Forty Licks

Forty Licks is a double compilation album by The Rolling Stones. A 40-year career-spanning retrospective, Forty Licks is notable for being the first retrospective to combine the band's formative Decca/London era of the 1960s, now licensed by ABKCO Records (on disc one), with their self-owned post-1970 material, distributed at the time by Virgin/EMI but now distributed by ABKCO's own distributor Universal Music Group (on disc two). Four new songs are included on the second disc. Concurrently with the album's release, the Rolling Stones embarked on the successful, year-long international Licks Tour, which would result in Live Licks in 2004. Originally distributed by Virgin Records in 2002, Forty Licks went out of print after Virgin parent...