The 1981 tour consisted, like 1975, of a great set list full of older classic tunes the Stones had never performed live at all ('Let It Bleed') or in the seventies era ('Under My Thumb', 'Let's Spend the Night Together'*, 'Time Is On My Side', 'Down the Road Apiece' and 'Mona'**). They also played a number of tunes never recorded in the studio or played live, such as Eddie Cochrane's 'Twenty Flight Rock', the Miracles 'Going to a Go Go', and (during the 1982 European tour) the Big Bopper's 'Chantilly Lace'.
The rest of the set list was made up of the usual hits, at least half the current 'Tattoo You' album*** (an interesting collection in it's own right in that it is a dog's breakfast of unused tracks dating as far back as 1972), a lot of their 1978 hit album Some Girls, and two tracks from 1980's Emotional Rescue.
* 'Let's Spend the Night Together' was played at the 1976 Knebworth Fair concert and at the 1977 El Mocambo shows.
** 'Everybody Needs Somebody to Love' was played once at the secret Sir Morgan's Cove Club warm up gig in Massachusetts.
*** 'Tops', a revamped Goat's Head Soup outtake, was played at only a couple of dates.
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