
Virgin controlled the Rolling Stones Records catalogue until 2006.
Whereas the standard single format had turned to be the CDSingle worldwide, 7" singles were still produced on a regular basis in the UK, mainly on collectors' demand.
Virgin US only produced
two 7" EPs and one 7" single in picture sleeves [using UK artworks].
'Love Is Strong' [NR-38446] was the first single from the new studio album 'Voodoo Lounge' produced by Don Was. Released as a 7" EP in the US in July 1994, it was coupled with the non-album track 'The Storm' and a remix of the A-side.
The track was promoted via a popular black and white music video directed by David Fincher and showing giant Stones members rambling about New York City. It barely made it into the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the US though [#91].
Its follower 'You Got Me Rocking' was not even released on 7", but on 12" [Y 38468], and 5" CD; it did not do better than its predecessor
in the charts, but its live rendition met success.
In October of that same year [and prior to the UK] was released 'Out Of Tears' [NR-38459], the third single from
the album 'Voodoo Lounge', also under the form of a 7" EP, backed with a remix of the main track and an unreleased blues.
Funnily, mislabeled
copies of this single exist either with A-side or B-side on both sides !
It will take a new studio album and a new worldwide tour to inspire Virgin US its last 7" release with 'Saint Of Me' [NR-38627] in 1998, backed again with a non-album track 'Anyway
You Look At It'.
Its nice artwork was only otherwise issued on 7" on a limited picture disc edition in the UK.