
When the Rolling Stones released their Forty Licks CD on October 1, 2002,
everyone thought it would go straight to the top of the charts over the follow
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ing week. It almost did. It made it to the number-two spot. The Stones
confirmed that, indeed, you can’t always get what you want. This quint-
essential greatest-hits collection by the Greatest Rock Band of All Time
surrendered the number-one