Rolling Stones Announce Rarities-Packed 1999 Live Album and Video
· Ultimate Classic RockThe Rolling Stones have announced their next archival live release. Welcome to Shepherd's Bush documents their surprise, rarities-packed 1999 concert at an 1,800 seat London venue.
The concert will be available on 4K UHD, a Blu-ray + two-CD set, a two-CD limited edition package and on both black and white two LP black vinyl on Dec. 6. You can pre-order it here.
You can see a trailer for Welcome to Shepherd's Bush below.
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The June 8, 1999 show found the band digging deep into their catalog while warming up for two upcoming shows at London's massive Wembley Stadium. "If you want to see the hits, go to the big place down the road," Mick Jagger reportedly told the Shepherd's Bush crowd. Although classics such as "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Tumbling Dice" were played, the set list also included gems such as "All Down the Line," "Some Girls," "I Got the Blues" and Black and Blue's "Melody" - the latter performed for the first time since 1977.
The Rolling Stones, 'Welcome to Shepherd's Bush' Track List
1. "Shattered"
2. "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll"
3. "Respectable"
4. "All Down the Line"
5. "Some Girls"
6. "Melody"
7. "I Got the Blues"
8. "Brand New Car"
9. "Moon is Up"
10. "Saint of Me"
11. "Honky Tonk Women" (with Sheryl Crow)
12. "You Got the Silver"
13. "Before They Make Me Run"
14. "Route 66"
15. "You Got Me Rocking"
16. "Tumbling Dice"
17. "Brown Sugar"
18. "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
35. 'Live at Racket, NYC' (2024)
Released for Record Store Day 2024, as well as on a special edition of the group's 2023 album, Hackney Diamonds, this slight (seven songs) LP comes from a small show the Stones performed in New York City the day before they released their first album of original material in 18 years. More than half of the songs come from the new album, including one with Lady Gaga. But another "Jumpin' Jack Flash" is here, too. For collectors only.
34. 'Sticky Fingers Live' (2015)
The Stones performed their classic 1971 album Sticky Fingers in front of 1,200 privileged Los Angeles fans to promote the expanded reissue of the classic LP. While the entire record was played, it wasn't in order, and - as a later reissue of Sticky Fingers Live titled Sticky Fingers: Live at the Fonda Theater 2015 revealed - other songs were in the set, too, including "Start Me Up" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (yawn). Pointless.
33. 'No Security. San Jose '99 (From the Vault Collection)' (2018)
The No Security Tour from 1999 supported a live album released the previous year, which, in turn, was culled from performances on the recent Bridges to Babylon Tour. On the surface this can seem like a new low for the band; in reality, it's merely pointless self-congratulation with a handful of surprising tracks ("Respectable," "You Got the Silver") among more live versions of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Start Me Up."
32. 'Bridges to Bremen' (2019)
On the Bridges to Babylon Tour, the Stones gave fans a chance to pick one of the songs played at each stop. For their September 1998 show in Bremen, Germany, Black and Blue's "Memory Hotel" was featured. It's one of the few rarities on the full-concert Bridges to Bremen. Otherwise, it's business as usual with a set opening "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," a closing "Brown Sugar" and another "Jumpin' Jack Flash" in between.
31. 'Bridges to Buenos Aires (Live)' (2019)
Two Bridges to Babylon live albums were released within five months of each other in 2019. This one from Buenos Aires in spring 1998 has a slight edge. The Stones played five concerts in the Argentinian city; this was the final show and included an appearance from Bob Dylan on (what else?) "Like a Rolling Stone." Like the later Bremen performance, Bridges to Buenos Aires is filled with familiar Stones live-album tracks.
30. 'A Bigger Bang – Live on Copacabana Beach' (2021)
The Rolling Stones played in front of 1.5 million people in Rio de Janeiro on Feb. 18, 2006 - one of the largest free concerts ever. The audience is certainly into the show, compiled in this two-disc, 20-track set. On tour in support of 2005's A Bigger Bang, their last album of original material for 18 years, the Stones mostly go through the motions - not quite exhausted but getting there. Filled with the usual suspects.
29. 'The Marquee Club Live in 1971 (From the Vault Collection)' (2015)
The set list is similar to the one recorded in Leeds less than two weeks earlier and found on the Deluxe Edition of a Sticky Fingers reissue, also released in 2015. The Marquee Club Live in 1971 sounds a bit ragged - the show was the band's last of a U.K. tour promoting the soon-to-be-released Sticky Fingers. Already, though, the Stones were setting their set lists for decades to come (See: "Satisfaction" and "Brown Sugar").
28. 'Havana Moon' (2016)
Half a million people gathered at a free 2016 concert in Havana, the biggest rock concert ever performed in Cuba. As with many of the Stones' "official bootleg" sets, Havana Moon was released in both audio and video formats. Noted by the band as one of its most historical shows, the two-hour set doesn't move too far from the expected: "Jumpin' Jack Flash" begins the concert, and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" ends it.
27. 'Live at the Wiltern' (2024)
Live Licks, recorded during the same 40th-anniversary tour that also supported the Stones' Forty Licks career-spanning compilation, is the better album, and it was more timely, released just a year after the run was completed. What Live at the Wiltern has going for it is intimacy: The November 2002 show from Los Angeles' Wiltern Theatre was performed in front of less than 2,000 fans. Still, the set doesn't throw any curves.
26. 'Live at the Tokyo Dome (Live 1990)' (2012)
Who needs a 1990 concert recording from the Rolling Stones plugging away their catalog for the zillionth time in Japan? Maybe fans who can't get enough of "Start Me Up," "Miss You," "Honky Tonk Women," "Midnight Rambler," "You Can't Always Get What You Want," "Gimme Shelter," "Brown Sugar," "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," et al. But nobody else.
25. 'Live at Leeds (Live 1982)' (2012)
Recorded during the final stop of the history-making tour in support of the previous year's Tattoo You, Live at Leeds (Live 1982) features a set list similar to other shows from the run, including the one heard in Hampton Coliseum (Live 1981), released 10 months earlier. The band sounds ready for a break. After the 10-minute, set-closing "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," listeners could use one also.
24. 'L.A. Friday (Live 1975)' (2012)
The Rolling Stones were barely trying in 1975, so this show from Los Angeles' Forum - a Sunday performance, not Friday as the album's title erroneously states - includes many of the band's biggest songs in concert that can be heard in superior versions elsewhere. Exile on Main St. is still extensively represented at this point, so that's good; "Honky Tonk Women" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash" are dragged out again, which isn't.
23. 'Light the Fuse (Live 2005)' (2012)
Recorded during 2005's A Bigger Bang Tour, Light the Fuse, at least for most of it, offers a track listing different from most Rolling Stones live albums from over the decades. Rarely heard stage versions of "Live With Me," "19th Nervous Breakdown" and a cover of Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up" fire up the band in front of a small, 1,000-person audience. Then "Brown Sugar" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash" show up. Again.
22. 'Voodoo Lounge Uncut' (2018)
Recorded in Miami during the 1994 Voodoo Lounge Tour, and broadcast live via pay-per-view, Voodoo Lounge Uncut was originally released on video. This expanded version, which includes the entire stadium concert, finds the group in fine but autopilot form. Robert Cray, Sheryl Crow and Bo Diddley help out with the set rarities, but mostly this is the band delivering hits - the mid-'90s version of Stones shows since the '70s.
21. 'Steel Wheels Live' (2020)
Recorded in New Jersey at the end of the North American leg of the career-renewing Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour, this two-and-a-half-hour package comes with the usual period guest stars (Eric Clapton, John Lee Hooker, Axl Rose), a mix of old and new songs ("Tumbling Dice" and "Mixed Emotions," respectively) and the concert-ending triumvirate of "Brown Sugar," "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash."
20. 'Hampton Coliseum (Live 1981)' (2012)
The Stones' tour following the release of 1981's Tattoo You is one of their most popular. Several recordings have been released from the tour, which stretched over two years between America and Europe. Hampton Coliseum (Live 1981) compiles the second-to-last show from the U.S. leg, famously aired as the first live pay-per-view concert. There's no denying the band is in great shape, even if enthusiasm is running low.
19. 'Some Girls: Live in Texas '78' (2011)
A Some Girls-era "official bootleg" finds the band fighting back after years of complacency. It's still a Stones show from the '70s, though, and one recorded at a packed auditorium, so the focus here is giving fans what they want. That means "Honky Tonk Women," "Brown Sugar" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (again) but also then-new cuts "Beast of Burden," "Miss You" and "Shattered." Better than most but there's fatigue.
18. 'Love You Live' (1977)
Culled from the band's soul-draining 1975-76 tour, along with a pair of club shows in Toronto from 1977 (right after Keith Richards' famous bust), Love You Live is a sprawling mess. Nobody could agree on a track listing, the performances are languid at best and the Stones rarely seem to be having a good time onstage. It's no surprise that many of the songs were later overdubbed to make it palatable to fans' ears.
17. 'Still Life' (1982)
The Stones' 1981 tour marked a comeback for the band, which had pretty much been coasting in concert for the past decade. Still Life attempts to document and summarize the run's shows, but with only 10 songs, a predictable track listing (current hit "Start Me Up," "[I Can't Get No] Satisfaction" for the gazillionth time) and no visuals to show what all the excitement was about, it comes off like a cash-grab between albums.
16. 'Got Live If You Want It!' (1966)
You can barely hear the band over the audience's screams, and the sound is the lowest of fidelity. But if there was ever any doubt that the Stones rivaled the Beatles in popularity in the '60s, this early live album, the group's first, proves it. Got Live includes a frenzied mix of originals ("Under My Thumb") and covers ("I've Been Loving You Too Long"). A fitting concert document, before the rot set in.
15. 'Flashpoint' (1991)
Recorded during the Stones' Steel Wheels tour in 1989 and 1990, Flashpoint marked a comeback period for the band, which sounded more animated than it had in years, even during the requisite stadium-sized performances of live-album staples "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." Still, at 76 minutes, Flashpoint sags at times, especially on the two new studio songs tacked on at the end.
14. 'No Security' (1998)
Recorded over seven nights during the band's 1997-98 Bridges to Babylon Tour, No Security at least boasts some additions to the live Stones album catalog (this is their eighth official concert LP). The track listing offers surprises such as "Memory Motel" and "Sister Morphine" - but also a handful of Babylon songs that aren't improved by the stage setting. Guest spots by Taj Mahal and Dave Matthews are unnecessary.
13. 'Stripped' (1995)
Pulled together from various Voodoo Lounge tour dates, Stripped is mostly an unplugged record filled with classic songs (nothing from the forgettable Voodoo Lounge shows up). The reworked versions breathe new life into cuts the Stones rarely played onstage - from Let It Bleed and Exile on Main St. gems to a cover of Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone." An expanded version called Totally Stripped was released in 2016.
12. 'Live Licks' (2004)
The double-album Forty Licks compilation is an excellent overview of the Rolling Stones released to coincide with their 40th anniversary. Leave it to the band to exploit it by going out on the road once again to play its classic songs and then release a live album chronicling the shows. There are no surprises here - just the hits, performed just as you remember them, with miles now behind them.
11. 'Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981' (2012)
With a three-night tour stop outside of Chicago around the corner, the Stones stopped at Buddy Guy's blues club in the city for a shared set with legend Muddy Waters in November 1981. Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman are absent, but the others are here, along with Guy and Junior Wells, playing songs from their earliest days as a group. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood hadn't had this much fun onstage in years.
10. 'The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus' (1996)
Recorded in December 1968 but shelved for almost three decades, Rock and Roll Circus is taken from a star-studded, never-aired TV special. The Who, John Lennon and Jethro Tull make appearances, but the Stones dominate the soundtrack with Beggars Banquet songs and "You Can't Always Get What You Want," foreshadowing the coming year. Still, the Who steals the show with the epic "A Quick One, While He's Away."
9. 'Brussels Affair (Live 1973)' (2011)
One of the Stones' most famous bootlegs, taken from a show in Belgium during their 1973 European tour, captures the band in one of its last great stage stands before years of noticeable weariness settled in. The set list is loaded with familiar songs - "Brown Sugar," "Jumpin' Jack Flash" - but the group exhibits energy that would soon wane. The Brussels Affair "official bootleg" was later included with a Goats Head Soup reissue.
8. 'Licked Live in NYC' (2022)
Another concert album taken from the Licks Tour, this full-concert document of the Jan. 18, 2003, show from Madison Square Garden was originally broadcast on HBO. Sheryl Crow pops in for "Honky Tonk Women," but this is a victory lap for the Stones, in celebration mode for their 40th anniversary. No revelations here, but the band sounds revitalized playing through their four-decade catalog for excited fans.
7. 'Charlie Is My Darling - Ireland 1965' (2014)
A companion to the film documenting the Stones' September 1965 shows in Dublin and Belfast, the music on Charlie Is My Darling translates better than on the screaming-fans mess of 1966's Got Live If You Want It! While the DVD package is recommended, the stand-alone Live 1965: Music From Charlie Is My Darling is a superb snapshot of the period and the mania surrounding the Rolling Stones during the midpoint of the '60s.
6. 'Hyde Park Live' (2013)
Two days after Brian Jones died in 1969, the Rolling Stones played a free show in London's Hyde Park. Forty-four years later they returned to the scene. The initial release of Hyde Park Live hit the streets a little more than a week after the July concerts; it was later reissued as the CD/DVD package, Sweet Summer Sun. There aren't many surprises here - mostly the band doing what it does best with little of the period's stadium excess.
5. 'Shine a Light' (2008)
Maybe it was the small club atmosphere. or maybe it was because Martin Scorsese was filming the show for a concert film. Either way, the Stones make a great showing on this set recorded over two nights in New York in 2006. The concerts steered clear of the band's new album, A Bigger Bang, and instead focused on classics and obscurities. Not even needless Christina Aguilera and Jack White cameos can weigh it down.
4. 'Grrr Live!' (2023)
Recorded a month after the release of the compilation GRRR!, this two-disc set from Newark runs through the Stones' catalog with the same briskness and awe-inspiring list of songs as the career overview that gives the live LP its name. The guests are piled on: the Black Keys, Gary Clark, Jr., Lady Gaga, John Mayer, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Taylor. But the real star is the band celebrating its silver anniversary in fine form.
3. 'On Air' (2017)
Like most British artists in the '60s, the Stones made many appearances on the BBC, pushing original work as well as covering many of their blues heroes. This great set collects 18 songs from 1963-65 as the band works out "Satisfaction" and "The Last Time" for radio audiences. They also introduce fans to classics by Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and others. A portrait of a young band on the verge of greatness.
2. 'Live at the El Mocambo' (2022)
Between the soggy Black and Blue and the career-reviving Some Girls, the Stones played two secret shows at the Toronto club El Mocambo. It takes a few songs before the band warms up, but once it does nobody lets up. Blues covers, old favorites and songs that wouldn't appear on record for a few years all show up here. The intimacy sparks the Stones, who hadn't sounded this loose in years. A handful of songs from the shows appeared on the blah Love You Live. They belong, and thrive, here, in their natural setting.
1. 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert' (1970)
The Stones were the best rock 'n' roll band on the planet when they recorded Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! in 1969. And they were never better onstage. After this, they'd get increasingly more complacent, lazy, greedy and bored. But here, they're completely on fire, tearing through a lean set that's raw, thrilling, dangerous - it's everything you need to know about the Stones at the end of the '60s. There are better live albums out there, but none captures its era more ideally than Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! Not even decades of Rolling Stones live albums have diminished the power of their best concert LP.