The Rolling Stones unearth four 'lost' recordings from Exile On Main St sessions
They took so many drugs in the 60s and 70s it’s perhaps not surprising they mislaid some of their recordings.
Nearly 40 years after making their legendary album Exile on Main St., the Rolling Stones have found four tracks originally planned for the record.
The songs - which have never been aired and were unknown to Stones aficionados - were discovered after Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards listened again to the original master copies of the sessions for the 1972 rock and roll classic.
The newly-discovered tracks are called Plundered My Soul, Dancing In The Light, Following The River and Pass The Win.
An insider who has heard two of the tracks said: ‘Plunder My Soul is a classic authentic blues riff with an unmistakable Keith lick and abstract lyrics from Mick, while Following The River is a classic ballad in the tradition of Wild Horses.’
Jagger and Richards found the songs when they were asked by their record company, Universal Music Group, to listen to the tapes again because of plans to reissue the record. Jagger and Richards found the songs when they were asked by their record company, Universal Music Group, to listen to the tapes again because of plans to reissue the record.
Initially, the two stars believed they had used all the songs on the album. But when they went back into the basement of the band’s offices in London, they discovered the four songs.
Sir Mick, 66, revealed: ‘I went back in the archives and dug out a load of things. I added some percussion and some vocals. Keith put guitar on one or two.’
Richards, 66, added: ‘I really wanted to leave them pretty much as they were. I didn’t want to interfere with the Bible, you know.
‘They still had that great basement sound.’
The band recorded some of the songs in an improvised studio beneath Nellcote, Richards’ chateau on the French Riviera, as well as in Los Angeles and London-The length of the recording period - from 1968 to 1972 - and the various locations is also believed to be one of the reasons why the tracks disappeared.
Ironically, on its release, the album initially received a lukewarm response from critics, but it still went to number one on both sides of the Atlantic. It is now regarded as a masterpiece.
The Stones are to re-release the album with ten bonus tracks - of which four are the newly discovered songs.
It will come out on May 17 and will coincide with a documentary, Stones In Exile, which has used archive footage to chronicle the making of the record.
Old masters: The songs were discovered after Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards listened again to the original master copies of the recording sessions
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