R&R Circus

The Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus
ABKCO/DECCA (?)
Date: early 1975
Cover color proofs exists
Cover design: (?)
Illustration: Alan Aldridge


Note: Since December 1974 to March 1975, it was reported several times that DECCA/ABKCO were set to release this album, which was delayed until September 1975, then to 1982, and CD/Video were finally released in 1996.
There´s some few old acetates from the "Rock & Roll Circus", mostly from The Dirty Mac or The Who set, and an unconfirmed Sterling Sound acetate from April 4, 1975 (as "Necrophilia" acetate, still its existence is unconfirmed), one of ABKCO scheduled "RR Circus" date release!
As noticed before by some collectors, the old 1968-1970 IBC acetates usually are "various-artists compilations" of rare demos or live recordings available at the studio for some unknown reason,which later on, somebody carefully mastered and pressed for personal use, and most were the basis of unauthorized pressings of the early 70´s, from The Beatles, Stones, Cream to Jimi Hendrix or Led Zeppelin.
The 10" IBC acetate, pictured below, have two tracks by John´s Dirty Mac ("Yer Blues" and "Jam") and The Who´s "Mini-Opera" (A Quick One) on side 1, and Jimi Hendrix´s "Live at Winterland Arena" on side 2.
The original 7" one-sided EMIdisc acetate includes Yer Blues.

"The Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus" LP acetate features The WHO, JOHN LENNON, JETHRO TULL and TAJ MAHAL. Although this acetate has a release date of 4th April 1975, on STERLING SOUND INC. apparently this concert was never issued on vinyl.

The (unconfirmed) "RR Circus" Sterling Sound acetate track list:

SIDE 1:
1. UNDER THE DOUBLE EAGLE
2.TAJ AMAHAL - CORINA CORINA
3. TAJ MAHAL - AIN'T THAT A WHOLE LOTTA LOVE
4. JETHRO TULL - SONG FOR GEOFFREY
5. DIRTY MACK - MACK-YER BLUES
6. DIRTY MACK - WHOLE LOTTA YOKO

SIDE 2:
1. THE LOVELIEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR
2.THE WHO (TRACK NOT LISTED ON LABEL)
3. ROLLING STONES - JUMPIN' JACK FLASH - PARACHUTE WOMAN 

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