The Rolling Stones, Now!
The Rolling Stones
- First released
- 13 February 1965
- Tracks on this edition
- 12
- Running time
- 36:24
The cover
IORR attributes the nine photographs on The Rolling Stones, Now! to David Bailey and describes gold lettering above them. IORR’s cover history also records the reuse of Andrew Loog Oldham’s No. 2 sleeve notes on the back.
Cover photographs: David Bailey (IORR archive account); Sleeve notes: Andrew Loog Oldham (IORR archive account)
Image via Cover Art Archive / MusicBrainz source release
Artwork source and selected track edition are identified separately.
What critics said
Michael Gallucci calls Now! the Stones’ first essential American album in his Ultimate Classic Rock retrospective, praising tougher, tighter playing and stronger original songs. “Heart of Stone” is his favourite Jagger–Richards contribution. On “Little Red Rooster”, he singles out Brian Jones’s slide guitar and hears an especially convincing response to the American blues the band admired.
Tracklist
US edition · 13 February 1965
Select a song for details
- A1Everybody Needs Somebody to Love3:01
- A2Down Home Girl4:16
- A3You Can’t Catch Me3:40
- A4Heart of Stone2:53
- A5What a Shame3:09
- A6Mona (I Need You Baby)3:38
- B1Down the Road Apiece3:02
- B2Off the Hook2:39
- B3Pain in My Heart2:15
- B4Oh Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin’)2:13
- B5Little Red Rooster3:09
- B6Surprise, Surprise2:30
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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