NEW YORK (Virgin Records) - The
Rolling Stones are documenting their hugely successful 2002-2003 world tour with the Virgin Records release of Live Licks, a two-CD set featuring guest appearances by
Sheryl Crow and soul legend Solomon Burke, as well as 11 tracks never before released on a Stones live disc.
The 2002-2003 tour celebrated both the band's 40th anniversary and the release of 40 Licks, the first Stones greatest-hits collection to span the group's entire career. Like the tour, Live Licks finds the band in a celebratory mood, delivering both the many hits in its deep, illustrious catalogue, as well as lesser-known cuts and covers.
Finding Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood as charismatic, intimate and commanding as ever, Live Licks is divided in halves: Disc one is a collection of such anthemic, universally loved songs as "Honky Tonk Women" (featuring Sheryl Crow), "Paint It Black," "Brown Sugar," "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "Angie," "Start Me Up" and "Gimme Shelter."
Disc two includes a collection of such lesser-known gems as "Can't You Hear Me Knocking," "Rocks Off," "When The Whip Comes Down" and "Worried About You." This disc also includes Keith Richards' rendition of the Hoagy Carmichael classic "The Nearness of You," as well as Stones versions of "Rock Me, Baby" and "That's How Strong My Love Is," songs not written by but associated with B.B. King and Otis Redding, respectively. Disc two ends with Solomon Burke joining the band for a version of his own "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love."
Playing to more than 2 million people worldwide, the Stones' 2002-2003 tour visited everything from theaters to stadiums, sometimes in the same city (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc.).
Seeing the band visit Eastern Europe and the Far East for the first time, the 40 Licks tour garnered rave reviews wherever it touched down, and found the band's live chops to be untouched by four decades:
"The Stones sang and played like the world champion rockers they became decades ago, but with an in-the-moment passion of a band that still had something to prove," noted Randy Lewis in The Los Angeles Times. "They are still the greatest rock n roll band in the world," raved Nigel Williamson of the U.K.'s Uncut.
Rolling Stones- Live Licks (2 cd set) in-stores 11/2
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 (featuring Sheryl Crow)
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
Note: None of the tracks on Disc 2 have been available on any previous Rolling Stones live CDs.
