Rolling Stones’ Historic Copacabana Beach Show For Multi-Format Release
In conjunction with the band, Mercury Studios is readying the multi-format ‘The Rolling Stones – A Bigger Bang: Live On Copacabana Beach.’
The Rolling Stones’ famous and historic performance at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro in 2006 is released in its entirety for the first time on July 9. In conjunction with the band, Mercury Studios is readying the multi-format The Rolling Stones – A Bigger Bang: Live On Copacabana Beach.
The complete concert film has been remixed, re-edited, and remastered for the new release, and will be available on DVD, SD Blu-ray, DVD+2CD, SD Blu-ray+2CD, 2DVD+2CD Deluxe, 2SD Blu-ray+2CD Deluxe, 180 gram 3LP, limited edition 3LP pressed on 180 gram blue, yellow, and green vinyl and digital.
A preview, five-track digital EP will be released on May 28 featuring “Sympathy For The Devil”, “Wild Horses”, “You Got Me Rocking”, “Happy”, and “Rough Justice.” All are from the Copacabana Beach show apart from “Rough Justice,” which comes from the 2005 Salt Lake City concert video which is part of the Deluxe Edition of the full release.
Mercury Studios will also release a highly desirable, limited edition 10-inch picture disc, “The Rolling Stones: Rain Fall Down (Live on Copacabana Beach) / Rough Justice (Live In Salt Lake City)” as part of the first Record Store Day Drops on June 12. For a list of participating stores, visit recordstoreday.com/Stores.
The Stones’ Copacabana show went down in history as one of the biggest concert audiences in history, estimated at 1.5 million people. The new release captures the incredible chemistry between the band and the gigantic audience on that hot night of February 8, 2006.
The band emerge via their own purpose-built bridge leading from the Copacabana Palace Hotel to the stage, and aerial shots convey the sheer enormity of the crowd, who watched not just from the beach, but from boats moored at the water’s edge. Keith Richards remembers of the event: “Not that we’re unused to playing some of the biggest shows in the world, but I must say Rio did take the cake.” Recalls Mick Jagger: “‘It was amazing. It was a really good audience. They know how to enjoy themselves on those occasions.”
The new formats feature four songs that were not part of the original 2007 DVD release The Biggest Bang: “Tumbling Dice”, “Oh No, Not You Again”, “This Place Is Empty.” and “Sympathy For The Devil.” The Deluxe 2DVD+2CD & 2SD BD+2CD editions are packaged in a 12 X 12 40-page book, with the Copacabana concert on DVD or SD Blu-ray and 2CD, plus an exclusive bonus DVD or SD Blu-ray that includes the November 2005 concert in Salt Lake City, UT, also from the Bigger Bang tour.
The full The Rolling Stones – A Bigger Bang: Live On Copacabana Beach tracklisting is:
RIO
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It)
You Got Me Rocking
Tumbling Dice
Oh No, Not You Again
Wild Horses
Rain Fall Down
Midnight Rambler
Night Time Is the Right Time
This Place Is Empty
Happy
Miss You
Rough Justice
Get Off My Cloud
Honky Tonk Women
Sympathy For The Devil
Start Me Up
Brown Sugar
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
SALT LAKE CITY (Bonus show – deluxe versions only)
Start Me Up
You Got Me Rocking
She’s So Cold
Tumbling Dice
Rain Fall Down
It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (but I Like It)
Wild Horses
All Down the Line
Night Time Is the Right Time
Slipping Away
Infamy
Miss You
Rough Justice
Get Off of My Cloud
Honky Tonk Women
Sympathy for the Devil
Brown Sugar
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
