thanks Jeff Harris Behind The Grooves on Tumblr at behindthegrooves.tumblr. You can also follow the blog on Twitter at twitter/jeffh1228 to get your daily dose of music history and fun facts On this day in music history: December 20, 1971 - Hot Rocks 1964 - 1971 by The Rolling Stones is released. Produced by Andrew Loog Oldham, The Rolling Stones, Glyn Johns, and Jimmy Miller, it is recorded at Regent Sound, Olympic Studios in London, Chess Studios in Chicago, IL, RCA Studios in Hollywood, CA and Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL from October 1964 - January 1971. The twenty-two track double LP set is a compilation of the bands greatest hits released during their years on Decca/London Records. It is compiled by the Stones former manager Allen Klein who had duped the band into signing an agreement that frees them from their management contract, but in exchange, Klein ends up with rights to the bands masters and song publishing written and recorded between 1963 and 1970. The set will also include the tracks Brown Sugar and Wild Horses both recorded in 1969, while the band were still under contract to Klein and Decca. The album will go on to become The Rolling Stones biggest selling album in the US, and will spin off a successful sequel titled More Hot Rocks (Big Hits And Fazed Cookies) a year later in December of 1972. In spite of the compilations huge sales in the US and other countries, it will not be released in the UK until May of 1990, peaking at number three on the UK album chart. Hot Rocks will be remastered and reissued in 2002 (along with the rest of the bands catalog) as a hybrid SACD, which are eventually discontinued and replaced with standard redbook CDs. Hot Rocks 1964 - 1971 will peak at number four on the Billboard Top 200, and is certified 12x Platinum in the US by the RIAA
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