Today, The Rolling Stones‘ debut album turned 60. Hats off to Mick Jagger and company for staying together this long against all odds.
This was the album released in Australia and the UK. The USA edition had a different tracklisting, which at the time in the USA was common. They did the same thing to The Beatles.
There were only three originals on the album. ‘Little by Little’ and ‘Now I’ve Got A Witness’ were credited to Nanker Phelge, Phil Spector and ‘Tell Me (You’re Coming Back)’ was the very first song credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
Nanker Phelge was a pseudonym the Stones used when they modified someone elses songs, usually a blues song. It would include Jagger and Richards, Brian Jones and Charlie Watts and producer Andrew Loog Oldham and occasionally keyboard player Ian Stewart. Therefore everyone shared in the royalties. Nanker Phelge was retired in 1965.
The US version retitled ‘England’s Newest Hitmakers’ was released on 29 May 1964. It included a cover of Buddy Holly’s ‘Not Fade Away’ as its opening song and ‘Mona’ was removed from the American edition.
‘The Rolling Stones’ came 13 months after the first Beatles album ‘Please Please Me’ surfaced in March 1963.
The second American album titled ‘12×5’ was released in November 1964. The second UK album, titled ‘The Rolling Stones No 2’, was released 15 January 1965.
Just one year later, on June 6, 1965 the single '(I can't get no) Satisfaction'/'The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man' by the Rolling Stones was released in the United States. In Great Britain it will only be released on August 20.
Richards had woken up in the middle of the night, picked up his guitar and put that immortal riff out of nowhere onto tape, then fell back into a deep sleep without interrupting the recording.
“I remember after ‘Satisfaction’ got to number one–bang bang at the door. Where’s the follow up?”
