According to the Stones historians Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon, the band's notoriety "among the authorities and the establishment seems to have been inversely proportional to their popularity among young people". Coupled with the music's commercial impact, the band's high-energy concerts during their North American tour in June and July proved highly successful with young people while alienating local police, who were tasked with controlling the often rebellious and physically exhausting crowds.
In 1966, the Rolling Stones' popularity increased dramatically with the success of their Aftermath LP and the singles " Paint It, Black" and " Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?". Got Live If You Want It! has been reissued twice by ABKCO Records, in 1986 on CD and in 2002 on SACD. Rare copies of the LP – pressed in limited quantities for the European market – became highly valued by record collectors. Critics of the album note the poor audibility of the band amid the audience noise, but appreciate its historical and documentary value as well as the intense, high-energy quality of the performances. The LP sold well, reaching the number six position on the American Billboard albums chart, although the Stones later disavowed the release. The album takes its title from the Stones' 1965 UK-only live EP, whose own name had been inspired by the 1957 Slim Harpo recording "I've Got Love If You Want It". Instead, he selected ten concert recordings from other sources alongside two older studio tracks, which were overdubbed with crowd noise to give the impression of an entirely live album – all the tracks were credited on the original LP to the Royal Albert Hall performance.
With its release, the label attempted to fill a marketing gap between the Stones' studio albums and capitalise on their popularity in the US market, which was heightened that year by a notoriously successful North American concert tour supporting their hit album Aftermath (1966).ĭiscouraged by the fan hysteria accompanying the band in concert at the time, their producer-manager Andrew Loog Oldham abandoned the original idea of having the album capture the Stones in a single live performance at London's Royal Albert Hall. It was released on 3 December 1966 by London Records in the United States. Got Live If You Want It! is an album of mostly live recordings by the English rock band the Rolling Stones.
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