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1963: Release COME ON / I WANT TO BE LOVED in the UK, the Stones’ first single ever (Decca F11675)
1968: Release of JOHN MAYALL’S BLUESBREAKERS’ 7″ single NO REPLY / SHE’S TOO YOUNG, with Mick Taylor in the band (Decca F 12792)
1970: Charlie does the photo shoot for the cover of the Stones’ next live album GET YER YA-YA’S OUT! Although the two photography sessions for the cover featuring Charlie and a donkey are depicted in the documentary film Gimme Shelter, showing Watts and Mick on a section of the M6 motorway adjacent to Bescot Rail Depot in Birmingham, England, posing with a donkey, the actual cover photo was taken in early February 1970 in London, and does not originate from the 1969 session. Legendary photographer David Bailey took care of the photoshoot, featuring Charlie with guitars and bass drums hanging from the neck of a donkey, inspired by a line in Bob Dylan’s song ‘Visions of Johanna’ (“Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule”). The band would later say “we originally wanted an elephant but settled for a donkey”
June 7-July 5, 1971: The Stones start early sessions for Exile on Main Street at the basement of Nellcote, Keith Richards’ villa in Villefranche-sur-mer, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Unit Keith, about setting up for Exile: “Recording at my place was a necessity. The idea was to find another place to record like a farmhouse in the hills. But they couldn’t find anywhere, so eventually they turned around and looked at me. I looked at Anita and said, Hey, babe, we’re gonna have to handle it. Anita had to organize dinner sometimes for something like 18 people. We redid the basement kitchen into the studio.”
1976: Les Abattoirs, Pavilon De Paris, Paris, France Honky Tonk Women/If You Can’t Rock Me-Get Off Of My Cloud/Hand Of Fate/Hey Negrita/Ain’t Too Proud To Beg/Fool To Cry/Hot Stuff/Star Star/Cherry Oh Baby/Angie/You Gotta Move/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Band introduction/Happy/Tumbling Dice/Nothing From Nothing/Outa Space/Midnight Rambler/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Brown Sugar/ Jumping Jack Flash/Street Fighting Man
1982: Niedersachsenstadion, Hannover, West Germany Under My Thumb/When The Whip Comes Down/Let’s Spend The Night Together Shattered/Neighbours/Black Limousine/Just My Imagination/Twenty Flight Rock/Going To A Go Go/Chantilly Lace/Let Me Go/Time Is On My Side/Beast Of Burden/Let It Bleed/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Band introduction/Little T & A/Tumbling Dice/She’s So Cold/Hang Fire/Miss You/Honky Tonk Women/Brown Sugar/Start Me Up/Jumping Jack Flash/Satisfaction
2014: ‘Pinkpop Festival’, Megaland, Landgraaf, Holland Jumping Jack Flash/You Got Me Rocking/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Tumbling Dice/Angie/Doom And Gloom/Rocks Off/Out Of Control/Honky Tonk Women/Band introduction/You Got The Silver/Can’t Be Seen/Midnight Rambler/Miss You/Gimme Shelter/Start Me Up/Sympathy For The Devil/Brown Sugar/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Satisfaction *With special guests the Dekoor Close Harmony choir on You Can’t Always Get What You Want
