New Album and DVD! Greatest Hits & Live At Slane DVD!
Release dates, Tracklistings and a special contest for Fans in France!

THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS ANNOUNCE
“GREATEST HITS” CD AND CD/DVD & “LIVE AT SLANE” DVD

SET FOR RELEASE: NOVEMBER 18th (US) NOVEMBER 17 (INTL.)

The Red Hot Chili Peppers, whose twenty-year career has encompassed some of the most influential and innovative music of the modern rock era, have announced the release of their long-awaited GREATEST HITS collection.
Set for a US release November 18th / International release November 17th, the GREATEST HITS album will feature fourteen of the best-known hits, primarily from their Warner Bros. Records tenure. It will also include two new tracks “Fortune Faded,” and “History,” which were recently recorded during the By The Way tour.

Additionally, the collection will be available in a special CD/DVD edition
featuring fifteen videos, including two not previously released in the US (Road Trippin’ and Universally Speaking). The CD/DVD will also include exclusive commentary from band members and video directors; special Making Of documentaries and behind the scene footage of the group’s acclaimed 2000 Californication tour.

The band has also announced the simultaneous release of RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: LIVE AT SLANE, a DVD capturing the band’s legendary stage show, shot in Ireland last August before a crowd of more than 80,000.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers GREATEST HITS album highlights “Higher Ground” from their 1989 album Mother’s Milk, along with “Give It Away,” “Under The Bridge,” “Breaking The Girl” and “Suck My Kiss” from their 1991 Warner Bros. Records debut, Blood Sugar Sex Magik. From 1995’s One Hot Minute comes “My Friends,” while Californication selections include the title track, “Scar Tissue,” “Otherside,” “Parallel Universe” and “Road Trippin’.” Included from last year’s By The Way are the title track and “Universally Speaking.” Also, “Soul To Squeeze,” originally heard on the 1993 soundtrack to Coneheads has been made available for the very first time on a Red Hot Chili Peppers album.
The CD/DVD features videos of “Higher Ground,” “Give It Away,” “Under The Bridge,” “Suck My Kiss,” “Soul To Squeeze,” “My Friends,” “Scar Tissue,” “Otherside,” and “By The Way” as well as “Aeroplane” from One Hot Minute. Other videos on the CD/DVD include “Around The World,” and the title track from Californication along with “The Zephyr Song” and “Can’t Stop” from By The Way. The special edition will also include videos of “Road Trippin’,” and the track “Universally Speaking,” previously unavailable in the US.

The LIVE AT SLANE DVD is comprised of the following in concert selections:
“By The Way, “Scar Tissue,” “Around The World,” “Universally Speaking,” “Parallel Universe,” “Zephyr Song,” “Throw Away Your Television,” “Havana Affair,” “Otherside,” “Purple Stain,” “Don't Forget Me.” “Right On Time,” “Can't Stop,” “Venice Queen,” “Give It Away, “Californication, “Under The Bridge” and “Power of Equality.”

‘Greatest Hits’ Contest in France:
To celebrate the release of the Chili Peppers ‘Greatest Hits’ album, Warner Music France are going to run a contest in which YOU can become a TV star!

Late October they will offer all the fans to come and sing their favorite song in front of a camera.
The best performances (the funniest ones, the most impressive ones,...) will be used for the TV ad - which will have a massive broadcast on French channels !

Exact details on how, where, when to be confirmed in Red Hot Chili Peppers Official Site news soon + watch out for your next edition of the fanclub Rockinfreakamail and Bmail to be the first to know!

(Sources: RHCP Mangement press release / Official Site and Warner Bros France)