Personnel: Keith Richards (vocals, guitar); Mick Jagger (vocals, harp, keyboards); Ronnie Wood (guitar); Bobby Keys (tenor saxophone); Kent Smith (trumpet); Chuck Leavell (keyboards); Darryl Jones (bass guitar); Charlie Watts (drums); Lisa Fisher, Blondie Chaplin, Bernard Fowler (background vocals).

Audio Mixer: Bob Clearmountain.

In 2002, the Rolling Stones launched a major tour to celebrate the band's 40th anniversary and support their career-spanning FORTY LICKS collection. For the Stones and their fans, this marked a return to many long-overlooked live favorites and a chance for the iconic British group to show the younger generations how rock & roll was meant to be played. On this double-disc live set, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (both bordering on age 60 during this tour) lead the band through more than 20 classics with their time-defying energy and showmanship intact.

In addition to a slinky "Brown Sugar" and a triumphant, piano-driven "You Can't Always Get What You Want," the Stones break out a number of tunes not often performed in concert, including a jam-heavy, 10-minute version of "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" and a twangy, rollicking take on "Rocks Off." For a few surprises, Richards takes the lead vocal on Hoagy Carmichael's "The Nearness of You," Sheryl Crow adds her distinctive voice to "Honky Tonk Women," and soul legend Solomon Burke lends his powerful pipes to his classic "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love." A vibrant, dynamic outing, LIVE LICKS reveals the Stones to be in excellent form a full four decades after their first London gigs.

Rolling Stone (p.88) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[A] bright, hard mix that nails the Stones' matured vigor onstage."

Rolling Stone (p.151) - Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "The greatest hits snap and snarl with renewed authority..."