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It has long been regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time. And now, astonishingly, The Rolling Stones have discovered four ‘lost’ tracks from the recording sessions for their legendary 1972 album Exile On Main St.
The songs – which have never previously been heard or even heard of by Stones' aficionados – were discovered after Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards listened again to the original master copies of the recording sessions for the double album.
The newly discovered tracks are called Plundered My Soul, Dancing In The Light, Following The River and Pass The Win.
An insider - who has heard two of the tracks - said: 'Plunder My Soul is a classic authentic blues riff with an unmistakable Keith lick and abstract lyrics from Mick. While Following The River is a classic ballad in the tradition of Wild Horses.'
Jagger and guitarist Richards found the songs when they were asked by their record company to listen to the master tapes again because of plans to reissue the ground-breaking record. Initially, the two stars believed they had used all the songs on the 1972 double album. But when they went back into the basement of the band’s offices in London, they discovered the lost songs.
Jagger, 66, revealed: ‘I went back in the archives and dug out a load of things. I added some percussion and some vocals. Keith put guitar on one or two.’ The legendary frontman wrote fresh lyrics for Following The River. However, bar that, they kept any revisions to the songs to a minimum.
Richards, 66, added: ‘I really wanted to leave them pretty much as they were. I didn’t want to interfere with the Bible, you know. They still had that great basement sound.’ In all, the band are to re-release the album with 10 unheard recordings – of which four are the newly discovered songs.
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