The Rest Of The Best

Single Stones
DECCA BROWSE 1
UK In-store display box set with poster and badge
36x7" Single collection Browser box (3 copies each single)
Catalogue numbers STONE 1 - 12
All in picture sleeves
Date: 1980

Not to be confused with the UK regular release 12-single box set SINGLE STONES DECCA STONE 1-12.

The complete set includes 3 cardboard separaters, a header card, a full color poster and a badge. Also available via mail-order.

The First 8 Studio Albums

DECCA ROLL 1

8-LP set; 192-page book; wraparound card box

Date: 1982

Limited edition set

The Great Years

DECCA/Readers Digest GROL-A11

4-LP boxset; booklet

Date: 1982

Distributed exclusively to subscribers of RD

The Rolling Stones

MOBILE FIDELITY RC-1 (11)

11 LONDON LPs pressed on audiophile vinyl in a wooden box

Exclusive 32-page book containing original sleeve artwork

Included a poster showing the original banned sleeve artwork for Beggars Banquet

Date: 1984

Limited edition set

Cocksucker Blues aka Schoolboy Blues

DECCA/POLYGRAM TELDEC RECORDS  6.30125 FA

Date: 1984 reissue (1970)

Bonus 7" single

No cover

"Wikipedia, Snopes,  and the Rolling Stones FAQ: When the Stones decided to leave Decca Records and start their own label (Rolling Stones Records) in 1970, Decca informed them that their contract obligated them to deliver one more single. The Stones dutifully complied by handing over the unreleasable "Schoolboy Blues," also known as "Cocksucker Blues." (Strangely enough, the song was eventually released by Decca in Germany, as a bonus single included with the 1984 reissue of the four-LP boxed set The Rest of the Best. The set was quickly pulled and re-released without the single)."

This bonus record never came with a sleeve!

Plain cover, plain record label, withdrawn in weeks after the box was put in the shops.

The only officially (!) released record of "Cocksucker Blues" for sure.

Related to:

The Rolling Stones Story Part 2 The Rest Of The Best
(2nd pressings with Bonus 7" had promo sticker in cover)

Box set idea, sleeve-notes, compilation and research: Wolfgang Michels.

"This box contains 4 albums with fifty different recordings from 1963 to 1970. 

These four discs of this carefully edited box-set you'll find all those recordings of The Rolling Stones that did not appear
on the 12 DECCA albums which were originally issued in Germany, singles (A and B-sides) and rarity items.

Note: This box also delivers as "Tell Me" Version 2, (Tell me) How Many More Times, 

a unreleased  recording, into the market!





The "original" bootleg sleeve! Not so many people saw this one!

This was widely available in Camden Market in the 80´s !
I think the bootleggers did "new wave" records at that time (and had the Roy Carr´s Illustrated Book, too!)