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| Five by Five | ||||
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| Released | 14 August 1964 | |||
| Recorded | 11 June 1964 | |||
| Studio | Chess, Chicago[1] | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 12:49 | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
| Producer | Andrew Loog Oldham | |||
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Five by Five is the secondEP bythe Rolling Stones and was released in 1964. Captured during a prolific spurt of recording activity atChess Studios inChicago that June,Five by Five was released that August in the UK shortly after their debut album,The Rolling Stones, had appeared. The title ofFive by Five is a play on words—five tracks recorded by a band with five members.
BecauseMick Jagger andKeith Richards were still honing their songwriting skills, only "Empty Heart" and "2120 South Michigan Avenue" were credited to "Nanker Phelge", a pseudonym for band-written compositions. The rest of the EP is composed ofR&B covers from some of their favorite artists.Andrew Loog Oldham producedFive by Five and even contributedliner notes where he lists the band's achievements thus far (and stretches the truth by claiming the Rolling Stones'debut album had spent 30 weeks at No. 1 when it, in fact, was at the top for 12).[citation needed]
The full recording of "2120 South Michigan Avenue", now heard on theremastered12 X 5, was faded early here for lack of time available on a conventional EP in 1964.
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Five by Five reached number one in the UK EP chart,[citation needed] while its five tracks and namesake would form the basis for their secondAmerican album,12 X 5, later in 1964.[1]
In his bookThe Rolling Stones: An Illustrated History, British rock criticRoy Carr wrote that "along with the Beatles'Long Tall Sally four-tracker,5 X 5 is unquestionably the first and last great EP."[1]
Five by Five was reissued onCD in 2004 on theSingles 1963–1965 box set throughABKCO Records. In November 2010, it was made available as part of a limited edition vinyl box set titledThe Rolling Stones 1964-1969, by itself digitally at the same time, and in 2011 as part of the60's UK EP Collection digital compilation.
On 20 April 2013, the EP was reissued on 7-inch vinyl record as a part of Record Store Day 2013.
Side one
Side two
The Rolling Stones
MC5 covered "Empty Heart".[2]George Thorogood and the Destroyers covered "2120 South Michigan Avenue" on thealbum of the same name.
