The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (album) The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (album) The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus is the fifth release of The Rolling Stones music by former manager Allen Klein's ABKCO Records (who gained control of the band's Decca/London material in 1970) after the band's departure from Decca and Klein. Released in 1996, "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus" is a live album that captures the taping of their ill-fated 1968 TV special, which was not broadcast until decades later. Seeking an original way to promote the newly released "Beggars Banquet", The Rolling Stones concocted the idea of recording a
Aftermath (The Rolling Stones album) idea inspired by the Beatles' example on "Rubber Soul". According to American musicologist David Malvinni, "Aftermath" is the culmination of the Rolling Stones' stylistic development dating back to 1964, a "hybrid musical style forged from the band's myriad sources – early rock and roll, the blues, R & B, soul, pop balladry, and folk rock". Along with the band's next album, "Between the Buttons" (1967), it is cited by Malvinni as belonging to "their pop-rock repertoire", featuring a "chordal" range more "varied" and inclusive of minor chords than their blues-based recordings. Margotin and Guesdon went further in saying the band