Before ‘Dear Doctor’ became a Beggars Banquet favorite, The Rolling Stones recorded this raw Take 1—with darker humor, Nicky Hopkins and a very different feel.
The Rolling Stones’ ‘Dear Doctor’ Take 1: The Lost 1968 Version
The Rolling Stones’ ‘Sway’ (1970): The Alternate Mix You Never Heard
An alternate ‘Sway’ from 1970 offers a different glimpse into the Rolling Stones’ creative process—and raises the question: what else is hiding in the vaults?
The Rolling Stones’ ‘Blues With a Feeling’, the Unreleased Little Walter Cover from 1978
Recorded during the Some Girls sessions, ‘Blues With a Feeling’ finds the Stones digging into Little Walter’s blues—then inexplicably leaving this gritty performance unreleased.
The Rolling Stones’ ‘Cried Out’ (2002): The Song That Became ‘Laugh, I Nearly Died’
Before ‘Laugh, I Nearly Died’, there was ‘Cried Out’—an unreleased 2002 Stones track that reveals how the song took shape behind the scenes.
The Rolling Stones’ ‘Cookin’ Up’: The Unreleased 1982 Rocker
‘Cookin’ Up’ is one of the Rolling Stones’ hidden 1982 rockers, with boogie piano, buried Mick Jagger vocals and enough swagger to make you wonder why it stayed unreleased.
The Rolling Stones’ ‘Alteration Boogie’: Keith Richards’ Funny 1993 Outtake
Keith Richards turned a joke about Charlie Watts’ clothes into ‘Alteration Boogie’, an unreleased 1993 Stones outtake with a surprisingly hilarious backstory.
The Rolling Stones: ‘Some Girls’ Alternate Take: A Raw Glimpse of 1977
The Rolling Stones’ unreleased 1977 ‘Some Girls’ take is looser, funkier and more unpredictable, with Sugar Blue’s harmonica giving this forgotten Paris recording extra bite.
The Rolling Stones’ Unreleased ‘Samba’: A Hidden Track from 1993
The Rolling Stones recorded ‘Samba’ during the 1993 Voodoo Lounge sessions—but this intriguing track never made the album. So what happened to it?
The Rolling Stones and the 1982 Lost Version of ‘She Was Hot’
Before it became the ‘She Was Hot’ everyone knows, The Rolling Stones took the song somewhere unexpected—and the unreleased 1982 version changes the picture completely.
The Rolling Stones’ Lost 1982 Take of Otis Redding’s ‘I’ve Got Dreams to Remember’
The Rolling Stones recorded a surprisingly polished version of Otis Redding’s ‘I’ve Got Dreams to Remember’ in 1982. So why did this soulful performance remain unreleased for decades?
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