How 'Love You Live' Mixed the 1975 Tour of the Americas with the El Mocambo Club Show

The Stones’ 1977 live album Love You Live is a bit of a time capsule: sides one through three were pulled from the 1975 Tour of the Americas, capturing the band in full stadium mode with Mick Jagger’s strut and those Keith Richards riffs. The double-LP acts like a travelogue of that trek, including a medley of early hits and a gritty “Sympathy for the Devil” from the tour’s LA Forum stop.

Side four is the outlier—and the reason fans still hunt down original pressings. It was recorded entirely at the El