“From The
Vault” is a new series of live concerts from The Rolling Stones archive
which are getting their first official release. “Hampton Coliseum – Live
In 1981” is the first title in this series. The Rolling Stones American
Tour in 1981 was the most successful tour of that year taking a then
record $50 million dollars in ticket sales. The tour was in support of
the critically and commercially successful “Tattoo You” album. There
were fifty dates on the tour which ran from Philadelphia at the end of
September through to Hampton, Virginia on the 18th and 19th of December. The show on December 18th,
which was also Keith Richards’ birthday, was the first ever music
concert to be broadcast on television as a pay-per-view event. The
footage has now been carefully restored and the sound has been newly
mixed by Bob Clearmountain for this first official release of the show.
