Hot Rocks 1964–1971

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Hot Rocks 1964-1971 is the first compilation album of Rolling Stones music released by former manager Allen Klein's ABKCO Records (who usurped control of the band's Decca/London material in 1970) after the band's departure from Decca and Klein. Released in late 1971, it proved to be The Rolling Stones' biggest-selling release of their career and an enduring and popular retrospective.

After reportedly having been duped by Klein to unknowingly sign over the recording copyrights to all of their material from 1963 to 1970, The Rolling Stones left Decca and formed their own label, Rolling Stones Records, with a new distributor. They recorded Sticky Fingers throughout 1970, releasing it the following spring. Although Klein - and now ABKCO - no longer had The Rolling Stones as clients, their fruitful catalogue was ripe for the picking and, thus, Hot Rocks 1964-1971 was quickly compiled as a double album greatest hits package.

While the album carries most of the band's biggest hits during their first decade, it does drop a few of them in order to include standout tracks such as "Play With Fire", "Under My Thumb" and "Gimme Shelter" giving listeners a more well-rounded impression of The Rolling Stones' music in this era. Although "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses" are a part of Sticky Fingers, those two songs are co-owned by the band and Allen Klein due to the fact that The Rolling Stones owed Decca one more single in 1970, and the band responded by submitting the unreleasable "Cocksucker Blues".

Ironically, while Hot Rocks 1964-1971 was not an authorized release by The Rolling Stones (nor was any future ABKCO product, for that matter), it has ended up as their highest-selling album, reaching #4 in the U.S. upon its release and now being certified twelve times platinum there. The UK release was delayed for many years, finally coming out in 1990 to coincide with the Urban Jungle Tour, reaching #3.

In August 2002, Hot Rocks 1964-1971 was reissued in a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records.

Track listing

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

Disc one

1. "Time Is on My Side" (Norman Meade) – 2:58
2. "Heart of Stone" – 2:50
3. "Play with Fire" (Nanker Phelge) – 2:13
4. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" – 3:43
5. "As Tears Go By" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richard/Andrew Loog Oldham) – 2:45
6. "Get off of My Cloud" – 2:55
7. "Mother's Little Helper" – 2:45
8. "19th Nervous Breakdown" – 3:56
9. "Paint It, Black" – 3:45
10. "Under My Thumb" – 3:42
11. "Ruby Tuesday" – 3:16
12. "Let's Spend the Night Together" – 3:36

Disc two

1. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" – 3:41
2. "Street Fighting Man" – 3:15
3. "Sympathy for the Devil" – 6:18
4. "Honky Tonk Women" – 3:00
5. "Gimme Shelter" – 4:31
6. "Midnight Rambler (Live)" – 9:13
7. "You Can't Always Get What You Want" – 7:28
8. "Brown Sugar" – 3:49
9. "Wild Horses" – 5:42

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1972 1973 1974 1975 1979 1980 1981 1982 1989 1990	Billboard Pop Albums Billboard Pop Albums Billboard Pop Albums Billboard Pop Albums Billboard Pop Albums Billboard Pop Albums Billboard Pop Albums Billboard Pop Albums The Billboard 200 The Billboard 200	4 95 126 68 156 116 81 86 174 192
1990 1993 1995 1999	UK Top 75 Albums UK Top 75 Albums UK Top 75 Albums UK Top 75 Albums	3 66 41 67