YA-YA’S WAS PLANNED AS A DOUBLE ALBUM WITH B.B. KING AND IKE & TINA TURNER

When the Rolling Stones prepared Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!, the plan reached beyond the Stones themselves. 🎙️

At Madison Square Garden on November 27 and 28, 1969, Glyn Johns recorded the concerts from a mobile truck behind the stage. The extraordinary bill included B.B. King and the Ike & Tina Turner Revue opening for the band. 👑🔥

Their performances were not merely warm-up music destined to disappear when the Stones arrived.

Mick Jagger said the proposed live release was originally going to be a double album, with tracks from both opening acts alongside the Rolling Stones’ set. 💿

Then Decca showed little interest.

Jagger recalled the label asking: “Who is B.B. King? Who are these people?” He said Decca simply did not know the acts, and he eventually gave up on carrying the larger project forward.

So when Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! appeared in September 1970, it was a single LP containing ten Rolling Stones performances. B.B. King and Ike & Tina Turner were nowhere on it.

But the tapes remained. 📼

Thirty-nine years later, the album’s 40th-anniversary box set finally placed those opening performances beside the Stones. Its third CD contained five previously unreleased B.B. King tracks and seven by Ike & Tina Turner—including “How Blue Can You Get,” “Why I Sing the Blues,” “Proud Mary” and “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long.” 📦

The double album Jagger described never arrived in 1970. But decades later, listeners could finally hear how much bigger that Madison Square Garden story had been. 🎸

Sometimes a deluxe edition does more than add extras—it lets the original idea back into the room.

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