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The Rolling Stones are pleased to announce the release of GRRR! on the 12th November 2012 for the world, excluding North America, and on the 13th November 2012 in North America. Available in five different formats, including a three-CD 50 track version including 50 tracks, and a four-CD super-deluxe version gathering a whopping 80 tracks, the collection tells the fascinating ongoing story of the Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band In The World, from their high octane version of Chuck Berry's "Come On", their first single issued in June 1963, via the thrilling chart-toppers "The Last Time", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", "Get Off Of My Cloud", "Jumping Jack Flash", "Honky Tonk Women" and the perennial juke-box and concert favourites "Brown Sugar", "Tumbling Dice", "Miss You" and "Start Me Up", all the way to the present day with the inclusion of "Gloom And Doom" and "One Last Shot", two new studio recordings recently completed by the group in Paris, France in August 2012. These brand new recordings constitute the first time Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood have all been together in the recording studio since completing the exalted A Bigger Bang album in 2005, and follow on from the critically-acclaimed expanded re-releases of the historic 40th Anniversary live Madison Square Garden concert Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out in November 2009, and of two of their seventies masterworks, Exile on Main St., in May 2010, and Some Girls, in November 2011. All GRRR! formats will feature a striking painting by award-winning American artist Walton Ford, who has created the latest in a long line of iconic artwork that has always been part of the band's DNA. Super Deluxe Edition Box Set 4CD / 80 tracks plus Bonus CD, 7" Vinyl, Hardback book, Poster, 5 postcards in a presentation box READ MORE ALSO AVAILABLE... 12" Vinyl Box Set 5 x 12" Vinyl / 50 tracks in a casebound LP Box READ MORE

3D AUGMENTED REALITY SLEEVE In celebration of the Rolling Stones' incredible journey, an innovative campaign has been launched to reveal their GRRR! Greatest Hits album sleeve using 3D Augmented Reality. Using the free uView app fans can scan the GRRR! sleeve and watch the stunning imagery come to life in 3D animation right before their eyes. To download the free app click here for iOS and here for Android. The campaign will have further exciting updates coming soon.

Chuck Leavell Talks About New Rolling Stones Songs

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Veteran keyboardist Chuck Leavell, who has worked with such big names as the Allman Brothers Band, Eric Clapton and John Mayer, recently spent a week in Paris with old friends. That might not seem like news until you realize that he wasn’t hanging out at the Eiffel Tower, but in a recording studio, and the old friends were the Rolling Stones.
Leavell, who has worked with the Stones since 1982, told the Wall Street Journal that songs he worked on were “uptempo” rockers in the classic Mick Jagger / Keith Richards mode, and that Ron Wood played slide guitar on one of them. “Great hooks. Great energy. Bare bones,” he said, noting that the band only needed a few takes of each.
However, he did not disclose the name of any of the songs, nor would he confirm rumors that the Stones will play four concerts in the fall. That makes sense, given how famously secretive the group is with regard to new projects. But he did say that they also met in New York in April to rehearse, although that’s pretty much been common knowledge.
When not recording or on the road with rock royalty, Leavell runs a tree farm with his wife and is involved with the Mother Nature Network, a website dedicated to environmental causes.

Michael Apted talks about clashing with Mick Jagger over unreleased Stones movie

Michael Apted (pictured at left) and Mick Jagger (pictured at right)

Award-winning director Michael Apted has opened up about what he describes as a "bitter" experience directing a Rolling Stones documentary in 2002 that was never released. Apted says he clashed repeatedly with Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger about how the film would be edited.
According to The Observer, Apted (who is president of the Directors Guild of America) made his remarks about the documentary at the 2012 Edinburgh International TV Festival.
Apted told attendees during a Q&A he did at the event: "The film and showed them a very rough cut and Mick said 'fine, finish it'. So I finished it and then I took it – I'll never forget it – to Las Vegas to show him and he said: 'We can't have this, this is not doing the band any good.' And he hired his hitman in to deal with it."
When Jagger asked Apted to cut 20 minutes out of the 105-minute rough cut, Apted recalled: "I said, 'All right.' So I did it and thought it was horrible. And I sent it back to him and there was silence. Then eventually he came back and said, 'Take another 20 minutes out of it.'" And I said, 'F*ck off.'"
Apted said that even though Jagger later apologized and thanked Apted for his work, Apted admitted that not having the film released left him feeling "bitter" about the experience. However, before the problems started over the editing, Apted said he enjoyed filming the band, and he had no problems working with the other members of the Rolling Stones. Apted filmed the Rolling Stones in Paris, doing rehearsals for the Licks world tour in Toronto, and during the first dates of the tour in Boston.
As for what happened to the movie, the Stones have their own copy but Apted revealed that he does too: "I've still got it. I don't think they've ever released it ... I occasionally show it to people. It was never dubbed or anything so it's a bit of a mess. That was a real disappointment. There are lots of other directors who've done the same things [with the Rolling Stones] and only the blandest films have ever made it through, like the [Martin] Scorsese thing [the 2008 documentary 'Shine a Light'].
"Mine was good because it was very emotional. They gave me a lot of contact, Charlie [Watts] and all of them. It was about their lives. What was great about it in a way was you could see they loved playing together. They were amazing.
"I remember they had this huge arena in New England they were playing and they came on, they were doing a soundcheck. And they started making up this blues song – it was beautiful. And I filmed it. Because their rap is they come out of retirement, make a big tax killing, make a ton of money. But they were really wonderful playing with each other. And I'd never seen a film about that."
In 2003, the Rolling Stones released a four-DVD set titled "Four Flicks," which was a documentary of the Licks world tour.
Apted's film credits include the documentary series that started with "7 Up," as well as the feature films "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader," "The World Is Not Enough," "Gorillas in the Mist"' and "Coal Miner's Daughter."