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The Rolling Stones
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The Rolling Stones

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The Rolling Stones
Six printed ...Decca Record Company.. tape contracts, various dates 1st June, 1964 - 22nd February, 1965 each giving Decca Records the right to ..record, re-record and release record(s) made from the masters and/or...tapes, four contracts dated 1st June, 1964 (2), 1st October, 1964 and 1st November, 1964, signed in blue ink by Dick Rowe Richard B.Rowe - Artists' Manager Pop 'singles', each giving the performers' name as The Rolling Stones, two additionally providing their respective song's composer, the first contract for two songs: It's all over now Good times, Bad Times, the second for four songs:If You Need Me Empty Heart 2120 South Michigan Avenue Confessin' The Blues and Around and Around; the third for two songs: Little Red Rooster Off the Hook; the fourth for three songs: Susie 'Q' Grown Up Wrong Under The Broadwalk; one contract, dated 1st January, 1965, signed and initialled in blue ballpoint pen by Eric Easton, the contract for eight songs: Everybody Needs Somebody to Love Down Home Girl You Can't Catch Me Time is on My Side What a Shame Down the Road a Piece I Can't Be Satisfied and Pain in my Heart; another dated 22nd February, 1965, and unsigned, for two songs: The Last Time and Play With Fire; and seven printed song sheets for various hits from 1963 and 1964 including: I Wanna Be Your Man, You'd Better Move On, Not Fade Away (2), Walking The Dog, It's All Over Now and Little Red Rooster (a lot)
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Lot Essay

Dick Rowe, the head of A&R at Decca, whose signature is on four of these recording contracts, is notorious as 'The Man Who Turned Down The Beatles', but perversely spotted the Rolling Stones' potential, signing them to Decca in 1963.

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