''No Security'' is a live album by

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released by Virgin Records in 1998. Recorded over the course of the band's 1997–1998 worldwide Bridges to Babylon Tour, it was the band's eighth official full-length live release. Not wishing to repeat songs from previous live albums ''

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'' (1982), '' Flashpoint'' (1991) and '' Stripped'' (1995), the Rolling Stones for the most part chose songs that had never been on a live release, including four from the band's most-recent studio album '' Bridges to Babylon'' (1997).

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and

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appeared as special guests. The tracks were taken from live performances at the

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(for MTV's ''Live from the 10 Spot''), TWA Dome (St. Louis),

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(Buenos Aires), and Zeppelinfeld (Nuremberg). The album was released in November 1998, and the band thereafter embarked on another tour, the No Security Tour, crossing North America for 34 shows in hockey and basketball arenas. The front cover photo was taken at a show in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, on 11 July 1998. The man was identified as Wolfgang Dusek, an optician from Vienna. The woman is Birgit Lötsch, a tattoo and piercing artist. They were not a couple, just randomly picked out from the crowd, and reportedly got paid 500 dollars each for the picture. ''No Security'' peaked at number 67 on the

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, and at number 34 on the US ''Billboard'' 200. It failed to achieve US

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status, selling more than 300,000 copies. The album was not reissued by UMe when Universal reissued the 1971–2005 back catalog.

Track listing

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted. #" Intro" – 0:50 #" You Got Me Rocking" – 3:26 (Amsterdam Arena, 6 July 1998) #"

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" – 6:22 (MTV 10 Spot 25 October 1997) #"Flip the Switch" – 4:12 (Amsterdam Arena, 1 July 1998) #" Memory Motel" – 6:05 (Amsterdam Arena, 5 July 1998) #" Corrina" (Taj Mahal/Jesse Ed Davis) – 4:17 (TWA Dome, St-Louis, MO, 12 December 1997) #" Saint of Me" – 5:25 (River Plate Stadium Buenos Aires, 4 April 1998) #" Waiting on a Friend" – 5:02 (TWA Dome, St-Louis, MO, 12 December 1997) #" Sister Morphine" (Jagger/Richards/

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) – 6:16 (Amsterdam Arena, 6 July 1998) #" Live with Me" – 3:54 (Amsterdam Arena, 1 July 1998) #" Respectable" – 3:35 (Amsterdam Arena, 5 July 1998) #" I Just Want to Make Love to You" (

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) – 5:19 (Amsterdam Arena 1 July 1998) #"Thief in the Night" (Jagger/Richards/Pierre de Beauport) – 5:37 (Zeppelinfeld Nuremberg 13 June 1998) #" The Last Time" – 4:47 (TWA Dome, St-Louis, MO, 12 December 1997) #" Out of Control" – 7:59 (River Plate Stadium Buenos Aires, 4 April 1998) "I Just Want to Make Love to You" is a bonus track available only on the Japanese edition.

Personnel

The Rolling Stones *

Mick Jagger Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician. He is known as the lead singer and one of the founder members of The Rolling Stones. Jagger has co-written most of the band's songs with lead guitarist Keith Richards; Jagge ...

– lead vocals, harmonica, and guitar *

Keith Richards Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician, songwriter, singer and record producer who is an original member, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones. His songwriting partnership wi ...

– guitar and vocals *

Ronnie Wood Ronald David Wood (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock musician, best known as a member of the Rolling Stones since 1975, and a member of Faces and the Jeff Beck Group. Wood began his career in 1964, playing lead guitar with several Brit ...

– electric and lap slide guitar *

Charlie Watts Charles Robert Watts (2 June 1941 – 24 August 2021) was an English musician who was the drummer of the Rolling Stones from 1963 until his death in 2021. Originally trained as a Graphic designer, graphic artist, Watts developed an interest i ...

– drums Additional musicians *

Darryl Jones Darryl Jones (born December 11, 1961) is an American bassist. He has been recording and touring with the Rolling Stones since 1993. He has also played in bands with Miles Davis and Sting, among others. Career Darryl Jones was born on Decemb ...

– bass guitar, backing vocals * Chuck Leavell – keyboards, backing vocals *Pierre de Beauport –

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on "Thief in the Night" *

Bobby Keys Robert Henry Keys (December 18, 1943 – December 2, 2014) was an American saxophonist who performed as a member of several horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by the Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Harry Nilsson, Delaney ...

– saxophone *Andy Snitzer – saxophone, keyboards *Kent Smith – trumpet *Michael Davis –

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* Bernard Fowler – backing vocals, percussion * Lisa Fischer – backing vocals *

Blondie Chaplin Terrence William "Blondie" Chaplin (born 7 July 1951) is a South African singer and guitarist from Durban, where he played in the band the Flames in the mid to late 1960s. From 1972 to 1973, he was a member of the Beach Boys and contributed ...

– backing vocals, percussion *Leah Wood – backing vocals on "Thief in the Night" *Johnny Starbuck – shaker on "Out of Control" Special guests *

– vocals on "Memory Motel" *

– vocals on "Corinna" *

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– saxophone on "Waiting on a Friend" Recording credits River Plate Stadium Buenos Aires, 4 April 1998 * Engineering – Ed Cherney and David Hewitt at Remote Recording Services

Charts

References

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