Rolling Stones Title New CD and World Tour “A Bigger Bang”

The Rolling Stones new CD, “A Bigger Bang,” will be released September 6, 2005, on Virgin Records. Continuing their historic songwriting partnership, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards began the creative process last autumn and were later joined in the recording studio by Charlie Watts and Ron Wood. “A Bigger Bang” features all new songs, and is the first studio album by The Rolling Stones since the 1997 platinum-certified “Bridges to Babylon.” While in the studio recording the album last year, the band came up with the title “A Bigger Bang” reflecting their fascination with the scientific theory about the origin of the universe.

“A Bigger Bang” is an ambitious, wide-ranging collection of hard-hitting, high-powered rock and blues songs. Running a full sixteen tracks, it is the band’s longest new album since 1972’s “Exile on Main Street.” Key cuts include “Streets Of Love,” the first international single; “Rough Justice,” which will be targeted to U.S. rock radio formats; and “Back Of My Hand,” a raw, rough-edged new song in the classic Rolling Stones blues style. Other titles include “It Won’t Take Long,” “Laugh, I Nearly Died” and “Rain Fall Down” as well as two tracks featuring Keith Richards’ lead vocal, “This Place Is Empty,” and “Infamy.”

“A Bigger Bang” was produced by Don Was and The Glimmer Twins. Was previously co-produced the Rolling Stones studio albums “Voodoo Lounge” (1994) and “Bridges to Babylon” (1997) as well as the new songs included in the greatest-hits collection “Forty Licks” (2002). Was also co-produced the live album “Stripped (1995), and last year’s critically hailed double-CD “Live Licks.”

The release of “A Bigger Bang” follows the August 21st tour kickoff at Fenway Park, in Boston. The Rolling Stones will once again bring fans electrifying performances and state-of-the-art stage production. Ticket sales have reached record highs, with fans already purchasing 97% of all tickets currently available for sale.

A new song from “A Bigger Bang,” “Oh No, Not You Again,” was previewed in the band’s surprise live set on the balcony of New York’s Juilliard School in May, at the announcement of the tour. Following the completion of 35 scheduled dates in U.S and Canada, the band will then tour Mexico, South America, the Far East, New Zealand, Australia, and finally Europe, in the summer of 2006.

The Rolling Stones hold the record for the top 2 most-attended North American tours of all time.