For the first time in three years, the Rolling Stones returned to touring in 1972.

Three years had passed since their last visit to the States – not a particularly long time by today’s standards, but in the early ‘70s, three years was a long time in rock and roll years. In the interim, a lot had changed. With a new guitar player, the band stopped playing most of its older material, concentrating almost exclusively on the catalog of material recorded with Mick Taylor.

The ’72 tour has earned a reputation as one of the most hedonistic events in the band’s history (which is really saying something). A concert film of the tour was made for a short-run theatrical release, entitled “Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones,” but those recordings were never released as audio. The closest we come to it is a show from the European leg of the tour, when the Stones played Brussels in 1973.

The Brussels show aka "The Brussels Affair", was highly anticipated as it was as close as the band could get to France, where there were arrest warrants waiting if they entered the country. Instead, the French fans decamped to Brussels, where the Stones performed what many consider to be the best live recording in their career.

With this show, we cover as many songs from that performance as we can. Enjoy!