“GRRR!”, the album, will be available in various formats including a three-CD 50-track version, a four-CD Super-Deluxe version with 80 tracks and a 12-inch vinyl box set, the group said in a statement on Tuesday. Releasing in November, it contains their very first single “Come On” as well.
Chuck Berry’s “Come On”, issued in June 1963, and chart-topping vintage Stones tunes such as “Satisfaction”, “Jumping Jack Flash” and “Brown Sugar” will be in the album, along with two new studio recordings recently completed by the group in Paris.
“These brand new recordings constitute the first time Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood have all been together in the studio since completing the exalted ‘A Bigger Bang’ album in 2005,” the statement said.
News about the release of the album comes on the heels of a Billboard report last week that the Stones are set to play a series of four concerts in November in New York and London.
Jagger, Richards, Watts and Wood will play two dates at London’s O2 arena and two at Brooklyn’s new Barclays Center, which has yet to be completed, Billboard reported.
News of the shows comes after the band members initially said they would not tour this year, then hinted at upcoming gigs during a book launch and photography exhibit in London over the summer marking their anniversary.
The Stones, who last toured from 2005 to 2007 with their top-grossing “Bigger Bang” show, were formed in London in 1962 and are one of the longest-performing rock bands in the world. They have sold an estimated 200 million records worldwide.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 6th, 2012.
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One amazing band that gave us some really awesome tunes which are now timeless classics! After all these years they are still going strong, performing, entertaining, giving good music (something so rare these days) and most important of all, they have had a profound impact on rock/pop music and have inspired a generation of musicians by their work.
Jagger, Richards, Watts and Wood, thank you for the music, you guys are very much there among greats like Elvis, Beatles and Zepplin, etc.