Available in five different formats, including a three-CD 50 track version including 50 tracks, and a four-CD super-deluxe version gathering a whopping 80 tracks, the collection tells the fascinating ongoing story of the Greatest Rock’n'Roll Band In The World, from their high octane version of Chuck Berry’s “Come On”, their first single issued in June 1963, via the thrilling chart-toppers “The Last Time”, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”, “Get Off Of My Cloud”, “Jumping Jack Flash”, “Honky Tonk Women” and the perennial juke-box and concert favourites “Brown Sugar”, “Tumbling Dice”, “Miss You” and “Start Me Up”, all the way to the present day with the inclusion of “Doom And Gloom” and “One More Shot”, two new studio recordings recently completed by the group in Paris, France in August 2012.

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This album was recorded at the show on 26th February, and features Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and Bill Wyman, who in August of that year, would play his last ever show with the Rolling Stones. The touring band included Bobby Keys, Chuck Leavell, Lisa Fischer, Cindy Mizelle, Bernard Fowler, Matt Clifford and the Uptown Horns. The Steel Wheels/ Urban Jungle tour became the highest grossing tour of all time. But it’s not just the figures that set this show apart from others, the Rolling Stones revisited songs from their psychedelic period such as “2000 Light Years From Home” and “Ruby Tuesday”, with cosmic results. In 2012 Bob Clearmountain applied the mix.

The album features the final performance of the Rolling Stones’ five night residency at the Los Angeles Forum. The show was part of the Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas, which started with a bang, the band playing on a flatbed truck driving down 5th Avenue in New York City, showcasing their new guitarist, Ronnie Wood. The lineup for the show is Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Bill Wyman, Ian “Stu” Stewart, Billy Preston, Ollie E. Brown and Trevor Lawrence. Mixed by Bob Clearmountain, the album contains an incredible versions of “Fingerprint File” and “Angie”.

The tour combined small theatres and huge stadiums. The Fort Worth show had capacity for just 3000. The 1978 tour began in Lakeland, Florida on the 10th June, by the time they arrived in Texas the Stones had played 19 shows. Billboard magazine said of the tour, “No flash, no gimmicks, just rock ‘n’ roll.” The band included Mick, Keith, Charlie, Ronnie, Bill and Ian Stewart on piano (the day of the Fort Worth show was his 40th birthday) as well as Ronnie’s former Faces bandmate keyboard player (and now Texas resident) Ian ‘Mac’ McLagan.

Remastered in 2011 by Bob Clearmountain, the album is currently only available when bought with the DVD of the concert.

Christina Aguilera makes a guest appearance on “Live With Me”, the great Chess blues guitarist, Buddy Guy plays on the Muddy Waters song, “Champagne and Reefer”, and Jack White joined the band on guitar and vocals for “Loving Cup”. The film had its premiere in February 2008 and has some interesting song choices that Scorsese encouraged them to choose.

Spanning over thirty years of recordings on the Rolling Stones’ own record label, this compilation features seldom heard B-sides, remixes (including a very tasty 12” version of “Miss You”), and off-cuts from albums, where tracks didn’t get to see the light of day due to time/ space limitations. “Fancy Man Blues” (originally a B-side for “Mixed Emotions”) is Jagger/ Richards at their finest blues-inspired songwriting.

Released eight years after Bridges To Babylon this was the longest wait for a studio album in the band’s career. It is reminiscent of earlier, rootsier albums and a departure from the big sounding, more produced albums of the last two decades. The first single from the album was “Rough Justice”, a classic Stones rocker, with a killer riff and smart lyrics (which even mention little roosters!) The double A-side was the anthemic Streets Of Love, which became hugely popular at live shows because of the sing-a-long chorus. “Rain Fall Down” was later released as a single, a nod back to the disco floor-filler “Miss You”, but with a harder blues bass, provided by Darryl Jones. The spine tingling “Back Of My Hand” could’ve been an off cut from Sticky Fingers or Exile On Main St, and “Look What The Cat Dragged In” is full of firey riffs and sultry, sneering lyrics.

The Licks Tour comprised of 117 separate shows. The band played America, Canada, Australia, Japan, Singapore, India, before reaching Europe in the summer of 2003, where they played across the continent. The tour finished in Hong Kong in November 2003. The album features guest appearances by Sheryl Crow for “Honky Tonk Women” (which she’d first sung with the band back on the BridgesTo Babylon tour) and the legendary Solomon Burke performed “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love” with the band in Paris, a song he wrote and the Stones covered on The Rolling Stones No. 2 in 1965.

This forty year, forty track, career spanning two CD set combined songs from the early years with Decca and London Records right through to the most recent albums with Rolling Stones Records material. Although remastered, all the pre 1968 material remains mono. The album also features four new songs, recorded in Paris, “Don’t Stop”, “Keys To Your Love”, “Stealing My Heart” and “Losing My Touch”. As well as getting to No.2 in both the UK, where it sold 900,000 and the USA, where it sold 2 million copies, it topped the charts in Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy and New Zealand.

The band carefully selected tracks that had rarely been featured on other live albums, including “Gimme Shelter” and the tender “Memory Motel”, which features vocals from Mick, Keith and guest Dave Matthews. For the track “Corinna”, the band teamed up with their old friend Taj Mahal (who the Stones first worked with for Rock and Roll Circus) who wrote the song. The recordings were made in Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Nuremberg, St. Louis and at MTV’s Live from the 10 Spot.

The album is currently unavailable but will be reissued later this year.

The album sold 1.1 million copies in America and topped the charts in Austria, Germany, Norway and Sweden, made no.2 in Belgium, Canada, France and the Netherlands. Recorded in Los Angeles between March and July 1997, the album featured a darker sound for the band on tracks like “Anybody Seen My Baby”, “Thief In The Night” and “Gunface”. “Saint Of Me” highlights Jagger’s unique strengths as a lyricist and the words are a latter answer to “Sympathy For The Devil” and “Undercover Of The Night”. Keith gives sublime lead vocals on the reggae-inspired “You Don’t Have To Mean It”, a truly romantic track.

The whole concept of the Rock And Roll Circus was as much about the visuals as the music, so this CD release, nearly 30 years after it all happened in December 1968, does not fully do justice to the extravaganza that also featured The Who, Jethro Tull, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Mitch Mitchell, Eric Clapton, Marianne Faithfull and Taj Mahal. The Stones perform four tracks from the newly released Beggars Banquet including a magnificent version of “Sympathy For The Devil”, as well as the newly penned “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and “Jumping Jack Flash”:

The Stones take on the unplugged format with a selection of previously released songs, either recorded live in the studio, in Tokyo and Lisbon, with no overdubs, or at smaller venues in London, Amsterdam and Paris during the Voodoo Lounge Tour. The first single release from this album was a cover of Bob Dylan’s Like A Rolling Stone that was recorded at London’s Brixton Academy on 19th July 1995. It made No.12 in Britain and became the highest charting Stones record in over a decade. Among the other musicians on the album are long-time backing vocalists Bernard Fowler and Lisa Fischer, Saxophonist Bobby Keys and keyboard player, Chuck Leavell.