Why Rolling Stones disowned their debut ‘live’ album

Got Live If You Want It!

Got Live If You Want It! is an album of mostly live recordings by Rolling Stones. It was released on 3 December 1966 by London Records in the United States.

The hysteria that marred Rolling Stones successful North American concert for their album Aftermath (1966), triggered this idea into the mind of Rolling Stones producer-manager Andrew Loog Oldham.

Initially, an album capturing Rolling Stones live at London's Royal Albert Hall was planned but the crazy hysteria at the Aftermath tour though a success made the producers skeptical.

This resulted in having ten concert recordings from other sources alongside two older studio tracks, overdubbed with crowd noise to give the impression of an entirely live album.

Interestingly, all the tracks were credited on the original LP to the Royal Albert Hall performance.

Inspiration behind Got Live If You Want It!

More interestingly, the title of the album seems to be inspired by the 1957 Slim Harpo blues song "I've Got Love If You Want It" (some even call it a punk on the Slim Harpo’s number).

Anyhow, the immense popularity of Rolling Stones made Got Live If You Want It! Reach the number six position on the American Billboard 200.

Why Rolling Stone rejected Got Live If You Want It!

But Rolling Stones later disowned/rejected the release, cause it wasn’t entirely a ‘live’ album as you read earlier.

So a case of the famous Rolling Stone number “I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' coming in reality.

They say it’s live

But it’s not ‘live’ entirely

The critics noted the poor quality of the audio rightly

Though we all appreciate its historic significance and legacy

Ok so wanna ‘hear’ Got Live If You Want It! for me…