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Just as their friendly rivals The Beatles were announcing their breakup, the Rolling Stones had finally solved their identity crisis. During their formative years with original guitarist Brian Jones & manager Andrew Loog Oldham, the band had struggled and experimented with various musical genres, but weren't always consistently great songwriters. The results could vary between brilliant, decent and just plain mediocre. LET IT BLEED finds the Stones have finally assimilated their blues, country & early rock and roll influences and were now blending them in their own unique and special way. Their mastery is so refined that it is very difficult to decide whether some of these songs contain more of one style than another. Every song here is amazing and there is no mediocrity to be found. This is when the Rolling Stones truly became the band that we know and love today.

Highlights: "Gimme Shelter", "Love In Vain", "Live With Me", "Midnight Rambler", "Monkey Man" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want".