Editing Let It Bleed (section)

== Release ==
The album was released in the US as an [[LP record]], [[reel-to-reel tape]], [[audio cassette]] and [[8-track cartridge]] in 1969, and as a remastered CD and chrome cassette tape in 1986. In August 2002, it was reissued in a remastered CD and [[Super Audio CD|SACD]] [[digipak]] by [[ABKCO Records]], and once more in 2010 by [[Universal Music Enterprises]] in a Japanese only SHM-SACD version.<ref name=Billboard>{{cite news |last=Walsh |first=Christopher |title=Super audio CDs: The Rolling Stones Remastered |page=27 |newspaper=Billboard |date=24 August 2002}}</ref> A [[monaural|mono]] version was included in the 2016 box-set ''[[The Rolling Stones in Mono]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Jem |last=Aswad |date=9 November 2016 |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7503441/the-rolling-stones-early-catalog-dazzles-on-new-mono-remasters-sneak-peek |title=The Rolling Stones' Early Catalog Dazzles on New Mono Remasters: Sneak Peek |magazine=Billboard |access-date=18 December 2016}}</ref> In September 2019, a remastered 50th anniversary edition of ''Let It Bleed'' was announced for release by ABKCO on November 15.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Aswad |first1=Jem |date=20 September 2019 |title=Exclusive Preview: The Rolling Stones' 50th Anniversary Edition of 'Let It Bleed' |url=https://variety.com/2019/music/news/rolling-stones-let-it-bleed-50th-anniversary-exclusive-1203342975/ |website=Variety |language=en-US |access-date=16 September 2024}}</ref> It comes with two 180g vinyl LPs with the album in both stereo and mono. Bob Ludwig remastered ''Let It Bleed'' for its 50th anniversary reissue.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Womack |first1=Kenneth |date=11 November 2019 |title=The Rolling Stones' "Let It Bleed" at 50: An even darker "Gimme Shelter" emerges |url=https://www.salon.com/2019/11/11/the-rolling-stones-let-it-bleed-50-years-anniversary-reissue/ |website=Salon |language=en-US |access-date=16 September 2024}}</ref>

=== Packaging ===
Jagger asked artist [[M. C. Escher]] to design a cover for the album, but he declined.<ref name="Review: The Amazing World of MC Escher">{{cite web |title=Review: The Amazing World of MC Escher |url= http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/visual/13414713.Review__The_Amazing_World_Of_MC_Escher__Scottish_National_Gallery_of_Modern_Art/ |website=Herald Scotland |date= 28 June 2015 |access-date=21 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="How Mick Jagger Got Dissed By M.C. Escher">{{cite web |last1=Higgins |first1=Chris |title=How Mick Jagger Got Dissed By M.C. Escher |url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/23063/how-mick-jagger-got-dissed-mc-escher |website=Mental Floss |date=21 October 2009 |access-date=21 April 2016}}</ref> [[Robert Brownjohn]] then designed the cover, which displays a surreal sculpture. The image consists of the ''Let It Bleed'' record being played by the tone-arm of an antique [[phonograph]], and a record-changer spindle supporting several items stacked on a plate in place of a stack of records: a film canister labelled ''Stones – Let It Bleed'', a clock dial, a pizza, a bicycle tire and a cake with elaborate icing topped by figurines representing the band. The cake parts of the construction were prepared by then-unknown cookery writer [[Delia Smith]].<ref name="DSCoverFront">{{cite web |title= Delia and The Rolling Stones |url= https://www.deliaonline.com/features/2017/01/delia-and-the-rolling-stones |website=Delia Online |date= 20 January 2017 |access-date=14 December 2017}}</ref> The reverse of the LP sleeve shows the same "record-stack" melange in a state of disarray.<ref name="DSCoverBack">{{cite web |title=Let Them Eat Delia's Cake, or Robert Brownjohn's Let It Bleed |first=Pamela |last=Popeson |website=moma.org |date=12 September 2013 |access-date=14 December 2017 |url= https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2013/09/12/let-them-eat-delias-cake-or-robert-brownjohns-let-it-bleed/}}</ref> The artwork was inspired by the working title of the album, which was ''Automatic Changer''.<ref>Wyman, Bill. 2002. ''Rolling With the Stones''</ref>

The album cover was among the ten chosen by the [[Royal Mail]] for a set of [[Great Britain commemorative stamps 2010–2019#2010|"Classic Album Cover" postage stamps]] issued in January 2010.<ref>{{cite news |title=Royal Mail puts classic albums on to stamps |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2009/nov/21/guidelines-rock-stamp-album-covers |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |location=London |date=21 November 2009 |access-date=14 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hall |first=John |date=7 January 2010 |title=Royal Mail unveil classic album cover stamps |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/royal-mail-unveil-classic-album-cover-stamps-1860738.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/royal-mail-unveil-classic-album-cover-stamps-1860738.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Independent |location=London |language=en-GB |access-date=14 December 2017}}</ref>