The hand-drawn titles across the front were added by Mick Jagger, to Warhol's dismay.

The band's next several albums were distributed through EMI worldwide, while they remained with Warner in North America only.

In addition to the songs recorded during the 1975–1976 tour, the Stones decided to add four tracks taken from performances at Toronto's El Mocambo Club on 4 and 5 March 1977.

The intention had been to play a set of the sort of classic blues and R&B covers that sealed the band's reputation when they performed regularly at the Crawdaddy Club in 1963.

[7] Despite these legal troubles, the shows themselves went well enough, though the versions that appear on album are heavily overdubbed with new guitar tracks and backing vocals by Richards and/or Ronnie Wood.

Jagger and Richards sharply disagreed on the selection of tracks to include on the album.

As he recalls: "I was in Paris, with Marlon, on tour when I got the news that our little son Tara, aged just over two months, had been found dead in his cot.

It refers to a dance Keith Richards and Ron Wood performed backstage where they would be lying on their backs with legs up in the air.