The Rolling Stones, Now!

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The Rolling Stones, Now!
The Rolling Stones studio album

Publication
(s)

February 13, 1965

Label (s) London Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Rock 'n' Roll , Rhythm and Blues

Title (number)

12

running time

35:58

occupation
  • Mick Jagger : vocals, harmonica, percussion, tambourine
  • Brian Jones : electric guitar, slide guitar, harmonica, tambourine, percussion, background vocals

production

Andrew Loog Oldham

Studio (s)

Regent Sounds Studios, London
Chess Studios, Chicago
RCA Studios, Hollywood

chronology
The Rolling Stones No. 2 (1965, UK)
12 × 5 (1964, US)
The Rolling Stones, Now! Out of Our Heads
(1965)

The Rolling Stones, Now! is the third studio album by the Rolling Stones released in the USA . It was released on February 13, 1965 on London Records . With the exception of Mona (I Need You Baby), recorded on January 3, 1964, the songs were composed between June and November 1964.

Album content

The album features seven songs from the band's second album, The Rolling Stones No. 2 , released in the UK on January 15, 1965, and two songs that would appear on the UK version of the Stones' next album, Out of Our Heads , released on September 24, 1965 . The compilation also features the single Little Red Rooster, a No. 1 hit in England.

The Rolling Stones, Now! follows the proven concept of The Rolling Stones , the very successful debut album from 1964; the song material consists of eight rhythm and blues cover versions as well as four original compositions that show the potential, ambitions and the self-confidence of the young songwriting duo Mick Jagger and Keith Richards .

The front of the album cover shows nine black and white portrait photos by British photographer David Bailey , on which the five band members are shown. A cynical statement by band manager Andrew Loog Oldham , printed on the back of the case , caused outrage in the press: Oldham recommends robbing a blind person if there is a lack of money in order to buy the album. The band distanced themselves from Oldham's statement.

The Rolling Stones, Now! is considered a very coherent and stylistically cohesive album and one of the best all-American releases by the band. The album reached number 5 on the American charts, where it could hold for 29 weeks. The American music magazine Rolling Stone introduces The Rolling Stones, Now! # 181 on his list of the 500 best albums of all time .

Track list

page 1

  1. Everybody Needs Somebody to Love ( Bert Russell / Solomon Burke / Jerry Wexler ) - 2:58
    on The Rolling Stones No. 2 published in a two-minute longer version.
  2. Down Home Girl ( Jerry Leiber / Arthur Butler) - 4:12
    Also on The Rolling Stones No. 2 included.
  3. You Can't Catch Me ( Chuck Berry ) - 3:39
    Also on The Rolling Stones No. 2 included.
  4. Heart of Stone (Jagger / Richards) - 2:49
    Released as a single on December 19, 1964 in the US; in England on the following album Out of Our Heads.
  5. What a Shame (Jagger / Richards) - 3:05 Released
    December 19, 1964 as the b-side of the single Heart of Stone . Also on The Rolling Stones No. 2 included.
  6. Mona (I Need You Baby) ( Ellas McDaniel ) - 3:35
    First published on The Rolling Stones , the
    Rolling Stones ' debut album and there on the American version entitled England's Newest Hit Makers, replaced by Not Fade Away.

Page 2

  1. Down the Road Apiece ( Don Raye ) - 2:55
    Also on The Rolling Stones No. 2 included.
  2. Off the Hook (Jagger / Richards) - 2:34 Released on
    November 13, 1964 as the b-side of the single Little Red Rooster . Also on The Rolling Stones No. 2 included.
  3. Pain in My Heart ( Naomi Neville ) - 2:12
    Also on The Rolling Stones No. 2 included.
  4. Oh Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin ') ( Barbara Lynn Ozen ) - 2:08 pm Released
    in England on the following album Out of Our Heads .
  5. Little Red Rooster ( Willie Dixon ) - 3:05
    Released as a single on November 13, 1964
  6. Surprise, Surprise (Jagger / Richards) - 2:31
    Recorded November 1964. First published in England in 1971 as the B-side of the reissued single Street Fighting Man ; this song was released as a single only in the USA in 1968.

Guest musician

Jack Nitzsche plays the Down Home Girl Piano and Pain in My Heart on an electric toy piano, the so-called "Nitzsche phone". Ian Stewart appears as the pianist on Everybody Needs Somebody to Love and What a Shame and also plays the tambourine on several songs.

literature

  • Bill Wyman: Rolling with the Stones . Band biography and documentation. Dorling Kindersley Ltd., London 2002. ISBN 0-7513-4646-2 (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Wyman: Rolling with the Stones , p. 171
  2. ^ Wyman: Rolling with the Stones , p. 164