The 40^th anniversary re-issue of the album features nine additional tracks on top of the eleven original songs, including an alternate version of “Start Me Up” and a cover of R&B group Chi-Lites’ “Trouble’s a’ Comin”. Another bonus disc on the album includes a 26-song live album entitled Still Life: Wembley Stadium 1982, which is a recording of a show from the Tattoo You tour. The album is available on all streaming services, and physical media can be found here.

Most excitingly, the album features a previously unheard track entitled “Come To The Ball”; a swaggering, danceable tune packed with attitude, introduced by a razor-sharp earworm riff by Keith Richards. The song was produced by Jimmy Miller, who had previously worked with The Rolling Stones on albums such as Let It Bleed and Exile on Main St. You can listen to the song at the YouTube link below.

The original Tattoo You is made up almost entirely of outtakes from previous studio albums from the ‘70s. The album also features one of the group’s biggest songs, “Start Me Up”. The album was considered a critical and commercial success for The Rolling Stones, however it was the result of numerous difficulties, namely the band facing touring obligations and personal feuds (particularly between Jagger and Richards) that prevented them from arranging recording sessions for a follow up to their 1980 album Emotional Rescue. A few songs were released as they were, but the majority of the album consisted of half-finished songs that the members would come in to work on when they were available to do so.

In other recent news concerning The Rolling Stones, the band are presently on tour in the United States on the No Filter tour, A North American/European tour which has been ongoing since its commencement in Hamburg on the 9^th of September 2017. As with many tours at this current time, it was originally supposed to reach its end in 2020, however this was complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic. No Filter officially resumed on the 20^th of September 2021, a date which not only marked the band’s first time on tour since August 2019, but their first time out on the road without their late drummer Charlie Watts. More information on the tour can be found here.

The tracklist for the second CD on the re-issue Lost & Found: Rarities is listed below.

1). ‘Living In The Heart Of Love’
2). ‘Fiji Jim’
3). ‘Troubles A’ Comin’ (Chi-Lites)
4). ‘Shame Shame Shame’ (Jimmy Reed)
5). ‘Drift Away’ (Dobie Gray)
6). ‘It’s A Lie’
7). ‘Come To The Ball’
8). ‘Fast Talking Slow Walking’
9). ‘Start Me Up’ (Early Version)

You can watch the lyric video for the song below:

The remastered edition of that album will include nine extra previously unrelated tracks called ‘Lost & Found:Rarities‘. They all have been recorded during the same time as the original album but left out from the release. 

Mick Jagger commented on the LP: “It’s a funny album. It’s not an album where you can say we went into ‘X’ studio, we spent six months and this is the album. It’s just tracks that got recorded any time from 1972 to 1981. It wasn’t really an album. It was all over the place“.

“It doesn’t have a kind of center. … But for all of that sprawl, the material shows you were constantly writing and recording – and you never threw anything away that might have some use later on” he continues.

“Some are cover versions like ‘Troubles A’Comin.’ But we never finished it. It didn’t have proper vocals or finished guitar solos. But I know how to do this now. You find a track that’s got a groove, and if there’s an idea, you run with the idea and make some fun with it, do some extra things. It comes alive a bit more“.

Guitarist Ron Wood added: “that was an era when Mick was into those cover versions. In his own way, he was paying respect to the Chi-Lites and the Temptations. … And it’s been there, that respect for the blues and soul, ever since I can remember hanging out with the Stones“.

A few weeks ago The Rolling Stones shared a video for “Living In The Heart Of Love” dedicated to their late drummer Charlie Watts, who passed away a month ago (24th August). The song is another one of the previously unreleased tracks from the Tattoo You era and will feature in the re-edition of the album.

Touching video for the track shows montage clips of the band from 1981, featuring late Watts mixed with two actresses Marguerite Thiam and Nailia Harzoune enjoying a night with friends, clubbing, dancing and kissing. The clip ends with ‘Charlie is my Darling‘ which was The Rollings Stones’ concert film title from 1966. You can watch it below:

The Rollings Stones kicked off their US tour without Charlie Watts who shared the stage with the group for six decades. Their tribute show started with an empty stage with only a drum beat and images of Watts. Jagger said from the stage: “This is our first ever tour we’ve ever done without him. We’ll miss Charlie so much, on and off the stage“. Watts has been replaced by drummer Steve Jordan, who performed with Richard’s music side project X-Pensive Winos. 

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Jagger added: “Charlie was the heartbeat for the band, and also a very steady personality. He was not to be perturbed. He was a very reliable person, wasn’t a diva — that’s the last thing you want in a drummer“. 

The Rolling Stones continues with their US Autumn Tour. More info about the dates and tickets can be found in the mxdwn article here.