The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
The British debut includes “Mona (I Need You Baby)”.
- First released
- 17 April 1964
- Tracks on this edition
- 12
- Running time
- 33:24
The cover
Andrew Loog Oldham left the band’s name and album title off the British debut’s front, according to the Rolling Stones fan archive IORR. The American England’s Newest Hit Makers used the same portrait with the band’s name and its promotional title added.
Cover concept: 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’s Ultimate Classic Rock retrospective hears a dangerous edge in the debut’s rough blues and R&B performances, even when the playing sounds rushed. He picks “Tell Me” and “I Just Want to Make Love to You” as highlights. His account distinguishes the British album selected here from England’s Newest Hit Makers, whose American running order replaces “Mona” with “Not Fade Away”.
Tracklist
UK edition · 17 April 1964
Select a song for details
- A1Route 662:25
- A2I Just Want to Make Love to You2:21
- A3Honest I Do2:14
- A4Mona (I Need You Baby)3:38
- A5Now I’ve Got a Witness (Like Uncle Phil and Uncle Gene)2:35
- A6Little by Little2:44
- B1I’m a King Bee2:39
- B2Carol2:38
- B3Tell Me (You’re Coming Back)3:53
- B4Can I Get a Witness2:59
- B5You Can Make It If You Try2:07
- B6Walking the Dog3:10
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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