About this product

For the very first time in the history of the "World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band" The Rolling Stones, ABKCO Records and Universal Music Group have joined forces to offer two vinyl box set collections spanning over 40 years of The Rolling Stones' career.

The box sets include 23 original studio albums, two "Big Hits" collections as well as two rare EPs. Released on November 22 worldwide (and November 23 in the U.S.). The Rolling Stones 1964-1969 and The Rolling Stones 1971-2005 Vinyl Box Sets offer the consumer a wealth of great Rolling Stones music, much of which hasn't been available on vinyl for a considerable period of time.

Both sets come with a unique MP3 download voucher which allows access to all tracks from the albums as a download from the award- winning Back To Black website (www.backtoblackvinyl.com) - available outside of the US & Canada.

More about Volume I: 1964- 1969

• Strictly limited edition collectors' box set
• Individually numbered
• Includes 11 re- mastered albums from The Rolling Stones (1964) to Let It Bleed (1969)
• Also includes two exclusive 12" EPs - The Rolling Stones EP (4 tracks cut at 45rpm) and Five By Five EP (5 tracks cut at 45rpm)
• Includes first greatest hits collection – Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass), its sequel – Through The Past Darkly and also rarities album – Metamorphosis
• All titles manufactured with 180 gram heavyweight vinyl

The Volume I Vinyls

1. The Rolling Stones (EP)*, original U.K. release January 10, 1964
2. The Rolling Stones*, original U.K. release April 17, 1964
3. Five By Five (EP)*, original U.K. release August 14, 1964
4. The Rolling Stones No. 2*, original U.K. release January 15, 1965
5. Out Of Our Heads*, original U.K. release September 24, 1965
6. Aftermath, original U.K. release April 15, 1966
7. Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass), original U.K. release November 4, 1966
8. Between The Buttons, original U.K. release January 20, 1967
9. Their Satanic Majesties Request, original U.K. release December 8, 1967
10. Beggars Banquet, original U.K. release December 5, 1968
11. Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2), original U.K. release September 12, 1969
12. Let It Bleed, original U.K. release December 6, 1969
13. Metamorphosis, original U.K. release June 6, 1975
*Denotes recorded in mono

More about the Vinyl Box Sets

The limited edition numbered box sets chronologically kick off with The Rolling Stones 1964-1969 Vinyl Box Set, a collection that encompasses the Stones' early U.K. releases. The set includes nine re-mastered Rolling Stones studio albums, two remastered EPs, plus two "Big Hits" collections. It's the first vinyl reissue in decades for The Rolling Stones (EP), The Rolling Stones, Five by Five (EP), The Rolling Stones No. 2, Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) and Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2).

The first five titles in the set are presented in their original mono format affording, for the first time in years, an opportunity for Stones fans to enjoy re- mastered versions of the tracks 'I Can't Be Satisfied', 'Time Is On My Side' (Version 2) and 'Down the Road Apiece' as originally released. Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) is included with its original octagonal cover and artwork intact. Metamorphosis is also included in the set; the album was first released in 1975 but is wholly comprised of tracks recorded from the early-to-late sixties. The inclusion of the band's original two "Big Hits" collections was mandated by the fact that U.K. album releases in that era most often did not include contemporaneously released hit singles.

The world really was The Rolling Stones' oyster in the seventies, as their escapades made headlines around the world from the French Riviera to Switzerland and via the U.S. and Canada. They performed groundbreaking concerts in arenas and moved effortlessly into open-air stadiums. They stuck their collective tongue out at the British establishment and became citizens of the world.

They set up their own label and made the most of their new-found artistic freedom and, most importantly, they issued a series of definitive studio albums: Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main Street, Goats Head Soup, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll, Black And Blue and Some Girls. They partied at Studio 54, came up with dance- floor hits 'Miss You' and 'Emotional Rescue', and recorded in Paris, Nassau, Jamaica and New York.

The eighties saw the band stretch the envelope further still, working with jazz great Sonny Rollins, film directors Julien Temple and Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and producers Chris Kimsey and Steve Lillywhite on classics such as Emotional Rescue, Tattoo You, Undercover, Dirty Work and Steel Wheels.

Throughout the next two decades they filmed with Scorsese, recorded with Don Was and released further groundbreaking albums - Voodoo Lounge and Bridges To Babylon, right up to 2005's triumphant A Bigger Bang.