Significant longplayers from the past

4 September 2025

THE ROLLING STONES one of the greatest rock bands in music history
released their first live album, GET YOUR YA-YA’S OUT! on 4 Sept 1970,
today 55 years ago.

It was recorded at New York’s Madison Square
Garden on 27th & 28th November 1969.

The record starts with an ecstatic announcement:
“Everybody ready? The greatest band in the world…
The Rolling Stones!”

The late great, confrontational journalist Lester Bangs wrote back then in
Rolling Stone Magazine: “The Rolling Stones are most assuredly not in trouble,
and are looking like an even greater force in the years ahead than they have been.
It’s still too soon to tell, but I’m beginning to think Ya-Ya’s just might be the best
album they ever made.

I have no doubt that it’s the best rock concert ever put on record. The Stones, alone
among their generation of groups, are not about to fall by the wayside. And as long
as they continue to thrive this way, the era of true rock and roll music will remain
alive and kicking with them.”

STREAM YA YA’S

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