Hear Rolling Stones’ 1965 BBC Performance of ‘Satisfaction’

Hear Rolling Stones’ 1965 BBC Performance of ‘Satisfaction’
Listen to the Rolling Stones’ early live version of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” recorded for the BBC in 1965.

A new compilation will spotlight the Rolling Stones‘ many performances for the BBC in the early-to-mid–Sixties. One of the highlights of the album, titled On Air, is a version of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” that the band recorded on September 18th, 1965, for the program Saturday Club – mere months after the single came out.

The track kicks off with Keith Richards’ iconic fuzzy guitar riff and showcases a looser groove than the studio version, as Mick Jagger plays around with crooning and shouting the song’s verses. The song also ends abruptly – the way the band would have to…