Forty Licks

Infobox Album | Name = Forty Licks
Type = Compilation album
Artist = The Rolling Stones

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Released = 30 September 2002
Recorded = January 1964 -
7 June 2002
Genre = Rock
Length = 155:52 (77:32 + 78:20)
Label = Virgin/ABKCO/Decca
Producer = Andrew Loog Oldham,
The Rolling Stones,
Jimmy Miller,
The Glimmer Twins,
Chris Kimsey, Don Was and The Dust Brothers
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:nsrj284l058a~T1 link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/therollingstones/albums/album/161286/review/5946386/forty_licks link]
Last album = "No Security"
(1998)
This album = "Forty Licks"
(2002)
Next album = "Live Licks"
(2004)

"Forty Licks" is a double compilation album by The Rolling Stones. A forty-year career-spanning retrospective, "Forty Licks" is notable for being the first retrospective to combine the band's formative Decca/London era of the 1960s, now licensed by ABKCO Records (Disc 1), with their self-owned post-1970 material, currently distributed by Virgin Records (Disc 2).

History

Forty Licks was compiled following the enormous success of The Beatles' "1" compilation from 2000.Released in September, "Forty Licks" peaked at #2 in the UK and US - behind Elvis Presley's "" package — selling close to 8 million units worldwide. In the United States alone, it is certified quadruple platinum. Of the four new songs featured on Disc Two, "Don't Stop" was promoted as a single, becoming a minor hit in both the UK and the US. Curiously, the album contained no songs from the "Dirty Work" or "The Rolling Stones, Now(US)", "The Rolling Stones No.2"(UK). Though that album is generally seen as a weak point in the Stones' discography, the decision not even to include "Harlem Shuffle" or "One Hit (to the Body)" is a somewhat strong reaction to the critical opinion of most of the remaining album.

Concurrently with the album's release, The Rolling Stones embarked on the successful, year-long international Licks Tour, which would result in "Live Licks" in 2004.

Track listing

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

Disc one

#"Street Fighting Man" – 3:15
#"Gimme Shelter" – 4:31
#"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" – 3:43
#"The Last Time" – 3:41
#"Jumpin' Jack Flash" – 3:42
#"You Can't Always Get What You Want" – 7:28
#"19th Nervous Breakdown" – 3:56
#"Under My Thumb" – 3:41
#"Not Fade Away" (Charles Hardin/Norman Petty) – 1:48
#"Have You Seen Your Mother Baby?" – 2:35
#"Sympathy for the Devil" – 6:17
#"Mother's Little Helper" – 2:46
#"She's a Rainbow" – 4:13
#*Single version (album version 4:35)
#"Get Off of My Cloud" – 2:55
#"Wild Horses" – 5:43
#"Ruby Tuesday" – 3:13
#"Paint It, Black" – 3:44
#"Honky Tonk Women" – 3:00
#"It's All Over Now" (Bobby Womack/Shirley Jean Womack) – 3:26
#"Let's Spend the Night Together" – 3:26

Disc two

#"Start Me Up" – 3:33
#"Brown Sugar" – 3:50
#"Miss You" – 3:35
#*Single version (album version 4:48)
#"Beast of Burden" – 3:28
#*Single version (album version 4:25)
#"Don't Stop" – 3:59
#"Happy" – 3:05
#"Angie" – 4:32
#"You Got Me Rocking" – 3:34
#"Shattered" – 3:46
#"Fool to Cry" – 4:07
#*Single version (album version 5:04)
#"Love Is Strong" – 3:48
#"Mixed Emotions" – 4:01
#*Single version (album version 4:39)
#"Keys to Your Love" – 4:11
#"Anybody Seen My Baby?" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards/K.D. Lang/Ben Mink) – 4:08
#*Edit version (album version 4:31)
#"Stealing My Heart" – 3:42
#"Tumbling Dice" – 3:47
#"Undercover of the Night" – 4:13
#*Edit version (album version 4:33)
#"Emotional Rescue" – 3:41
#*Edit version (album version 5:39)
#"It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)" – 4:09
#*Edit version (album version 5:07)
#"Losing My Touch" – 5:06
* "Tracks 5, 13, 15 and 20 are new recordings from 2002 exclusive to this album"

Personnel

Rolling Stones

* Mick Jagger - Lead vocals, harmonica, percussion, guitar, electric piano
* Keith Richards - Lead guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals, Bass, bowed double bass, lead vocals
* Charlie Watts - Drums, percussion, backing vocals
* Bill Wyman - Bass, maracas, backing vocals, bowed double bass
* Brian Jones - Lead guitar, rhythm guitar, tamboura, marimba, harmonica, backing vocals, recorder, piano, sitar
* Mick Taylor - Lead guitar, slide guitar, rhythm guitar, bass, backing vocals
* Ronnie Wood - Guitars, backing vocals, O/D bass drum, bass

Guests

* Madelaine Bell - Backing Vocals
* Sugar Blue - Harmonica
* Blondie Chaplin - Background Vocals, Shaker
* Merry Clayton - Vocals
* Mel Collins - Sax
* Sara Dash - Backing Vocals
* Jim Dickinson - Piano
* Rocky Dijon - Percussion, Congas
* Sly Dunbar - Percussion
* Marianne Faithfull - Backing Vocals
* Lisa Fischer - Backing Vocals
* Bernard Fowler - Backing Vocals
* Nicky Harrison - String Arrangement
* Nicky Hopkins - Piano, Backing Vocals
* Kick Horns - Brass
* Luis Jardim - Percussion
* Darryl Jones - Bass
* John Paul Jones - Arrangement of Strings
* Bobby Keyes - Sax, Percussion
* Clydie King - Backing Vocals
* Al Kooper - Piano, French Horn, Organ
* Chuck Leavell - Piano, Organ, Keyboards
* The London Bach Choir - Choir
* Dave Mason - Shenai
* Ian McLagan - Electric Piano
* Jimmy Miller - Percussion, Drums, Cowbell, Additional Drumming
* Jamie Muhoberac - Bass, Keyboards
* Ivan Neville - Background Vocals
* Nanette Newman - Backing Vocals
* Jack Nitzsche - Piano, Choral Arrangements
* Anita Pallenberg - Backing Vocals
* Jim Price - Trumpet, Trombone
* Ian Stewart - Piano
* Doris Troy - Backing Vocals
* Vanetta - Backing Vocals
* Waddy Wachtel - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
* Don Was - Keyboards
* Denis O'Regan - photography

Charts

Album

Singles

External links

* [http://www.godgammeldags.nu/rolling/stones/40_licks/ Rolling Stones 40 LICKS] 40 LICKS Rolling Stones