Features the bonus track “Bad Luck Hideaway”.
When you’ve come back as successfully as the Stones did with Hackney Diamonds, what exactly do you do for an encore? Its renewed urgency, communal goodwill and, more importantly, the strongest Stones music in years made it a hard act to follow. The temptation to deliver a straight- forward sequel must have been strong. Indeed, there are superficial links with Foreign Tongues: returning producer Andrew Watt and a clutch of songs begun during those 2023 sessions. But while Hackney Diamonds was about return and resurgence, its successor offers something more nuanced. Above all, the Stones’ 25th studio album carries an unforced pleasure in playing together – striking in a band that might easily…
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“This is our last concert, ever. And we’d love to do you for now on our last concert ever…” After the words peter out, a ragged, yet blistering, five-minute version of “(I Can’t Get no) Satisfaction” explodes from the stage. Show over, The Rolling Stones leave Hawaii’s Honolulu International Center to…what?
The Paris show from June 1976 had never been officially released in full before, so having a polished, band-sanctioned video of it, from the heyday of the band’s European 1976 tour, is a major archival win.
…features a brand new mix by Steven Wilson, alongside a six track disc of previously unreleased recordings, including the Jagger/Richards composition “I Love Ladies“, plus a take on Shirley & Company’s “Shame, Shame, Shame”. Also included are four Stones instrumental jams from the 1975 sessions featuring the guest guitarists. The set also includes a full live concert recording from the band’s celebrated six night residency at London’s Earls Court Exhibition Centre in May 1976, where they were joined onstage by Ian Stewart, Billy Preston and Ollie Brown.