1. Rolling Stones studio albums: England’s
Newest Hit Makers through Beggars
Banquet, 1964-1968
By: Benedict Gombocz

2. England’s Newest Hit Makers
• Debut album
• Released 30 May 1964
• Recorded at Regent Studios in
London from 3 January to 25
February 1964 and produced by
then-managers Andrew Loog
Oldham and Eric Easton
• Most of its tracks reflect the
band’s love for R&B music, with
only one original Jagger/Richards
composition, “Tell Me (You’re
Coming Back)”
• Reached #11 in the U.S. upon its
release and is to date the only of
the Stones’ American albums not
to rank in top five on Billboard
album charts

3. 12 X 5
• Second American studio album and
follow-up to England’s Newest Hit
Makers
• Released 17 October 1964 following
England’s Newest Hit Maker’s
significant success
• Recorded on 25 February, 12 May, 10-11
and 24-26 June, 2 and 28-29 September
1964, at Chess, Chicago, Illinois, United
States and Regent Sound Studio,
London, United Kingdom, respectively
• Followed its predecessors style of largely
featuring R&B covers, but contains three
compositions from still-developing
Jagger/Richards songwriting team and
two group compositions under
pseudonym “Nanker Phelge”
• Notable for featuring less heard version
of Jerry Ragaboy’s “Time Is On My Side”
as opposed to better-known electric
guitar version

4. The Rolling Stones No. 2
• Second British studio album, released
15 January 1965
• Recorded on 2 February, 12 May, 10-11
and 24-26 June, 2 and 28-29
September, and 8 November 1964, at
Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois,
United States ; RCA Studios,
Hollywood, California, United States;
and Regent Studio, London, United
Kingdom, respectively
• Uses cover shot for predecessor 12 X 5
(minus text) ; its tracklisting would
largely be largely be emulated on
upcoming U.S. release of The Rolling
Stones, Now!
• Spent 10 weeks at #1 early in 1965 and
become one of the year’s biggest
sellers in the UK

5. The Rolling Stones, Now!
• Third American studio album,
released 13 February 1965 by
original American distributor,
London Records
• Contained seven tracks from second
UK album The Rolling Stones No. 2;
recent U.S. top 20 hit “Heart of
Stone” and other songs later
appeared on British edition of next
studio album Out of Our Heads
later in 1965
• Contains a different and shorter
version of “Everybody Needs
Somebody to Love” than the
recording on The Rolling Stones No.
2; latter version was mistakenly
included on 1986 reissue of The
Rolling Stones, Now!

6. Out of Our Heads
• Third British and fourth American
studio album
• Released 30 July 1965 in the U.S.
through London Records and 24
September 1965 in the UK
through Decca Records
• Recorded 2 November 1964-6
September 1965
• British version added songs that
later surfaced in the U.S. on last
studio album (in the U.S. only) of
1965, December’s Children (And
Everybody’s) and others that were
to date not released in the UK [i.e.
“Heart of Stone”]
• Reached #2 in UK charts, behind
only rival the Beatles’ Help!

7. December’s Children (And Everybody’s)
• Fifth American studio album, released
4 December 1965
• Recorded 5-6 September 1965,
excluding “You Better Move On” : 8
August 1963, “Look What You’ve
Done”: 11 June 1964, “Route 66” and
“I’m Moving On”: 5-7 March 1965
• Half of the songs on the album were
written by Jagger and Richards [i.e.
“I’m Free”, “The Singer, Not the
Song”, “As Tears Go By”, “Get Off Of
My Cloud”]
• Reached #4 in the U.S. and went gold.
• Album name came from then band
manager Andrew Loog Oldham;
according to Jagger, it was “Oldham’s
idea of hip, Beat poetry”

8. Aftermath
• Fourth British and sixth
American studio album
• Released 15 April 1966 in the UK
by Decca Records and 20 June
1966 in the U.S. by London
Records; only studio album of
1966
• Recorded 3-8 December 1965
and 6-9 March 1966
• First full-length release by the
band to feature only
Jagger/Richards compositions
• First album to be recorded
entirely in the U.S. at legendary
RCA Studios in Hollywood,
California at 6363 Sunset
Boulevard; first album released
in true stereo

9. Between the Buttons
• Fifth British and seventh American
studio album
• Released 20 January 1967 in the UK
and 11 February 1967 in the U.S. as
follow-up to ambitious Aftermath
• Recorded 3-11 August , 8-26
November, and 13 December 1966 at
RCA studios in Los Angeles and
Olympic Sound Studios in Barnes,
London, respectively
• Seen as beginning of the group’s first
complete departure from their R&B
roots and start of their short foray into
psychedlia
• Proved to become final album
produced by Andrew Loog Oldham,
with whom the band would break in
mid-1967

10. Their Satanic Majesties Request
• Sixth British and eighth American
studio album
• Released 8 December 1967 in the
UK by Decca Records and 9
December 1967 in the U.S. by
London Records
• Recorded 9 February-23 October
1967 at Olympic Studios-Studio A in
London
• Title is play on “Her Britannic
Majesty requests and requires…”
(text appears on inside of British
passport)
• Recording on Their Satanic
Majesties was long and sporadic,
with recording sessions often
delayed by court appearances and
arrests; for the same reasons, the
entire band was infrequently
present in the studio at same time

11. Beggars Banquet
• Seventh studio album, released on 6
December 1968 by Decca Records in
the UK and London Records in the
U.S.
• Marked return to the group’s R&B
roots; generally seen as more primal
than predecessor Their Satanic
Majesties Request
• First album without Andrew Loog
Oldham; Jagger and Richards hired
Jimmy Miller , with whom they would
have a successful partnership until
Miller’s departure in 1973, to produce
the album
• Was final studio album in which Brian
Jones had full involvement; Jones was
arrested twice for marijuana in 1968