Got Live If You Want It! (EP)

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Got Live If You Want It! (capitalized got LIVE if you want it! on the cover) is the third official EP by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1966. A live recording, it was captured during selected dates at Liverpool and Manchester during their British tour in March that year.

Renowned for its raw-sounding quality, got LIVE if you want it! has endured as a legendary live artifact, more for its historical than musical appeal. Reportedly engineer Glyn Johns had hung microphones over the balcony for the recording; however, this is called into question as "I'm Alright" on the Got Live If You Want It! LP (a U.S.-only release) contains the same backing track but with different vocals. This would have been impossible if the recordings were made as described.

got LIVE if you want it! reached #7 in the UK singles chart. Although it was never released in the US, three of its songs were used to fill up the American albums Out of Our Heads and December's Children (And Everybody's) later in 1965.

Unavailable for decades, got LIVE if you want it! was finally reissued on CD in 2004 on the Singles 1963-1965 box set through ABKCO Records.

[edit] Track listing

1. "We Want the Stones" (Nanker Phelge) – 0:13
   • Simply the audience chanting "We want The Stones!"
2. "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" (Solomon Burke/Jerry Wexler/Bert Russell) – 0:36
   • A very abbreviated excerpt of the song
3. "Pain In My Heart" (Naomi Neville) – 2:03
4. "Route 66" (Bobby Troup) – 2:36
   • Later released on the US-only December's Children (And Everybody's)
5. "I'm Moving On" (Hank Snow) – 2:13
   • Later released on the US-only December's Children (And Everybody's)
6. "I'm Alright" (Ellas McDaniel) – 2:22
   • Later released on the US version of Out of Our Heads and on the US only album Got Live If You Want It!, the latter having different vocals.