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The Rolling Stones - Carol (1964)

1964 Peelenium: Carol

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The first settled line-up consisted of Brian Jones on guitar and harmonica, Ian Stewart on piano, Mick Jagger on lead vocals, harmonica and maracas, Keith Richards on guitar and vocals, Bill Wyman on bass and Charlie Watts (d. 24 Aug. 2021) on drums. Since Wyman's retirement in 1993, the band's full members have been Jagger, Richards, Watts and guitarist Ronnie Wood who joined in 1975, replacing Mick Taylor (who followed Jones). Jones founded and led the band, but Jagger and Richards assumed leadership after becoming the band's primary songwriters … (read more at Wikipedia)

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Peel always had a soft spot for the Stones’ eponymous first LP and in 1997 included it in a list of his all-time Top 20 Albums. A Chuck Berry cover from the record, ‘Carol’, was subsequently selected as lead track for the 1964 Peelenium. The DJ had been living in the United States at the time of the Stones’ breakthrough there and later recalled the invigorating results of their arrival after a “depressing period”:

“Fortunately the Beatles came to our rescue, followed in their train by the Stones. Once again, the young could be sure that their parents would be deeply mortified by and distrustful of the long-haired, unwashed and doubtless oversexed monsters whose pictures were disfiguring their daughters’ bedroom walls.”[1]

In 1966, Peel was a DJ at KMEN in San Bernardino, California. According to Margrave Of The Marshes, he was at the side of the stage at a local Stones’ gig when the excitement threatened to spill out of control:

“During the show, a lad battled his way on to the platform, seized a policeman’s hand gun from its owner/operator’s holster, and fired several shots into the woodwork only a yard or two from Jagger’s nimbly prancing feet. The general din was so great that the band played on, unaware that whole generations of innocent woodworms were dying particularly unpleasant deaths as they romped and stomped the night away.”[2]

The following year, Peel was working at Radio London when Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were imprisoned for possession of drugs, in a case which became a cause célèbre[4]. Peel shared the widespread opinion – echoed even in the columns of The Times – that the sentences handed down were disproportionate and devoted a full show to their music in late June or early July, after the verdict had been given.[3] At the time when Jagger and Richards were appealing (in the end successfully) against their prison sentences, the Stones recorded ‘We Love You’ (with its flipside 'Dandelion'). The soon-to-close pirate station received a preview copy of the single, which Peel played twice during his final Perfumed Garden show, including as the closing track. The DJ would later choose ‘She’s A Rainbow’ from the subsequent ‘Their Satanic Majesties Request’ album for the 1967 Peelenium, while admitting that he was one of the few people to like the poorly received LP.

As host of Top Gear on Radio One, Peel naturally gave airplay to the Stones as the band quickly bounced back with a series of acclaimed albums in the late 1960s and early 1970s, very much in line with the back-to-the-roots trend of the post-psychedelic era.[4] The Stones were at the height of their underground credibility, but this began to fade in the early 1970s when Mick Jagger began to mix with high society rather than the hippies. They continued to sell lots of records, yet by early 1976 Peel was growing uneasy with the unchanging lineup of bands heading rock’s top division:

“Although I have a lot of time for them myself – after all, I grew up with them – I am astounded that such aging combos as the Who, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and the Pink Floyd still dominate the romping and stomping field.”[5]

The results of the inaugural 1976 Festive Fifty – in which the Stones had two entries – appeared to confirm a little-changing classic rock landscape for Peel's listeners. Earlier that year, the DJ had featured the Stones in a 1976 Band Retrospectives series, but he was now moving on and the makeup of his show changed radically under the influence of punk. At the end of 1977, looking back at the year, he would write, “Elton John retired from active service, and the Rolling Stones should have.” Although the band’s 1978 LP ‘Some Girls’ was seen by some as a partial return to form, Peel wondered aloud after playing disco-influenced lead single ‘Miss You’ on his 22 May 1978 show whether the band should have “knocked it on the head after ‘Satisfaction’ – I sometimes think so”.

In the years to come, Peel would limit himself to playing occasional older tracks by the Stones, most commonly from their early years. On 25 September 2001, he was still of the opinion that the band's debut album remained "their best LP".

Festive Fifty Entries[]

Peelenium[]

Sessions[]

Live[]

  • 30 May 1971: live at Leeds University, recorded 1971-03-13
  1. Dead Flowers
  2. Stray Cat Blues
  3. Love In Vain
  4. Midnight Rambler
  5. Bitch
  6. Honky Tonk Woman
  7. Satisfaction
  8. Little Queenie
  9. Brown Sugar
  10. Street Fighting Man
  11. Let It Rock

Other Shows Played[]

1967
1968
  • 19 May 1968: Jumpin' Jack Flash / Child Of The Moon (single) Decca (Peel interviews Mick Jagger & Brian Jones on Top Gear) [6]
  • 26 May 1968: Jumpin' Jack Flash (7" - Jumpin' Jack Flash / Child Of The Moon) Decca
  • 09 June 1968: Interview with Mick Jagger on Top Gear [7]
  • 14 August 1968: 19th Nervous Breakdown
  • 08 September 1968: Street Fighting Man (7") Decca
  • 21 September 1968: Peel interviews Mick Jagger on 'The Voice Of Pop' (BBC radio) [8]
  • 17 November 1968: Interview with Mick Jagger on Top Gear [9]
  • Unknown dates (late in year?): Peel previews tracks from Beggars Banquet. [10]
  • 29 December 1968: Stray Cat Blues (album - Beggars Banquet) Decca LK.4955
1969
1970
  • 25 April 1970: Midnight Rambler (LP - Get Yer Ya-Yas Out) Decca
  • 09 May 1970: Stray Cat Blues (LP – Get Yer Ya-Yahs Out) Decca
  • 23 May 1970: Street Fighting Man (LP – Get Yer Ya-Yas Out) Decca
  • 13 June 1970: Midnight Rambler (LP - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! - The Rolling Stones In Concert) Decca
  • 27 June 1970: Oh Carol (LP - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! - The Rolling Stones In Concert) Decca
  • 12 September 1970: Midnight Rambler (LP – Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! - The Rolling Stones In Concert) Decca
1972
1973
1975
1976
  • 28 January 1976: Little Red Rooster
  • 10 March 1976: Dance Little Sister (LP - It's Only Rock 'N Roll) Rolling Stones
  • 10 March 1976: If You Really Want To Be My Friend (LP - It's Only Rock 'N Roll) Rolling Stones
  • 17 March 1976: tracks from Black And Blue LP [11] Not necessarily accurate as when John played the whole "new" Rolling Stones LP on the 13th he said he'd listened to that day and decided to play the entire LP that night instead of the original plan to play side 1 that night and side 2 the next
  • 13 April 1976: All tracks from the Black And Blue album
  • 14 April 1976: Black And Blue LP (side 2) [12]
  • 22 April 1976: Hey Negrita (album - Black And Blue) Rolling Stones COC 59106
  • Where It's At: Street Fighting Man (LP - Beggars Banquet) London
  • Where It's At: 'Cherry Oh Baby (LP-Black And Blue)' (Rolling Stones)
  • Where It's At: Fool To Cry
  • 13 August 1976: band retrospective, numerous tracks
  • 27 December 1976: Jumping Jack Flash (LP – Through The Past Darkly) Decca FF#39
  • 30 December 1976: Brown Sugar (LP-Made In The Shade) Rolling Stones FF#13
1977
1978
  • 16 May 1978: Miss You (single) EMI
  • 22 May 1978: Miss You (single) EMI (Peel wonders whether the band should have “knocked it on the head after Satisfaction – I sometimes think so.”)
  • 02 June 1978: Tracks from LP 'Some Girls'
  • 05 June 1978: When The Whip Comes Down (LP - Some Girls) Rolling Stones
  • 12 June 1978: When The Whip Comes Down (LP – Some Girls) Rolling Stones (Peel has appeared with on Kaleidoscope (Radio 4) earlier in the evening discussing the new Rolling Stones album with Paul Gambaccini).
  • 20 June 1978: Shattered
  • 05 July 1978: Con Le Mie Lacrime = As Tears Go By (7") Decca F22270 [
  • 03 August 1978: Tell Me (You're Coming Back) (LP - The Rolling Stones) Decca
  • 03 August 1978: Route 66 (LP - The Rolling Stones) Decca
  • 03 August 1978: Little By Little (LP - The Rolling Stones) Decca
  • 03 August 1978: Can I Get A Witness (LP - The Rolling Stones) Decca
  • 18 September 1978: Respectable (7") EMI/Rolling Stones
  • 19 October 1978: '19th Nervous Breakdown (7")' (London)
  • 26 December 1978: Brown Sugar (LP - Sticky Fingers) Rolling Stones (played during look back at 1976 Festive Fifty)
1979
  • 29 January 1979: Everything Is Turning To Gold (7" b-side 'Shattered') Rolling Stones
  • 05 February 1979: Everything Is Turning To Gold (7" b-side 'Shattered') Rolling Stones
  • 29 May 1979: Bitch (album - Time Waits For No-One, originally on Sticky Fingers)
  • 04 June 1979: All Down The Line (LP-Time Waits For No One (Anthology 1971-1977)) Rolling Stones Records ((JP: "Every time the Rolling Stones bring out an LP, they always seem to contrive to manage to get into the newspapers at that time, which obviously helps the sales of the records. And at the moment, as you doubtless have read, the unlovely Bianca Jagger is pursuing the unlovely Mick around the world, trying to get money from him.")
  • 29 October 1979: We Love You (single) Decca (JP: “Nice to hear that again. Before you were born of course. Well, 1967.”)
1980
  • 21 January 1980: Now I've Got A Witness (Like Uncle Phil And Uncle Gene) (album - England's Newest Hit Makers) London
  • 23 January 1980: Route 66 (LP - Rolling Stones) Decca
  • 25 February 1980: I Can't Be Satisfied (LP - No. 2) Decca
  • 26 February 1980: You Can't Catch Me (album - 2 No. 2) Decca
  • 04 March 1980: Off The Hook (LP - No 2) Decca
  • 10 March 1980: Empty Heart (EP - 5 x 5) Decca
  • 12 March 1980: Confessin' The Blues (Five by Five (EP)) Decca
  • 18 March 1980: Around And Around (LP - 12x5) Decca
  • 02 June 1980: 19th Nervous Breakdown (unknown release)
  • 11 June 1980: It's All Over Now (7") Decca F .11934
  • 23 June 1980: Dance (LP - Emotional Rescue) Rolling Stones (Paul Gambaccini sits in)
  • 23 June 1980: Where The Boys Go (LP - Emotional Rescue) Rolling Stones (Paul Gambaccini sits in)
  • 23 June 1980: Down In The Hole (LP - Emotional Rescue) Rolling Stones (Paul Gambaccini sits in)
  • 23 June 1980: Summer Romance (LP - Emotional Rescue) Rolling Stones (Paul Gambaccini sits in)
  • 23 June 1980: Send Her To Me (LP - Emotional Rescue) Rolling Stones (Paul Gambaccini sits in)
  • 24 June 1980: Emotional Rescue (LP - Emotional Rescue) Rolling Stones (Paul Gambaccini sits in)
  • 25 June 1980: Where The Boys Go (LP - Emotional Rescue) Rolling Stones (Paul Gambaccini sits in)
  • 25 June 1980: Let Me Go (LP - Emotional Rescue) Rolling Stones (Paul Gambaccini sits in)
  • 26 June 1980: Dance (LP - Emotional Rescue) Rolling Stones (Paul Gambaccini sits in)
  • 11 December 1980: The Singer Not The Song (b/w 7" - Get Off Of My Cloud) Decca F.12263
1982
1983
1987
1988
1990s
  • 06 January 1991: King Bee
  • 15 December 1991: Not Fade Away (album - Milestones) Decca SKL 5098
  • 03 October 1992: Little Red Rooster
  • 02 April 1993: Have You Seen Your Mother Baby
  • 19 March 1996: Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadows? (1966 single) Decca
  • 09 December 1996: Satisfaction (Non-Peel session from the 60's) (John Peel's Classic Sessions)
  • 07 July 1998 (BFBS): 'Route 66 (LP-The Rolling Stones)' (Decca)
  • 20 February 1999 (BFBS): (JP: "I'm in the house on me own at the moment because my wife and William our son have gone to collect animal feed products: just cat food and chicken food and dog food and that sort of thing from a neighbouring village. It's the only connection we have with our most famous neighbour, Bill Wyman out of the Rolling Stones, formerly of the Rolling Stones. We share an animal feed product place: I think that puts me pretty close to the wacky world of rock-a-boogie.")
  • 29 September 1999: Empty Heart (LP – 12X5) London
  • 27 October 1999: Carol (LP-The Rolling Stones) Decca Peelenium 1964
  • 03 November 1999: She's A Rainbow (LP-Their Satanic Majesties Request) Decca Peelenium 1967 (Peel reveals that he was one of the few people to like the LP)
2000s
Top Of The Pops
Other
KMEN British Pop Top Ten
  • 25 Feb 1966: 19th Nervous Breakdown (4)
  • 04 Mar 1966: 19th Nervous Breakdown (1)
  • 11 Mar 1966: 19th Nervous Breakdown (1)
  • 18 Mar 1966: 19th Nervous Breakdown (1)
  • 25 Mar 1966: 19th Nervous Breakdown (5)
  • 01 Apr 1966: 19th Nervous Breakdown (9)
  • 03 Jun 1966: Paint It Black (6)
  • 10 Jun 1966: Paint It Black (1)
  • 17 Jun 1966: Paint It Black (1)
  • 24 Jun 1966: Paint It Black (3)
  • 01 Jul 1966: Paint It Black (4)
  • 08 Jul 1966: Paint It Black (4)
  • 14 Oct 1966: Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadows (7)
  • 21 Oct 1966: Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadows (3)
  • 28 Oct 1966: Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadows (4)
  • 11 Feb 1967: Let's Spend The Night Together (10)
  • 18 Feb 1967: Let's Spend The Night Together (10)
Keith Richards
Bill Wyman
  • 10 March 1976: A Quarter To Three (LP - Stone Alone) Rolling Stones
  • 10 March 1976: Gimme Just One Chance (LP - Stone Alone) Rolling Stones
  • 10 March 1976: Every Sixty Seconds (LP - Stone Alone) Rolling Stones
  • 13 August 1976: 'White Lightnin' (LP-Monkey Grip)' (Rolling Stones)
  • 13 August 1976: 'Wine & Wimmen (LP-Stone Alone)' (Rolling Stones)

Covered[]

(The list below was compiled only from the Cover Versions page of this site. It features only Rolling Stones originals covered by other artists, not songs covered by the Rolling Stones and also subsequently covered by other artists. Please add more information if known.)

Artist | Track | First Known Play

See Also[]

External Links[]

References[]

  1. ↑ The Listener, 1973-11-22. Reprinted as ’Rock’s In Trouble,’ Olivetti Chronicles (hardback, p 268).
  2. ↑ Hardback edition, p 226. Peel was a DJ at the station from January or February 1966 until February 1967. The KMENtertainer of 22 July 1966 advertises tickets for a Stones show on Sunday July 24th at 2 p.m., at the Swing Auditorium, National Orange Show Grounds, with the Standells, the Syndicate of Sound and the McCoys as support acts. A list of Stones tour dates at the Rolling Stones Database: 1966 site gives only the first of two shows at the Civic Auditorium, Bakersfield, California on 1967-07-24. A firsthand account of these gigs also mentions the previous show at San Bernardino but not the gun incident.
  3. ↑ The exact date is unclear. According to the 1967-07-28 edition of International Times, Peel broadcast a full hour of Stones music on 04 July 1967.[1]. Meanwhile, in his book The London Sound Brian Long says that the Perfumed Garden of 30 June 1967 was given over to records by the band (private email communication). Disc & Music Echo reported in its 8 July 1967 issue (p.14) that Peel had played "two hours of their music last Thursday without any reference to the court result"([2], which would make the date 29, or the early hours of 30 June.
  4. ↑ For example, Peel was apparently able to preview tracks from the band's Beggar's Banquet LP on his show before its release in December 1968 (Michael Heatley, John Peel: A Life In Music, p 64).
  5. ↑ The Listener, 1976-04-22. Republished as ‘Eurovision 2’, Olivetti Chronicles (hardback, p 72).
  6. ↑ Rolling Stones Database: 1968. Recorded 1968-05-15.
  7. ↑ Rolling Stones Database: 1968. Recorded 1968-06-06. Possibly the interview mentioned in "Stones Office - Setting For A Mad Hatter's Tea Party", by Penny Valentine) (Disc & Music Echo, 1968-06-22).[3]
  8. ↑ Rolling Stones Database: 1968. Repeated 23 September 1968.
  9. ↑ Rolling Stones Database: 1968.
  10. ↑ Heatley, p.64.
  11. ↑ The Peel Sessions, Ken Garner (BBC Books), p216.
  12. ↑ The Peel Sessions, Ken Garner (BBC Books), p216.
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