Live Licks is a 2004 double CD by The Rolling Stones, their ninth official live album.^[1] Coming six years after No Security, it features performances from the 2002–2003 Licks Tour in support of the career-spanning, fortieth anniversary retrospective Forty Licks. The album includes "an entire side of songs never before recorded live",^[4] and features only one song recorded after 1981's Tattoo You ("You Don't Have to Mean It" from Bridges to Babylon).

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Live Licks
Live album by the Rolling Stones
Released	1 November 2004
Recorded	4 November 2002 18 January 2003 11 July 2003 24 August 2003
Genre	Rock
Length	109:19
Label	Virgin
Producer	Don Was, the Glimmer Twins
The Rolling Stones chronology
Singles 1965–1967 (2004) Live Licks (2004) Singles 1968–1971 (2005)

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	[2]
Tom Hull	B+[3]

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The first CD contains "the familiar classics" while the second features "some covers, b-sides and album tracks from the more obscure end of their back catalogue".^[5]

Sheryl Crow appears on "Honky Tonk Women", while Solomon Burke sings on his own "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love", which the Rolling Stones originally covered on The Rolling Stones No. 2 in 1965.

The Rolling Stones released two subtly different versions of cover art for Live Licks. While both feature a woman astride the Rolling Stones logo's tongue, in the British version she has no bikini top.^[6]

Unlike all their previous live albums, Live Licks features virtually none of the band's recent compositions, and includes only one track which was released in the preceding two decades. In all there are nine songs from the 1960s, eight from the 1970s, three from the 1980s (all from Tattoo You), one from the 1997 release Bridges to Babylon, and two previously unreleased covers.

Live Licks peaked at No. 38 in the UK Albums Chart,^[7] and No. 50 in the US,^[8] becoming a gold record on 9 December 2004, according to the RIAA.^[ʌ3]

The BBC suggested that "even for cynics it demonstrates how potent they remain as a live act, despite not frightening the horses as much these days".^[9] It concluded that, "[like] Bowie, the Stones may no longer be churning out hits but they still know how to mount a spectacle, as this release amply proves."

David Fricke wrote that "Live Licks is the Stones’ first live album since Ya-Ya’s to earn a spot next to my best soundboard and broadcast boots. One good reason: a bright, hard mix that nails the Stones’ matured vigor onstage".^[10]

The Rolling Stones

• Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica, guitar on "When the Whip Comes Down", percussion on "Can't You Hear Me Knocking", keyboards on "Worried About You"
• Keith Richards – guitars, backing vocals on "Honky Tonk Women", lead vocals on "Happy", "The Nearness of You" and "You Don't Have to Mean It"
• Ron Wood – guitars, piano on "You Don't Have To Mean It"^[11]
• Charlie Watts – drums

Additional musicians

• Darryl Jones – bass guitar
• Chuck Leavell – keyboards, backing vocals^[12]
• Bernard Fowler – backing vocals, percussion, keyboards on "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"
• Lisa Fischer – backing vocals, percussion on "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "Can't You Hear Me Knocking," and Gimme Shelter
• Blondie Chaplin – backing vocals, percussion, acoustic guitar on "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", electric guitar on "You Don't Have To Mean It"
• Bobby Keys – saxophone
• Andy Snitzer – saxophone, keyboards
• Michael Davis – trombone
• Kent Smith – trumpet^[11]

Special guest musicians

• Solomon Burke – duet on "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"
• Sheryl Crow – duet on "Honky Tonk Women"^[11]