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| Released | 30 September 2002 | |||
| Recorded | 10 January 1964 – 7 June 2002 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 155:52 | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  [1] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A−[2] |
| Rolling Stone | [3] |
| Stylus | A+[4] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [5] |
Forty Licks is a double compilation album by the Rolling Stones. A 40-year career-spanning retrospective, Forty Licks is notable for being the first retrospective to combine their formative Decca/London era of the 1960s, now licensed by ABKCO Records (on disc one), with their self-owned post-1970 material, distributed at the time by Virgin/EMI but now distributed by ABKCO's own distributor Universal Music Group (on mostly disc two). Four new songs are included on the second disc. The album was a commercial success, as it reached No. 2 on both UK and US charts. Concurrently with the album's release, the Stones embarked on the successful, year-long international Licks Tour, which would result in the subsequent Live Licks album being released in 2004.
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Review: Forty Licks – Rolling Stones at AllMusic
- ^ Brunner, Rob (4 October 2002). "Music Review: Forty Licks (2002) – The Rolling Stones". Entertainment Weekly. No. 675–676. ISSN 1049-0434. Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
- ^ Sheffield, Rob (8 October 2002). "The Rolling Stones: Forty Licks (Collector's Edition)". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 27 March 2009.
- ^ McElligatt, Colin (1 September 2003). "The Rolling Stones – Forty Licks – Review". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 May 2012.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.