The Rolling Stones, Now!

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The Rolling Stones, Now! is the third American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 13Template:NbspFebruary 1965 by their initial American distributor, London Records.Template:Sfn Although it contains two previously unissued songs and an alternative version, the album mostly consists of songs released earlier in the United Kingdom, as well as the group's recent single in the United States, "Heart of Stone" backed with "What a Shame". Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote four of the songs on the album (including the US single), with the balance composed by American rhythm and blues and rock and roll artists.

Marketing and sales

The album reached number five on the Billboard 200 album chart and was certified "gold" by the Recording Industry Association of America. The liner notes on initial pressings contained producer Andrew Loog Oldham's advice to the record buying public, which was quickly temporarily removed from some subsequent pressings: Template:Quote This quote also appeared on some issues of the UK Rolling Stones No. 2 LP.

In August 2002, The Rolling Stones, Now! was reissued in a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records. This version included stereo mixes of "Heart of Stone", "What a Shame", and "Down the Road Apiece".<ref name=Billboard>Template:Cite news</ref>

Critical reception

Template:Music ratings In a retrospective review, music critic Richie Unterberger gave the album AllMusic's highest rating (5 out of 5 stars). He commented "Now! is almost uniformly strong start-to-finish, the emphasis on some of their blackest material. The covers of "Down Home Girl," Bo Diddley's vibrating "Mona," Otis Redding's "Pain in My Heart," and Barbara Lynn's "Oh Baby" are all among the group's best R&B interpretations."<ref name="allmusic"/>

The Rolling Stone Album Guide also gave the album 5 out of 5 stars, the highest rating for a pre-Aftermath album by the group.<ref name="Album guide"/> It noted "The Rolling Stones, Now! is their first consistently great LP, with the mean 'Heart of Stone,' the funky 'Off the Hook,' and the Leiber-Stoller oldie 'Down Home GirlTemplate:' ".<ref name="Album guide"/> The magazine also ranked it at number 180 on the list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.<ref> Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Now! was one of the first four rock albums purchased by future music critic Robert Christgau.<ref name="xgausez">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> For Paul Gambaccini's 1978 book Critic's Choice: Top 200 Albums, he included it in his top-10 albums submission at number nine.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He also listed it in his "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In commentaries on the album, he has called it "classic",<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> "passionate and urgent",<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and "easily the sharpest of the pre-Aftermath Stones LPs".<ref name="xgausez"/>

Recording sessions

The songs were recorded between 10 June and 8 November 1964 at the Chess Records studio in Chicago, and RCA Records studio in Hollywood, California; except "Mona (I Need You Baby)", 3–4 January 1964, Regent Sound Studios, London.

Personnel

The Rolling Stones

• Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica, tambourine, percussion
• Keith Richards – electric guitar, backing vocals
• Brian Jones – electric and slide guitars, harmonica, backing vocals
• Charlie Watts – drums, percussion
• Bill Wyman – bass guitar, backing vocals

Additional personnel

• Jack Nitzsche – piano (2, 4), "Nitzsche phone" (sound effects on 9)
• Ian Stewart – piano (1, 5, 7)

Charts

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Chart (1965)	Peak position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)<ref name=AUS>Template:Cite book</ref>	2

References

Sources

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External links

• Rolling Stones Are Satisfied with SACD