The Brussels Affair '73

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The Brussels Affair '73
Live album from The Rolling Stones

Publication
(s)

November 17, 2011 (outside of the US)

admission

17th October 1973

Label (s) Promotone BV

Format (s)

Download ( MP3 , FLAC )

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

15th

running time

79:33

occupation

Location (s)

Forest National ( Brussels )

chronology
Exile on Main St. (Deluxe)
(2010) 		The Brussels Affair '73 Some Girls - Live In Texas '78
(2011)

The Brussels Affair '73 is a live album recorded in 1973 as part of the Rolling Stones ' European tour and released on November 17, 2011. It contains a compilation of recordings of two concerts the band gave on October 17, 1973 in the Arena Forest National in Brussels . An album with the title Brussels Affair 1973 with recordings of these performances had already found distribution as blackmail and gave the authorized album its name. After initially being offered as a download only, the album was also released on LP in 2012 as part of various limited-edition box sets .

history

During the European tour, which took place from September 1 to October 19, 1973, the French government refused the Rolling Stones entry to France because Keith Richards had come into conflict with the law over drugs. The band therefore gave one of two concerts in the Forest National in Brussels on October 17, 1973 especially for French fans. They were able to travel to the Belgian capital using special trains rented from RTL Radio .

Both appearances were professionally recorded. The Rolling Stones' plans to compile a live album from it were not realized until 2011. However, there were various bootlegs with recordings of the concerts, including albums with the names Bedspring Symphony , The Rolling Stones in concert 1973 and Brussels Affair 1973 . The source for the bootlegs was, among other things, the American radio program King Biscuit Flower Hour , in which the professional recordings of the first concert in the afternoon were broadcast. From the second concert only a few songs were circulated in significantly poorer quality.

It was not until 2011 that an authorized release came about, for which Bob Clearmountain created the final mix of the concert recordings that Andy Johns had made in the Rolling Stones mobile studio. The album was offered for sale in the USA on November 16, 2011 by the Internet service Google Music as the first of a series of six concert albums by the band. The download albums of this Rolling Stones Bootleg Series with previously unpublished recordings are distributed exclusively via the Google Play online shop (in which Google Music has been integrated since March 2012, until then the online shop was via Android Market ). Only customers from countries where Google Play is not available can buy the concerts in collaboration with Google Music in the online shop of the Rolling Stones Archive , a website launched on November 17th. At the time of publication, this affected all customers outside the US; Since November 13, 2012, German customers can purchase the albums via Google Play. The Stones Archive is operated by Bravado, Universal Music's merchandising company .

Because of the popularity of the well-known black press, “Brussels Affair” was retained in the title. However, the content of the album differs from this and the other bootleg releases that existed before. The covers for the album shown in the Rolling Stones Archive and on Google Play vary in terms of naming: in the Rolling Stones Archive it is titled The Brussels Affair '73 , on Google Play the title Brussels Affair (Live 1973) .

Includes a combination of recordings from the band's first and second performance. Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) , Dancing with Mr. D , Star Star and Angie are songs from the 1973 studio album Goats Head Soup , which was followed by the European tour.

Track list

  1. Brown Sugar - 3:54
  2. Gimme Shelter - 5.31
  3. Happy - 3:13
  4. Tumbling Dice - 5:02
  5. Star Star - 4:15
  6. Dancing With Mr. D - 4:36
  7. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) - 5:01
  8. Angie - 5:13
  9. You Can't Always Get What You Want - 10:57
  10. Midnight Rambler - 12:49
  11. Honky Tonk Women - 3:10
  12. All Down The Line - 4:19
  13. Rip This Joint - 2:24
  14. Jumping Jack Flash - 3:26
  15. Street Fighting Man - 5:13

Brown Sugar , Midnight Rambler and Street Fighting Man are recordings from the first performance, the other tracks from the second (a guitar solo by Mick Taylor in All Down The Line was taken from the recording of the song from the first concert). The song sequence corresponds to the setlist of the second gig, which minus Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) is identical to that of the first.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Pre-order The Brussels Affair box set. In: rollingstones.com. August 29, 2012, accessed January 6, 2014 (announced on the Rolling Stones website).
  2. ↑ Nico Zentgraf: 1973. Section 1st September - 19th October: The Rolling Stones. European Tour . In: The complete works of the Rolling Stones 1962–2012. Retrieved June 1, 2012 (English, data listing on the works of the Rolling Stones).
  3. ↑ a b Nico Zentgraf: 1973. Entries 731017A and 731017B . In: The complete works of the Rolling Stones 1962–2012. Retrieved June 1, 2012 .
  4. ↑ a b c The Rolling Stones launch StonesArchive.com and release The Brussels Affair worldwide. (No longer available online.) In: rollingstones.com. November 17, 2011, archived from the original on November 20, 2011 ; accessed on May 21, 2012 (English, Rolling Stones website). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rollingstones.com
  5. ↑ 1973: Memorabilia. In: Rolling Stones Archive. Retrieved on June 2, 2012 (English, picture gallery with, inter alia, pictures of the album covers of The Rolling Stones in concert 1973 , Bedspring Symphony and Brussels Affair 1973 ).
  6. ↑ a b c d 1973: The Brussels Affair. In: Rolling Stones Archive. Accessed on May 21, 2012 (English, information about the album with audio samples, set lists, tour dates, photos, etc.).
  7. ^ A b Tiffany Kaiser: Google Music Officially Launches in the US (No longer available online.) In: Daily Tech. November 16, 2011, archived from the original on April 21, 2012 ; accessed on May 21, 2012 (English, online magazine with the subject of consumer electronics, computers and information technology). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. See also: Brussels '73 Now Available From Google Music. (No longer available online.) In: keithrichards.com. November 16, 2011, archived from the original on May 4, 2012 ; accessed on June 10, 2012 (English, homepage of Keith Richards). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dailytech.com  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.keithrichards.com
  8. ↑ Tim Quirk: Rolling Stones Bootleg Series. In: Magnifier. Google, November 16, 2011, accessed on May 21, 2012 (English, music blog from Google Music and Google Play).
  9. ^ Jamie Rosenberg: Introducing Google Play: All your entertainment, anywhere you go. In: Official Google Blog. March 6, 2012, accessed on May 21, 2012 (announcement of the introduction of Google Play on the Google Blog).
  10. ^ Rolling Stones Archive . Bravado International Group, accessed March 6, 2012.
  11. ↑ a b The Rolling Stones launch StonesArchive.com and release The Brussels Affair worldwide. (No longer available online.) In: rollingstones.com. November 17, 2011, archived from the original on January 6, 2014 ; accessed on July 12, 2012 (English, announcement of the Rolling Stones Archive on the Rolling Stones website). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rollingstones.com
  12. ↑ "In collaboration with Google Music [...] Please Note: This download is not available to customers in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France or Germany. . ”- 'In collaboration with Google Music [...] Note: This download is not available to customers in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France or Germany.' ( Rolling Stones - The Brussels Affair - MP3 Download. In: stonesarchivestore.com. Bravado International Group, accessed on January 6, 2014 (Notes on the download album The Brussels Affair '73 in the online shop of the Stones Archive , the same applies to everyone other Bootleg Series music downloads offered there at this time, January 6, 2014. ). )
  13. ↑ Google Play Music: Germany start in mid-November. (No longer available online.) In: chip.de. October 30, 2012, archived from the original on January 6, 2014 ; accessed on January 6, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chip.de
  14. ↑ Overview. Universal Music Group. In: universalmusic.com. Retrieved March 7, 2012 (company information on Universal Music website).
  15. ↑ "This website [...] is owned and operated by Bravado International Group, Inc." - 'This website [...] is owned and operated by Bravado International Group, Inc.' ( Privacy Policy. In: Rolling Stones Archive. Retrieved May 21, 2012 (link to privacy policy at bottom of page). )
  16. ^ Brussels Affair (Live 1973). In: Google Play. Retrieved on January 6, 2014 (English, Brussels Affair in the Google Play online shop).
  17. ↑ a b Chris M .: "Bedspring Symphony" - The Brussels '73 Story - "Brussels Affair". In: Revelations On The Rolling Stones. Retrieved on June 7, 2012 (English, fan page, comparison of the title of the download album with known bootlegs from the Brussels concerts). See also: Nico Zentgraf: 2011. Entry 111117A . In: The complete works of the Rolling Stones 1962–2012. Retrieved June 1, 2012 .

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