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Today in Rolling Stones history: June 7

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June 7 has a strange habit of showing up in The Rolling Stones’ history like it owns the place. From their first UK single Come On / I Want To Be Loved in 1963 to chaotic tours and late-night studio basements, the date keeps looping through their story with almost suspicious timing. Even when nothing “important” was supposed to happen, somehow it did. And The Rolling Stones being The Rolling Stones, it usually involved guitars, attitude, and enough mess to become legend later.

June 7, 1963: Release of Come On / I Want To Be Loved in the UK, the Stones’ first single ever (Decca F11675)
The band considered their cover version of Chuck Berry’s Come On a little too restrained, but it was their first step on record—a modest beginning that opened the door to one of rock ’n’ roll’s most remarkable careers.
The B-side left little doubt about where the band’s true loyalties lay. The Stones decided to tackle I Want to Be Loved, written by Willie Dixon (first recorded by Muddy Waters) and rooted in Chicago electric blues, reflecting the sound that had inspired the group from the very beginning.
Read: The Rolling Stones’ First Ever Single ‘Come On’: The Modest Debut That Started It All

June 7, 1968: Release of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers‘ 7″ single No Reply / She’s Too Young (both tracks from the Bare Wires album) with Mick Taylor in the band (Decca F 12792)

June 7, 1970: Charlie does the photo shoot for the cover of the Stones’ next live album Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! – The Rolling Stones In Concert. 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”.
Read: The Rolling Stones: The Day Charlie Watts Shot the Iconic Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! Cover

June 7-July 5, 1971: The Rolling Stones began early recording sessions for Exile on Main St. in the basement of Nellcôte, Keith Richards’ villa in Villefranche-sur-Mer, working with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio parked outside. The makeshift setup quickly turned the space into a dense, late-night creative hub where much of the album’s raw, chaotic energy first took shape.
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.”

June 7, 1976: Les Abattoirs, Pavilon De Paris, Paris, France (The Rolling Stones Tour of Europe ’76)
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/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Street Fighting Man

June 7, 1982: Niedersachsenstadion, Hannover, West Germany (The Rolling Stones European Tour ’82)
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/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Satisfaction

June 7, 2014: Pinkpop Festival, Megaland, Landgraaf, Holland (14 On Fire tour, European leg)
Jumpin’ 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

June 7, 2024: Mercedes Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (Tour ’24 Hackney Diamonds, North American leg)
Start Me Up/It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll (But I Like It)/Let’s Spend the Night Together/Angry/Sweet Virginia/Dead Flowers/Tumbling Dice/Mess It Up/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Band Introduction/Tell Me Straight/Little T & A/Happy/Sympathy for the Devil/Honky Tonk Women/Midnight Rambler/Gimme Shelter/Paint It Black/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
All photos from IORR

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