Got Live If You Want It! (album)

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Got Live If You Want It! is an album of mostly live recordings by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was released on 4 November 1966 by London Records in the United States. With its release, the label attempted to fill a marketing gap between the Stones' studio albums and capitalise on their popularity in the U.S. market, which was heightened that year by a famously successful North American concert tour supporting their hit album Aftermath (1966). Discouraged by the fan hysteria accompanying the band in concert at the time, their producer-manager Andrew Loog Oldham abandoned the original idea of having the album capture the Stones in a single live performance at London's Royal Albert Hall. Instead, he selected ten concert recordings from other sources alongside two older studio tracks, which were overdubbed with crowd noise to give the impression of an entirely live album – all the tracks were credited on the original LP to the Royal Albert Hall performance. The album takes its...

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