Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) is The Rolling Stones’ second official compilation album, released in 1969 shortly following Brian Jones’s departure from the group and subsequent death. The album was released by Decca Records in the UK and London Records/ABKCO Records in the US. In September, Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2), dedicated to Jones, appeared with an octagonal-shaped album cover. The name of the album is a play on a line from the KJV translation of I Corinthians 13: “For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face…”, but it is more likely the Stones intended a homage to Ingmar Bergman and his 1961 film Through a Glass Darkly.
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