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The Rolling Stones, Now! (1965)

Where the lyrics of The Rolling Stones, Now! take you, and where it was really made.

Mostly built from songs already released in the UK, this third American album was a US-market record made from British material.

Key places

Where most of the album was recorded (1965)

Recording site RCA Studios — Most songs on the album were recorded at the RCA Records studio in Hollywood, California, between June and November 1964, according to the source. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Chicago sessions at Chess Records (1965)

Recording site Chicago Recording Company — Some songs for the album were recorded at the Chess Records studio in Chicago in 1964, as part of the sessions between June and November. The point is placed at city-centre level. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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London session for 'Mona' (1965)

Recording site Regent Sound Studios — The track 'Mona (I Need You Baby)' was recorded on 3–4 January 1964 at Regent Sound Studios in London, the one exception to the album's other sessions. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• The Rolling Stones, Now!: third American studio album by the Rolling Stones
• Released 13 February 1965 by London Records, their initial American distributor
• Contains two previously unissued songs and an alternative version
• Mostly songs first released earlier in the United Kingdom
• Includes the group's recent US single 'Heart of Stone' backed with 'What a Shame'
• Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote four songs, including the US single; the rest were composed by American rhythm and blues and rock and roll artists

Background

• An American-market album that gathers material released earlier in the UK
• Liner notes on initial pressings carried producer Andrew Loog Oldham's advice to record buyers
• That advice was quickly temporarily removed from some subsequent pressings

Recording

• Songs recorded between 10 June and 8 November 1964 at the Chess Records studio in Chicago and the RCA Records studio in Hollywood, California
• 'Mona (I Need You Baby)' recorded 3–4 January 1964 at Regent Sound Studios, London

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed in London in 1962 as an English rock band; their first stable line-up was Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts.
• Jones named the band after a Muddy Waters song; they were rooted in blues and rock and roll.
• Manager Andrew Loog Oldham encouraged them to write their own songs, and the Jagger–Richards partnership became their main creative force.

Members

• Current: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood (joined 1975).
• Former: Brian Jones (died 1969), Mick Taylor (1969–1974), Bill Wyman (1962–1993), Charlie Watts (1963–2021, died 2021).
• Steve Jordan became their drummer after Watts' death.

Career

• Hits included "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (1965), "Paint It Black" (1966) and "Start Me Up" (1981).
• Their 1969 Hyde Park show and Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St. are key points of their career.
• Formed Rolling Stones Records in 1970, whose tongue-and-lips logo became their band logo.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989; the band has sold more than 250 million albums.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

Reappraisal

• Richie Unterberger, AllMusic: 5 out of 5 stars in a retrospective review, the site's highest rating
• Unterberger wrote that the album is almost uniformly strong from start to finish, with emphasis on the group's blackest material
• The Rolling Stone Album Guide: 5 out of 5 stars, the highest rating for a pre-Aftermath album by the group
• The Rolling Stone Album Guide ranked it at number 180 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
• Music critic Robert Christgau counted it among the first four rock albums he bought
• Christgau called it 'easily the sharpest' of the pre-Aftermath Stones LPs
• Paul Gambaccini's 1978 book Critic's Choice: Top 200 Albums included it at number nine in Christgau's top-10 submission
• Christgau also listed it in his Basic Record Library of 1950s and 1960s recordings

Records

• Billboard 200 album chart: number five
• Certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The liner notes on early pressings carried a jokey buying advice from producer Andrew Loog Oldham, which was quickly removed from some later pressings and also appeared on some issues of the UK Rolling Stones No. 2 LP.
• In August 2002 ABKCO Records reissued the album as a remastered CD and SACD digipak, adding stereo mixes of 'Heart of Stone', 'What a Shame', and 'Down the Road Apiece'.
• Some mid-1990s CD releases used the five-minute version of the opening track, which first appeared on the UK LP, even though their covers and track listings claimed the 2:57 version.
• Robert Christgau bought this album as one of the first four rock albums he ever purchased.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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