The Rolling Stones No. 2

Infobox Album | Name = The Rolling Stones No. 2
Type = Album
Artist = The Rolling Stones


Released = 15 January 1965
Recorded = 10 June-11, 24-26, 2 September, 28-29, 2 November, 8, 1964: Chess, Chicago; RCA, Hollywood; and Regent Sound, London.
Genre = Rock
Length = 36:58
Label = Decca
Producer = Andrew Loog Oldham
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rz5uak6k0m3p link]
Last album = "The Rolling Stones"
(1964 UK)

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"12 X 5"
(1964 US)
This album = "The Rolling Stones No. 2"
(1965 UK)
Next album = "Out of Our Heads"
(1965 UK)

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"The Rolling Stones, Now!"
(1965 US) |

"The Rolling Stones No. 2" is the second UK album by The Rolling Stones released in 1965 following the massive success of 1964's debut "The Rolling Stones". Not surprisingly, "The Rolling Stones No. 2" followed its predecessor's tendency to largely feature R&B covers. However, it does contain three compositions from the still-developing Mick Jagger/Keith Richards songwriting team.

Using the cover shot for "12 X 5", the second US-released album in October 1964, "The Rolling Stones No. 2"'s tracklisting would largely be emulated on the upcoming US release of "The Rolling Stones, Now!". While Eric Easton was co-credited as producer alongside Andrew Loog Oldham on The Rolling Stones' debut album, Oldham takes full production duties for "The Rolling Stones No, 2", which was recorded sporadically in the UK and US during 1964.

A huge hit in the United Kingdom upon release, "The Rolling Stones No. 2" spent 10 weeks at #1 in early 1965, becoming one of the year's biggest sellers in the United Kingdom.

Due to the preference towards the American albums, ABKCO Records has overlooked both "The Rolling Stones" and "The Rolling Stones No. 2" for CD release in 1986 and during its remastering series in 2002. Consequently, the album has been out of print for many years and has thus been widely bootlegged by collectors.

Track listing

#"Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" (Solomon Burke/Jerry Wexler/Bert Russell) – 5:03
#* "Available on More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies). The Rolling Stones, Now! contains a slightly different, two minutes shorter version of this song"
#"Down Home Girl" (Jerry Leiber/Arthur Butler) – 4:11
#* "Available on The Rolling Stones, Now!"
#"You Can't Catch Me" (Chuck Berry) – 3:38
#* "Available on The Rolling Stones, Now!"
#"Time Is on My Side" (Norman Meade) – 2:58
#* "Available on Hot Rocks 1964-1971. Typified by its guitar, this version of the song is different from the one found on 12 X 5."
#"What a Shame" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) – 3:03
#* "Available on The Rolling Stones, Now!"
#"Grown Up Wrong" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) – 1:50
#* "Available on 12 X 5."
#"Down The Road Apiece" (Don Raye) – 2:55
#* "Available on The Rolling Stones, Now!"
#"Under the Boardwalk" (Arthur Resnick/Kenny Young) – 2:46
#* "Available on 12 X 5"
#"I Can't Be Satisfied" (McKinley Morganfield) – 3:26
#* "Available on More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)"
#"Pain In My Heart" (Naomi Neville) – 2:11
#* "Available on The Rolling Stones, Now!"
#"Off The Hook" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) – 2:33
#* "Available on The Rolling Stones, Now!"
#"Susie Q" (Eleanor Broadwater/Dale Hawkins/Stanley Lewis) – 1:50
#* "Available on 12 X 5"

Personnel

* Mick Jagger - Lead vocals, harmonica, tambourine, percussion
* Keith Richards - Guitars, vocals
* Brian Jones - Guitar, rhythm guitar, slide guitar
* Charlie Watts - Drums, percussion
* Bill Wyman - Bass guitar, vocals

* Ian Stewart - Piano
* Jack Nitzsche - Piano, 'Nitzsche' Phone, tambourine

Charts

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