THE ROLLING STONES To Release GRRR! Greatest Hits Album THE ROLLING STONES, ABKCO Music And Records and Universal Music Group
have announced the release of GRRR! greatest hits album on November 12th
for the world excluding North America and on November 13th in North
America.
Available in various different formats – including a three-CD 50
track version featuring 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’ and ‘Honky Tonk Women’ and the perennial juke-box and concert
favorites ‘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.
These brand new recordings constitute the first time Mick Jagger,
Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood have all been together in
the studio since completing A Bigger Bang album in 2005, and follow on
from the cexpanded 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 painting by award-winning American artist Walton Ford.
A campaign has been launched to reveal their GRRR! Greatest Hits album sleeve using 3D Augmented Reality.
During a three week teaser campaign, fans were invited to download the free uView app in preparation for a big announcement.
From today, using the uView app fans can scan the GRRR! sleeve and
watch the stunning imagery come to life in 3D animation right before
their eyes.
The campaign will have further exciting updates coming soon.
The use of one of the most advanced forms of mobile technology
currently around solidifies The Rolling Stones as one of the most
innovative bands in the world and as relevant as they have always been.
The technology has been developed in partnership with Aurasma, the
leaders in image recognition and augmented reality technology.
GRRR! formats are as follows:
50 Track 3CD album – three CD/50 tracks in a digipack with 24 page booklet.
50 Track three CD Deluxe Edition - 3CD/50 tracks in a DVD size box with 36 page hardback book and five postcards.
Super Deluxe Edition Box Set – four CD / 80 tracks plus Bonus CD, 7"
Vinyl, Hardback book, Poster, five postcards in a presentation box.
12” Vinyl Box Set - 5x 12" Vinyl /50 tracks in a casebound LP box.