The Rolling Stones, recorded live at the BBC in 1965, just as they were transitioning from a band playing blues and R&B covers.

Despite a lifelong love of the band, I have to confess that the last new Stones album that captured my interest was Blue & Lonesome, their surprisingly great collection of blues recordings five or six years ago.

It was magical because they went back to their roots and played the music they love – the music that had inspsired them to start a band in the first place, all those years ago.

And because the blues sounds best when it’s performed by musicians who’ve lived the life they sing about. It’s all about authenticity; or at least the illusion of it.

While the Stones haven’t spent much of their lives sharecropping, they were old enough and grizzled enough by 2016 to know of what they sang – rather more than they did in suburban Dartford half a century earlier.

A year or so after that collection came On Air, a collection of the Stones’ sessions for the BBC recorded between 1963 and 1965, when they were still in thrall to the blues and R&B but beginning to find their own voice.

Recorded live at the BBC Studios in Maida Vale, these recordings were broadcast on radio shows like Top Gear, Saturday Club and The Joe Loss Pop Show.

There are many gems, not least of them an instrumental tribute to Chess Records named after their address in Chicago – 2120 South Michigan Avenue – featuring the sparring guitars of Richards and Jones.

So my pick is this, The Spider And The Fly, with Jagger in typically coquettish vocal form: “Sittin’ Drinkin’ Superficially thinkin’ / About the rinsed-out blonde on my left”.

Sixty years on, I wonder how much he’s changed…