box Set on November 3rd and November 17th respectively.

The late Lester Bangs reviewing the original album in the November 12, 1970 issue of Rolling Stone wrote, “It’s still too soon to tell, but I’m beginning to think Ya-Ya’s just might be the best album they ever made. I have no doubt that it’s the best rock concert ever put on record.”

The Deluxe Box Set comprises three audio CDs including a remastered disc of the original Ya-Ya’s repertoire as well as a disc of five previously unreleased Stones tracks recorded at the same Madison Square Garden shows. The third CD encompasses unreleased performances by the shows’ stellar openers: B.B. King and Ike & Tina Turner, five songs from the former and seven songs from the latter. The Box Set also includes a 56-page Collectors Edition book featuring photos and an essay by Ethan Russell, the acclaimed photographer who accompanied the Stones on the ’69 tour, as well as the original Rolling Stone Magazine review by Lester Bangs and a series of recollections from a cross-section of fans who attended the concerts and a replica of the original Stones ’69 tour poster by David Byrd. There will be a code in a limited number of Box Sets enabling fans to download “I’m Free” for Guitar Hero 5.

Included as well is a bonus DVD by legendary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, also entitled Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! The film includes brilliantly shot full-length performances of the five previously unreleased Stones songs — “Prodigal Son, ” “You Gotta Move,” “Under My Thumb,” “I’m Free” and “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” Beyond the song performances – presented in 5.1 surround sound — the film includes a sequence with Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Jack the donkey during the cover shoot for the Ya-Ya’s album and backstage tête-à-têtes between Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix and Mick Taylor. During “Satisfaction” Janis Joplin is seen doing an impromptu boogaloo at the side of the stage. There is also a sequence shot at Olympic Studios in London during a mixing session plus a heliport summit meeting with the Grateful Dead. The film will have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on September 26.

The Super Deluxe edition of Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert includes all of the content of the Deluxe edition with the addition of three vinyl LPs, one of which has etched images featuring the cover art and the Rolling Stones’ signatures. The accompanying Collectors Edition Book and poster in the Super Deluxe edition have also been expanded to 12 x 12.

ABKCO CEO Jody Klein, in announcing these releases, commented, “The 40th Anniversary Ya-Ya’s Box Sets not only capture the entire musical performances of the Garden concerts for the first time ever but, with the addition of Ethan Russell’s intimate photographs and the Maysles revealing film footage, recreate the magic and mystique of the shows for everyone to experience. It is clear now, 40 years later, that Lester Bangs had it right when he wrote that Ya-Yas was the best rock concert ever put on record.”

Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! The Rolling Stone In Concert – 40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set track listing

Audio disc #1: original Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out album repertoire (remastered)
1. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
2. Carol
3. Stray Cat Blues
4. Love In Vain
5. Midnight Rambler
6. Sympathy For The Devil
7. Live With Me
8. Little Queenie
9. Honky Tonk Women
10. Street Fighting Man
Audio disc #2: unreleased Rolling Stones tracks
1. Prodigal Son
2. You Gotta Move
3 Under My Thumb
4. I’m Free
5. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
Audio disc #2: B.B. King / Ike & Tina Turner sets
1. Everyday I Have The Blues
2. How Blue Can You Get
3. That’s Wrong Little Mama
4. Why I Sing The Blues
5. Please Accept My Love
6. Gimme Some Loving
7. Sweet Soul Music
8. Son Of A Preacher Man
9. Proud Mary
10. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long
11. Come Together
12. Land Of 1000 Dances
Tracks 1 – 5: B.B. King
Tracks 6 – 12: Ike & Tina Turner

DVD: Maysles Brothers” Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out film
1. Prodigal Son
2. You Gotta Move
3. Under My Thumb
4. I’m Free
5. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Universal Music Group is pleased to announce the reissue of Jump Back: The Best Of The Rolling Stones 1971-1993 on August 18, 2009.

Originally released in November 1993, this definitive collection gathers eighteen of the group’s classics from the seventies and eighties, such as the transatlantic Top Ten hits “Tumbling Dice,” “Fool To Cry,” “Emotional Rescue” and the much-loved “Start Me Up.” It also includes the ultimate rock anthem “Brown Sugar,” the ballad “Angie” and the dance-flavored “Miss You,” three U.S. number one singles in wildly different styles–a testament to the band’s versatility, creativity and lasting appeal.

In the compact disc era, Jump Back became the point of entry for fans of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world and was a mainstay of the U.K. album charts throughout the mid-’90s. Indeed, it paved the way for the arrival of the number one studio album Voodoo Lounge in July 1994, and has now been remastered in line with the rest of the group’s post-1971 studio recordings.

Jump Back kicks off in style with the trademark guitar riffs of “Start Me Up” and “Brown Sugar.” It continues with the band’s infectious cover of Bob and Earl’s mod favorite “Harlem Shuffle,” the rallying cry of “It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It),” and cherry-picks its way through eleven Top 5 studio albums, including the country-tinged “Wild Horses” and the intoxicating “Bitch” from 1971′s acknowledged masterpiece Sticky Fingers, and the rockers “Mixed Emotions” and “Rock And A Hard Place” from 1989′s Steel Wheels.

During the seventies and eighties, the Rolling Stones played sold-out concerts to even bigger audiences in stadiums around the world. They made music and headlines wherever they went, from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to the French Riviera via Kingston, Jamaica, and Nassau in the Bahamas. They’ve remained the bad boys of rock, influencing everyone from Aerosmith and the Clash to Guns N’ Roses.

Jump Back eschews the temptation to play it safe and simply run through the group’s catalog chronologically, and is intelligently sequenced for maximum enjoyment at a party or as in-car entertainment. The groove-oriented “Hot Stuff,” from 1976′s Black And Blue, makes a fine segue between the floor-fillers “Miss You” and “Emotional Rescue.” And the sweet jazz-soul of “Waiting On A Friend,” from 1981′s Tattoo You, fits snugly alongside “Beast Of Burden”–a U.S. Top Ten entry never released as a single in the U.K.– and “Wild Horses.” The snarling “Respectable,” from 1978′s Some Girls, proves the Stones could match the punks they had influenced so much, while the collision of reggae, dub, dance and politically charged lyrics that is “Undercover Of The Night” from 1983 stills jumps out of the speakers 25 years on.

Jump Back retains the original packaging of the 1993 edition and comes complete with a 12-page illustrated booklet featuring comments and observations by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards about the eighteen tracks included, offering fans a rare insight into the workings of the band. Jump Back will also be available digitally.

Jump Back – tracklisting
1. Start Me Up
2. Brown Sugar
3. Harlem Shuffle
4. It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll
5. Mixed Emotions
6. Angie
7. Tumbling Dice
8. Fool to Cry
9. Rock and a Hard Place
10. Miss You
11. Hot Stuff
12. Emotional Rescue
13. Respectable
14. Beast of Burden
15. Waiting on a Friend
16. Wild Horses
17. Bitch
18. Undercover of the Night

Source: Universal Music Enterprises

S2BN Entertainment announces the release of the Rolling Stones’ The Biggest Bang Blu-ray, featuring over 3 hours of high-definition video and uncompressed digital 5.1 surround sound.

The Biggest Bang Blu-ray features more than 30 songs and footage from around the world, including their concert in Austin, Texas – a highlight of the U.S. tour, and an exclusive look at the Salt of The Earth Tour documentary including highlights from Argentina, Japan and their first ever concert in China. The Blu-ray also includes classic favorites such as “Honky Tonk Women,” “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Satisfaction.”

The Biggest Bang Blu-ray, distributed by Universal Music Group, will be available starting June 16, 2009, in the U.S. Customers can pre-order the disc at Amazon.

“The Biggest Bang Blu-ray offers fans an all-access pass and a behind-the-scenes look at A Bigger Bang Tour – the best tour of all time,” said Michael Cohl, chairman of S2BN Entertainment and Tour Director. “The visual and audio quality of the Blu-ray is incredible – it’s the next best thing to being front row at a show.”

The Rolling Stones are renowned for their incredible live show DVDs which include Four Flicks, a four-DVD set from the Rolling Stones that was certified 19-times platinum and is the number one selling concert (long form) DVD in U.S. history. The original Biggest Bang standard definition DVD box set, released in 2007, is platinum in the U.S., Canada, France and Australia, and gold in U.K., Germany, Norway, Switzerland and many other countries.

Rolling Stones A Biggest Bang Blu-ray Release

Live from Zilker Park Austin, Texas (93 min.)

1. Opening
2. You Got Me Rocking
3. Let’s Spend the Night Together
4. She’s So Cold
5. Oh No. Not You Again
6. Sway
7. Bob Wills Is Still The King
8. Streets of Love
9. Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
10. Tumbling Dice
11. Learning The Game
12. Little T & A
13. Under My Thumb
14. Get Off My Cloud
15. Honky Tonk Women
16. Sympathy For The Devil
17. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
18. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
19. Brown Sugar

Salt of the Earth
A Bigger Bang Tour Documentary – 70 min

1. How Did It Begin?
2. North American Tour
3. Super Bowl
4. Back Of My Hand
5. Rio
6. China
7. Milan
8. Buenos Aires
9. Midnight Rambler
10. Last Show

Bonus Feature #1 -Austin Mini-Documentary 6:00 min.

Bonus feature #2. Bonus Songs: Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan (13 mins.)

1. Let’s Spend The Night Together
2. Rain Fall Down

3. Rough Justice

TECHNICAL INFORMATION
– Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese
– Picture: 1080i High Definition 16×9 Widescreen
– Audio: Uncompressed PCM Stereo and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
– Blu-ray Discs are Sony Playstation(R) 3 Compatible

Source: Universal Music Enterprises

‘The British Are Coming: The Beatles and The Rolling Stones 1964-66′ as Photographed by Bob Bonis To Remain On View To Accommodate Visitors from NYC and Beyond

Responding to the flood of traffic to their inaugural exhibition, Not Fade Away Gallery has announced it will extend the Bob Bonis photography show, “The British Are Coming: The Beatles and The Rolling Stones 1964-66,” until May 17th. Photos are visible on the gallery’s just-launched interactive website, http://www.notfadeawaygallery.com/.

Not Fade Away Gallery, the new fine art photography gallery (12 East 20th Street, 2nd floor), opened with a bang on March 4th with a VIP reception hosted by Keith Richards’ daughters, Alexandra and Theodora, and attended by luminaries from the music, entertainment and art industries. Since then, the public has turned out in force to view the show’s 58 images (culled from an archive of 3500 photographs) taken by Bob Bonis, tour manager for both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones during their first tours of the U.S. in the 60s.

Documenting the critical point in the bands’ careers when they first came to America, the exhibition features images of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones that demonstrate the level of access and trust Bob Bonis (1932-1991) established with the young men who became the most significant rock musicians of the 20th century. Revealing a private, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the early days of rock ‘n’ roll, the photos show the boys in candid, intimate shots on stage, in rehearsal, in concert, backstage (tuning up, waiting to go on stage and clowning around), dressing and relaxing, on vacations or en route to shows or cities, getting haircuts, bowling, recording in the studio, at press events and just hanging around being themselves.

The provenance of the Bob Bonis archive, which came to light almost 45 years after the photographs were taken, makes for a fascinating story. According to Not Fade Away Gallery co-founder/director Larry Marion, an acknowledged expert in the field of music memorabilia, “In more than twenty years as a rock ‘archeologist,’ I’ve never come upon a discovery of this magnitude. This is likely the largest single trove of such important unknown photographs ever uncovered.”

For over forty years, the negatives and slides were safely stored away unknown to anyone but Bob Bonis’ family. Bob’s son Alex recently unearthed them and brought them–along with his father’s collection of memorabilia from his Tour Manager days–to Larry Marion for appraisal. In fact, the photos were at the bottom of a duffel bag of memorabilia–brought out almost as an afterthought. Now, Alex Bonis is one of the partners in Not Fade Away Gallery, which has begun to make these images available for exhibition and for sale as museum-quality fine art photographic prints (both black-and-white and color), in extremely limited editions, printed on era-appropriate paper, utilizing traditional photographic printing methods.

The Bob Bonis Archive is exclusively represented by the Not Fade Away Gallery. (http://www.notfadeawaygallery.com/)

“The British Are Coming: The Beatles and The Rolling Stones 1964-66″
Not Fade Away Gallery, 12 East 20th Street, 2nd floor (at Broadway)
March 4th-May 17th

All photographs by Bob Bonis, copyright 2009 by 2269 Productions, Inc.

Source: Not Fade Away Gallery

Not Fade Away Gallery (NYC) presents “THE BRITISH ARE COMING!,” a world premiere exhibition of previously unpublished, extraordinary photographs of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones at work and at play … as photographed by Bob Bonis, their first U.S. tour manager.

Forty-five years after The Beatles and The Rolling Stones first came to America, an extraordinary collection of “lost” photos of the young bands has just been discovered. The 3500 photographs — extraordinary, intimate and unpublished — were taken by Bob Bonis, their U.S. Tour manager, during their first U.S. tours (1964, 1965 and 1966) and document perhaps the most critical point in their careers: coming to America.

The Bob Bonis Archive of photographs is now exclusively represented by the Not Fade Away Gallery, which has announced its first show, “The British Are Coming: The Beatles and The Rolling Stones 1964-66,” to inaugurate the Gallery, March 4-April 14. The Not Fade Away Gallery is located in New York City at 901 Broadway, 2nd floor, at the corner of 20th Street.

The Gallery’s first exhibition will feature 50+ images of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones that establish the unparalleled access and close friendship Bob Bonis (1932-1991) had with the young men who became the most significant rock musicians of the 20th century. Revealing a private, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the early days of rock ‘n’ roll, the photos show the boys in candid, intimate shots on stage, in rehearsal, in concert, backstage (tuning up, waiting to go on stage and clowning around), dressing and relaxing, on vacations or en route to shows or cities, getting haircuts, bowling, recording in the studio, at press events and just hanging around being themselves.

“The discovery of so many never-before-seen photographs of the two most influential bands in rock history, captured at the most pivotal time in their careers, is a once-in-a-lifetime event,” says Larry Marion, founder/director of Not Fade Away Gallery (http://www.notfadeawaygallery.com/) and an acknowledged expert in the field of music memorabilia. “In more than twenty years as a rock ‘archeologist,’ I’ve never come upon a discovery of this magnitude — thousands of extraordinary unpublished photographs of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones — young, innocent and unguarded. This is likely the largest single trove of such important unknown photographs ever uncovered.”

For over forty years, the negatives and slides were safely stored away unbeknownst to anyone but Bob Bonis’ family. Bob’s son Alex recently unearthed them and brought them — along with his father’s collection of memorabilia from his Tour Manager days — to Larry Marion for appraisal. In fact, the photos were at the bottom of a duffel bag of memorabilia — brought out almost as an afterthought. Now, Alex Bonis is one of the partners in Not Fade Away Gallery, which will begin to make these images available for exhibition and for sale as museum-quality fine art photographic prints (both black-and-white and color), in extremely limited editions, printed on era-appropriate paper, utilizing traditional photographic printing methods.

A private man, Bob Bonis never sought publicity and wasn’t interested in pursuing attention based on his past exploits. He started out as a New York City talent agent in the late 1950s and through a series of unremarkable circumstances, he came to hold an extraordinary position at a pivotal time in rock history — U.S. Tour Manager for both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones during their first U.S. tours in 1964 and continuing through 1966. Since his personal passion was photography, he took his camera along wherever he could and took photos of everyone he worked with — capturing incredibly intimate photos that the world is about to see for the very first time.

In addition to more than 3,500 photos he took of The Beatles and The Stones, Bob photographed Simon & Garfunkel, The Hollies, Cream, The Lovin’ Spoonful, Buddy Rich, Frank Sinatra and many of the jazz greats he worked with. Not Fade Away Gallery has upcoming shows of these photographs scheduled for the coming year.

The extraordinary private moments Bob Bonis captured are now available for all fans and collectors of music and fine art photography to see and experience at Not Fade Away Gallery, honoring the life and work of Bob Bonis.

“The British Are Coming: The Beatles and The Rolling Stones 1964-66″
Not Fade Away Gallery, 901 Broadway (at 20th Street)
March 4th-April 14th
All photographs by Bob Bonis, copyright 209 by 2269 Productions, Inc.