
contains reprints of its original postcards – but it’s the sound of the LPs that will be the real treat for Stones fans.


Each album in the set ( out Friday) comes housed in a heavyweight replica of its original packaging – Sticky Fingers has a working zipper, Exile on Main St. Showell spent much of last summer and fall literally up to his ears in more than four decades’ worth of Stones recordings, resulting in The Rolling Stones Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016, a hefty new limited-edition box set that contains special 180-gram vinyl pressings of every Stones studio album from 1971’s Sticky Fingers through 2016’s Blue & Lonesome. Nobody’s ever going to do that again, are they?”

“They’ve been at the top of their game for, oh, about 55 years now. “You’ve gotta hand it to the Rolling Stones,” says Abbey Road mastering engineer Miles Showell with a laugh.
