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.

Long hailed by die hard Rolling Stones fans as one of the band’s greatest live performances, the Brussels 1973 show has been a mainstay in the underground music world for years.

Brussels was the penultimate stop on a European tour that the Rolling Stones embarked on in the fall of 1973 to promote their No. 1 album Goats Head Soup. The 21-city tour was met by ecstatic crowds, causing the band to frequently perform two shows a day, as they did at the Forest National arena in Brussels. Despite the frenetic pace, the road trip yielded some of the band’s greatest music on stage.

The Brussels gigs capture that greatness. From the opening chords of ‘Brown Sugar’ to the closing crescendo of ‘Street Fighting Man’, the Rolling Stones were firing on all cylinders: Keith Richards and Charlie Watts churning out a locomotive-like rhythm section, Bill Wyman on fine form with his trademark solid basslines, guitarist Mick Taylor delivering a barrage of blistering leads, with Mick Jagger growling and grinding in his blue-sequined best.

This new digital release, pulled exclusively from the two Brussels gigs, was taken from the original multi-track masters recorded by Andy Johns on the Rolling Stones Mobile unit. Longtime Stones collaborator Bob Clearmountain applied the final mix.

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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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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.

Produced by the Glimmer Twins, Chris Kimsey and Don Was, the material also includes guest appearances by Stones diehards Ian Stewart and Chuck Leavell on pianos, harmonica player Sugar Blue (who also provided the unforgettable motif on the ‘Some Girls’ smash ‘Miss You’), and for trivia freaks even handclaps on one song by former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty.

The collection includes a wealth of fine Jagger-Richards compositions along with some fascinating cover versions, collectively reflecting the stripped-down rock ‘n’ roll, blues and country flavours of the famed 1978 album. ‘So Young,’ ‘When You’re Gone’ (co-written by Ronnie Wood), ‘Keep Up Blues’ and ‘Petrol Blues’ all evoke the band’s enduring rhythm and blues roots. ‘Don’t Be A Stranger’ is an infectious shuffle and ‘Love You Too Much’ an archetypal Stones rocker.

‘Do You Think I Really Care,’ with its lyrical imagery of New York City, and the mid-tempo road tale ‘No Spare Parts’ dovetail with ‘Far Away Eyes’ and the ‘Some Girls’ title track in reflecting the band’s longtime love of country music. No Spare Parts will be released as a single.

As if all of that wasn’t enough to keep the hungriest Stones fan happy, there are three exceptional interpretations to add to their long list of distinguished cover versions. Keith takes the lead vocals on ‘We Had It All,’ written by the great Southern songwriters Troy Seals and Donnie Fritts and recorded by such country greats as Waylon Jennings and Conway Twitty. There’s a rocking take on Freddy Cannon’s 1959 favourite ‘Tallahassee Lassie’ and an assured version of the Hank Williams standard ‘You Win Again.’

“It’s wonderful to see the quality of these tracks measuring up to the songs that came out on the original album,” says Ronnie Wood. “It’s an extension of what was going on then,” adds Keith Richards. “Sometimes great stuff gets left behind and its great to see it out there.”

VH1, VH1 Classic, and Palladia are shining a light on one of the most iconic rock bands of all time, The Rolling Stones, during Thanksgiving week.  Starting, Wednesday, November 24th at 9PM*, VH1 Classic will premiere two new programs that showcase the Rolling Stones’ “Exile on Main Street” era.  The Thanksgiving week programming caps off with the world television premiere of “VH1 Rock Doc: Shine A Light,” the 2008 documentary directed by Academy-Award winner, Martin Scorsese premiering on VH1, VH1 Classic and Palladia on Friday, November 26th at 9PM*

Wednesday, November 24th:

VH1 Classic is kicking off its Rolling Stones Thanksgiving feast with the pivotal documentary “Let’s Spend the Night Together” at 9PM*. The acclaimed film directed by Hal Ashby chronicles a performance from the Stones’ 1981 tour, including the major classics from their album “Some Girls” album, including “Just My Imagination,” “Beast of Burden,” and “Some Girls.”

Thursday, November 25th

After Thanksgiving dinner settle down for the rest of your evening with VH1 Classic and Palladia with the premiere “Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones” at 9PM*. This rarely seen concert footage from the band’s 1972 North American “Exile on Main Street” tour, draws from two concerts that took place in Texas and includes hits from their album as well as standards “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “Satisfaction,” “Brown Sugar,” and many more.

Topping off the evening, VH1 Classic will bring fans “In Rehearsal: The Rolling Stones at Montreux” at 10:30PM*. Hosted by VH1 Classic Rock Night radio show host, Eddie Webb, this documentary shows unique and never-before-seen rehearsal footage depicts the band preparing for their appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1972. The documentary also features The Rolling Stones performing “Tumbling Dice”, “Loving Cup”, “Shake Your Hips” and a 3 minute long blues jam.

Friday, November 26th:

Settle in for a treat as VH1, VH1 Classic, and Palladia simulcast the world television premiere of the “VH1 Rock Doc: Shine A Light” at 9PM*. The 2008 documentary directed by Martin Scorsese, documents The Rolling Stones’ 2006 Beacon Theater performance in New York City on their “A Bigger Bang Tour.” The documentary includes archive footage from the band’s career and also shows Jack White, Buddy Guy and Christina Aguilera performing with The Rolling Stones.

“Shine A Light” is the newest film in the Emmy Award-winning VH1 Rock Doc franchise.  VH1 Rock Docs are feature-length documentaries that tell unique stories of artists and music from a wide range of genres, styles and musical perspectives.

“Shine A Light” is a production of VH1, in association with Shangri-La Entertainment. Brad Abramson, Stephen Mintz, and Jeff Olde serve as executive producers for VH1.

VH1 connects viewers to the music, artists and pop culture that matter to them most with TV series, specials, live events, exclusive online content and public affairs initiatives. VH1 is available in 98 million households in the U.S. VH1 also has an array of digital channels and services including VH1Classic, VH1 Soul, VH1.com and VH1 Mobile.

Launched in May 2000, VH1 Classic is a 24-hour network that present videos, concerts and music specials all day long, featuring the best of rock, soul and pop artists from the 60′s, 70′s and 80′s, including The Beatles, The Stones, Tina Turner, Led Zeppelin, Marvin Gaye, The Who, Stevie Wonder, The Police, Madonna and many more.  Learn more at VH1Classic.com.

Palladia, MTV Networks’ high-definition music channel, launched in January 2006 and features original music-based programming for a variety of music genres, including hip hop, rock, country, pop, reggaeton, soul and more, as well as HDTV acquisitions and original content from MTV Networks Music Group’s MTV, VH1, and CMT family of services.  The channel has grown to 28 million households and is available on major U.S. carriers including Comcast, Cox, Verizon FiOS, Time Warner, Dish, DIRECTV, Charter, AT&T u-Verse and Insight.

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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.

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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

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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.”

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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

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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

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