The Rolling Stones - Singles Collection, The London Years Disc 1

The Rolling Stones - Singles Collection, The London Years Disc 1

Released 15 August 1989
Recorded May 1963 – February 1970
Genre Rock, blues
Length 185:44
Label ABKCO
Producer Andrew Loog Oldham, Eric Easton, The Rolling Stones, Jimmy Miller, and Jack Nitzsche
Compiler Andrew Loog Oldham, with P. D. Rain and Jody Klein

1-1 Come On
Engineer – Roger Savage
Written-By – Chuck Berry
1: 48
1-2 I Want To Be Loved
Written-By – Willie Dixon
1: 51
1-3 I Wanna Be Your Man
Written-By – John Lennon/Paul McCartney*
1: 43
1-4 Stoned
Written-By – Nanker Phelge
2: 07
1-5 Not Fade Away
Engineer – Bill Farley
Maracas – Phil Spector
Written-By – Hardin*, Petty*
1: 48
1-6 Little By Little
Maracas – Phil Spector
Piano – Gene Pitney, Ian Stewart
Written-By – Nanker Phelge, Phil Spector
2: 38
1-7 It's All Over Now
Written-By – Bobby Womack, Shirley Womack
3: 26
1-8 Good Times, Bad Times 2: 31
1-9 Tell Me 2: 59
1-10 I Just Want To Make Love To You
Written-By – Willie Dixon
2: 16
1-11 Time Is On My Side
Written-By – Norman Meade
2: 58
1-12 Congratulations 2: 26
1-13 Little Red Rooster
Written-By – Willie Dixon
3: 03
1-14 Off The Hook 2: 34
1-15 Heart Of Stone
Keyboards – Ian Stewart, Jack Nitzsche
Lead Guitar – Keith Richards
2: 42
1-16 What A Shame 3: 04
1-17 The Last Time 3: 38
1-18 Play With Fire
Bass ["Zoom"] – Phil Spector
Guitar – Keith*
Harpsichord – Jack Nitzsche
Vocals – Mick*
Written-By – Nanker Phelge
2: 10
1-19 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 3: 45
1-20 The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
Written-By – Nanker Phelge
3: 19
1-21 The Spider And The Fly 3: 37
1-22 Get Off Of My Cloud 2: 54
1-23 I'm Free 2: 23
1-24 The Singer Not The Song 2: 25
1-25 As Tears Go By 2: 41
Arranged By – Keith Richards, Mike Leander
Written-By – Andrew Oldham*, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for over six decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the rock era. In the early 1960s, the band pioneered the gritty, rhythmically driven sound that came to define hard rock. Their first stable line-up consisted of vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts. During their early years, Jones was the primary leader. Andrew Loog Oldham became their manager in 1963 and encouraged them to write their own songs. The Jagger–Richards partnership soon became the band's primary songwriting and creative force.

Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the Rolling Stones started out playing covers and were at the forefront of the British Invasion in 1964, becoming identified with the youthful counterculture of the 1960s. They then found greater success with their own material, as "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", "Get Off of My Cloud" (both 1965), and "Paint It Black" (1966) became international number-one hits. Aftermath (1966), their first entirely original album, is often considered to be the most important of their early albums. In 1967, they had the double-sided hit "Ruby Tuesday"/"Let's Spend the Night Together" and experimented with psychedelic rock on Their Satanic Majesties Request. By the end of the 1960s, they had returned to their rhythm and blues-based rock sound, with hit singles "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1968) and "Honky Tonk Women" (1969), and albums Beggars Banquet (1968), featuring "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man", and Let It Bleed (1969), featuring "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and "Gimme Shelter".

Jones left the band shortly before his death in 1969, having been replaced by Mick Taylor. That year they were first introduced on stage as "the greatest rock and roll band in the world". Sticky Fingers (1971), which yielded "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses" and included the first usage of their tongue and lips logo, was their first of eight consecutive number-one studio albums in the US. It was followed by Exile on Main St. (1972), featuring "Tumbling Dice" and "Happy", and Goats Head Soup (1973), featuring "Angie". Taylor left the band at the end of 1974 and was replaced by Ronnie Wood. The band released Some Girls in 1978, featuring "Miss You" and "Beast of Burden", and Tattoo You in 1981, featuring "Start Me Up". Steel Wheels (1989) was widely considered a comeback album and was followed by Voodoo Lounge (1994). Both releases were promoted by large stadium and arena tours, as the Stones continued to be a huge concert attraction; by 2007, they had broken the record for the all-time highest-grossing concert tour three times, and they were the highest-earning live act of 2021. Following Wyman's departure in 1993, the band continued as a four-piece core, with Darryl Jones becoming their regular bassist, and then as a three-piece core following Watts' death in 2021, with Steve Jordan becoming their regular drummer. Hackney Diamonds, the band's first new album of original material in 18 years, was released in October 2023, becoming their fourteenth UK number-one album.

The Rolling Stones' estimated record sales of more than 250 million make them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. They have won three Grammy Awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. Billboard and Rolling Stone have ranked them as one of the greatest artists of all time.