December’s Children (and Everybody’s)
The Rolling Stones
- First released
- 4 December 1965
- Tracks on this edition
- 12
- Running time
- 29:52
The cover
Gered Mankowitz’s portrait moved from Britain’s Out of Our Heads to America’s December’s Children. In recollections reproduced by IORR, he places the shoot in Ormond Yard, near his London studio.
Cover photography: Gered Mankowitz (IORR archive account)
Image via Cover Art Archive / MusicBrainz source release
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What critics said
Michael Gallucci’s Ultimate Classic Rock retrospective finds December’s Children less cohesive than Now! and Out of Our Heads. He still values this American collection as a picture of the Stones in transition, bringing some strong early songs together while their music moves beyond its blues foundations.
Tracklist
US edition · 4 December 1965
Select a song for details
- A1She Said Yeah1:39
- A2Talkin’ About You2:36
- A3You Better Move On2:43
- A4Look What You’ve Done2:20
- A5The Singer Not the Song2:28
- A6Route 66 (live)2:43
- B1Get Off of My Cloud3:00
- B2I’m Free2:28
- B3As Tears Go By2:48
- B4Gotta Get Away2:12
- B5Blue Turns to Grey2:35
- B6I’m Moving On2:19
Sources & coverage
About these numbers
Concert figures describe 2,181 distinct archive record IDs from 1962-07-12 to 2024-07-21. Separate same-day record IDs remain separate; they have not all been reviewed as unique performed concerts.
1,506 records have stored song entries; 675 do not. Complete-setlist coverage is not established. Missing entries do not establish that a song was not played.
Song observations count distinct record IDs with a matching title after playback entries are excluded. These are documented appearances, not verified full-song performances. Tour groupings can include warm-up dates.
- MusicBrainz — album identities, editions and track programmes
The catalogue import contains core metadata only. Cover artwork and critical responses have separate sources in the sections above. Annotations, genre associations and database ratings remain excluded.
MusicBrainz data licence - setlist.fm — concert history and setlists
Concert dates, venues and setlists from the editor-supplied archive. Every concert page credits setlist.fm and links to its original record. Song observations are calculated by Glimmer Wire from those entries, with playback excluded.
Snapshot: 2026-10-03T21:42:51Z. Original database supplied and factually approved by the editor; normalized and calculated by Glimmer Wire. Counts can change when records or identities are corrected.
Calculation record
Concert records: distinct concert.setlist_id. Country groups: concert.country_code. Stored entries: records with non-playback setlist_song rows. Song appearances: distinct concert_song.setlist_id matched to setlist_song by record ID, position and exact raw title, excluding tape = 1. This does not use a complete-setlist percentage denominator.
Snapshot SHA-256: 7e86a3e2d0670574fd1e8bf42cd9e4dc99d3325db8db1b471707805387b00e5a
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