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About The Rolling Stones’ The Black Box Lost Compilation

*By Marcelo Sonaglioni

In February 1974, Bill Wyman began assembling a new Rolling Stones compilation album using the Rolling Stones Mobile Recording Unit. This project, titled The Black Box, aimed to include a collection of unreleased studio tracks from the band’s archives. However, despite the initial work put into the album, the idea was eventually set aside and the project ended up being cancelled. Instead, the band put out Metamorphosis, a compilation featuring alternate takes, demos, and previously unreleased material. Bill Wyman’s original picks for the planned record were:

June 1975
Rolling Stones – The Black Box, as originally compiled By Bill Wyman (Decca acetate)

SIDE A
Bright Lights, Big City (Jimmy Reed)
Cops And Robbers (Kent Harris)
I’d Much Rather Be With The Boys (Oldham/Richards)
Little Red Rooster (Willie Dixon)
Down The Road Apiece (Don Raye)
Don’t Lie To Me (Hudson Whittaker) *wrongly entitled Let’s Talk It Over

SIDE B
If You Let Me (Jagger/Richard)
Godzi (instrumental, by Nanker, Phelge)
Panama Powder Room ((instrumental, by Jagger/Richard)
Gold Painted Nails (Jagger/Richard)
Fanny Mae (Bobby Robinson, Clarence Lewis, Buster Brown)
Down In The Bottom (Willie Dixon)

A1: Recorded at IBC Studios, London, March 11, 1963.
A2: Recorded at Camden Theatre, London, March 19, 1964.
A3: Recorded at Demo session, Decca Studios, London, late February, 1965.
A4, A5: Recorded on the British tour, March 5-18, 1965.
A6: Recorded at Chess Studios, Chicago, June 10 or 11, 1964.
B1: Recorded at Olympic Sound Studios, London, November 9-26, 1966.
B2, B3: Recorded at RCA Studios, Hollywood, August 4-12, 1966.
B4: Recorded at Olympic Sound Studios, London, October 16, 21 or 23, 1967.
B5: Recorded at “Saturday Club”, BBC radio show, August 20, 1965.
B6: Recorded at Chess Studios, Chicago, June 11, 1964.

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