THE ROLLING STONES – Black And Blue [Steven Wilson Remix / Super Deluxe 4-CD] (2025) *HQ*

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THE ROLLING STONES are celebrating their 1976 album, ”Black and Blue”, with this comprehensive Super Deluxe 4-CD box set, including a fresh Steven Wilson Remix 2025.
This collection includes a new Steven Wilson stereo mix of the album, unreleased outtakes, and a live recording from their 1976 Earls Court show, complete (21 tracks).
The Earls Court show is previously unreleased officially, with a very good sound quality. The ‘Outtakes and Jams’ disc offer previously unreleased audio, including the high-energy disco stomp of Shirley and Company’s ‘Shame, Shame, Shame’ and jams with guitarists including Jeff Beck, Canned Heat’s Harvey Mandel and Robert A. Johnson. These recordings were done while the Stones were auditioning guitarists, and finally Ronnie Wood get the slot.
”Black and Blue” marked a pivotal moment, as it was the first to feature Ronnie Wood as a full member, contributing his iconic guitar work. Acclaimed at the time by Billboard as being ‘one of their most purely enjoyable albums of the ‘70s’ the reputation of the LP has only grown, with Uncut declaiming ‘Forty-one minutes of super-tight, bone-dry, hi-fi rock and soul, Black and Blue is one of the Stones’ most underrated albums’.

”Black and Blue” captured the band at a moment of transition, figuring out how to move forward without Mick Taylor, the guitarist who left the band late in 1974. Among other things, Taylor grew frustrated with the songwriting stranglehold Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had in the band. They, in turn, viewed him as a hotshot guitarist who added flash and color to the Stones.
So, it makes perfect sense that when they needed to replace him, they auditioned a host of guitarists that fit that description. There was Harvey Mandel, who joined Canned Heat in time for their set at Woodstock in 1969; Wayne Perkins, who was fresh from playing on Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark; Memphis young gun Robert A. Johnson; and Jeff Beck, a fellow veteran of the British blues scene who spent the early 1970s struggling to find his footing in a series of hard-rock combos.
Another guitarist showed up at these sessions: Ronnie Wood…

Disc 1: Steven Wilson Remix 2025
1. Hot Stuff
2. Hand Of Fate
3. Cherry Oh Baby
4. Memory Motel
5. Hey Negrita (Inspiration by Ron Wood)
6. Melody (Inspiration by Billy Preston)
7. Fool To Cry
8. Crazy Mama

Disc 2: Outtakes and Jams
1. I Love Ladies
2. Shame, Shame, Shame
3. Chuck Berry Style Jam (With Harvey Mandel)
4. Blues Jam (With Jeff Beck)
5. Rotterdam Jam (With Jeff Beck and Robert A. Johnson)
6. Freeway Jam (With Jeff Beck)

Disc 3: Live at Earls Court 1976
1. Honky Tonk Women
2. If You Can’t Rock Me/Get Off My Cloud
3. Hand Of Fate
4. Hey Negrita (Inspiration by Ron Wood)
5. Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
6. Fool To Cry
7. Hot Stuff
8. Star Star (Starfucker)
9. You Gotta Move
10. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
11. Band Intro
12. Happy
13. Tumbling Dice
14. Nothing From Nothing
15. Outa-Space

Disc 4: Live at Earls Court 1976
1. Midnight Rambler
2. It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It)
3. Brown Sugar
4. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
5. Street Fighting Man
6. Sympathy For The Devil

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