The Rolling Stones announces ‘A Bigger Bang’ live album

Live on Copacabana Beach is remixed, re-edited and remastered in full

The Rolling Stones’ legendary performance at the famed Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on February 8, 2006 was a historic event in rock and roll history. The band and Mercury Studios will release for the first time this complete concert film remixed, re-edited, and remastered. The Rolling Stones — A Bigger Bang: Live On Copacabana Beach will be available on July 9th on multiple formats, including 2 CD/DVD, 2 CD/SD BD, Deluxe 2 CD/2 DVD, 3 LP blue, yellow, and green vinyl, exclusive Sound of Vinyl 3 LP clear vinyl, and digital.

Additionally, Mercury Studios will release an early taste of this set with a five song digital EP, due May 28th featuring “Sympathy For The Devil,” “Wild Horses,” “You Got Me Rocking,” “Happy,” and “Rough Justice.” All the songs are from the Copacabana Beach show, with the exception of “Rough Justice”, which is from the 2005 Salt Lake City concert video available in the Deluxe Edition.

Finally, Mercury Studios will present The Rolling Stones: Rain Fall Down (Live on Copacabana Beach)/Rough Justice (Live In Salt Lake City) — a limited edition 10” picture disc to be released as part of the first Record Store Day Drops on June 12th.

Right from the film’s opening moments, when The Rolling Stones emerge on their own purpose built bridge leading from the Copacabana Palace Hotel, there’s an electric energy that courses through the air, ricocheting between the band and the 1.5 million people in attendance. Aerial shots convey the sprawling enormity of the crowd, watching not only from the beach, but from boats moored at the water’s edge. As Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, and Charlie Watts fire on all pistons from one track to the next, the crowd continues to meet their energy in furious fervor, waving Brazilian and British flags while rocking out in the tropical evening sunset. It was truly a highlight of this tour, which supported the band’s 2005 album Bigger Bang.

Four songs that were not in the original 2007 DVD release The Biggest Bang are featured for the first time on A Bigger Bang: “Tumbling Dice,” “Oh No, Not You Again,” “This Place Is Empty,” and “Sympathy For The Devil.” This concert brilliantly showcases this impactful two hour set, which runs the gamut of The Rolling Stones’ career.

“Not that we’re unused to playing some of the biggest shows in the world, but I must say Rio did take the cake,” said Keith Richards.

“It was amazing,” states Mick Jagger. “It was a really good audience. They know how to enjoy themselves on those occasions.”

The Deluxe 2 CD/2 DVD edition is packaged in a 12 X 12 40-page book, with the Copacabana concert on DVD and 2 CD, along with an exclusive bonus DVD including a November 2005 concert in Salt Lake City, UT, also from the Bigger Bang tour.

2 CD/DVD2 CD/SD BD | Deluxe 2 CD/2 DVD3 LP blue, yellow, and green vinyl

Rio:

1. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
2. It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It)
3. You Got Me Rocking
4. Tumbling Dice
5. Oh No, Not You Again
6. Wild Horses
7. Rain Fall Down
8. Midnight Rambler
9. Night Time Is the Right Time
10. This Place Is Empty
11. Happy
12. Miss You
13. Rough Justice
14. Get Off My Cloud
15. Honky Tonk Women
16. Sympathy For The Devil
17. Start Me Up
18. Brown Sugar
19. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
20. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Salt Lake City [Deluxe Versions Only]:

1. Start Me Up
2. You Got Me Rocking
3. She’s So Cold
4. Tumbling Dice
5. Rain Fall Down
6. It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (but I Like It)
7. Wild Horses
8. All Down the Line
9. Night Time Is the Right Time
10. Slipping Away
11. Infamy
12. Miss You
13. Rough Justice
14. Get Off of My Cloud
15. Honky Tonk Women
16. Sympathy for the Devil
17. Brown Sugar
18. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
19. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
20. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Buddy Iahn
Buddy Iahn

Buddy Iahn founded The Music Universe when he decided to juxtapose his love of web design and music. As a lifelong drummer, he decided to take a hiatus from playing music to report it. The website began as a fun project in 2013 to one of the top independent news sites. Email: info@themusicuniverse.com