The Rolling Stones “Forty Licks” Originally released in 2002 to commemorate their 40th Anniversary as a band, “Forty Licks” was a huge commercial success, selling over 7 million copies around the world. Widely regarded as their definitive career-spanning best-of compilation, “Forty Licks” is now available to in limited 180-gram black 4LP, housed in a wide-spined gatefold sleeve. Many of the Rolling Stones’ catalogue of albums recorded between 1963 and 1970, largely by the original Jagger/Richards/Jones/Watts/Wyman line-up, are being reissued by ABKCO Records throughout the remainder of 2023 and into early 2024 with vinyl editions of these 16 releases on 180-gram LPs. Some of these titles have been out-of-print as stand-alone vinyl records for the past 37 years.
“Forty Licks”, the album that gathered together fully three dozen of the most enduring and anthemic songs from the group’s peerless career and added four then-new tracks to their incredible story, is to be released for the first time, in a lavish, limited edition four-disc, 180-gram black vinyl version, housed in a wide-spined gatefold sleeve, on July 28.
ABKCO is premiering a new visualizer video for “Gimme Shelter” which features an animated zoetrope of the cake from the “Let It Bleed” cover art.
The “Forty Licks” collection includes 20 (U.S.) Top 10 singles of which 13 broke into the Top 5 and seven going all the way to #1 including “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “Miss You,” “Brown Sugar,” “Paint It, Black,” “Honky Tonk Women,” “Get Off of My Cloud” and “Angie.”
During the 1960s, it was customary for album release versions to differ depending on the territory in which they were released and this was the case with the Stones in that era. Their U.K. label, Decca Records, and U.S. label, London Records, had separate schedules, often utilizing different cover art and different tune stacks for a given title.
Plus, take a look at exclusive “Forty Licks” merch designs, only available at The Rolling Stones official store
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