Black and Blue

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Black and Blue
The Rolling Stones studio album
Publication (s)	April 20, 1976
Label (s)	Europe: WEA Records USA: Atlantic Records
Format (s)	CD , LP
Genre (s)	skirt
Title (number)	8th
running time	41:11
occupation	Mick Jagger Keith Richards Ron Wood Bill Wyman Charlie Watts
Studio (s)	7th to 15th December 1974, January 22nd to February 9th, March 25th to April 4th, October 19 to 31, December 3 to 16, 1975, January 18 to February 1976 in Munich , Rotterdam , Montreux and New York City
chronology Metamorphosis (1975) Black and Blue Love You Live (1977)

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Black and Blue is the thirteenth in the UK released studio album of the Rolling Stones . The album was released on April 20, 1976. In Europe, it was released on WEA Records .

success

The album reached number 2 on the UK charts. In the USA, the release took place via Atlantic Records and took first place in the charts for four weeks. Most of the songs were recorded in 1975 at Musicland Studios in Munich.

title

The playful album title Black and Blue - in German: "Black and blue (beaten)" - is supposed to refer to the influence of black music on the LP: "Black" for black music and "Blue" for the typical Afro-American blue notes .

music

The song selection on Black and Blue is varied and multifaceted. You can hear funk , blues , rock , jazz and reggae influences. Because of these influences, Black and Blue is known as the “blackest” album of the Stones.

The Stones tested several guitarists during the recording of this album to find a successor for Mick Taylor, who had left the band in 1974. Among them were Jeff Beck , Harvey Mandel (guitar solo in the funky piece Hot Stuff ), Wayne Perkins (guitar in Fool to Cry and solo in Hand of Fate ) and Ron Wood (guitar in the reggae piece Cherry oh baby and his inspired Hey Negrita ). The band ultimately decided on Ron Wood as a new group member.

On Title Melody was Billy Preston with bar-atmospheric piano playing and singing as partner of Mick Jagger involved. At Memory Motel , Mick Jagger and Keith Richards shared the lead vocals ; In addition, both musicians could be heard on the piano in this song, which describes life on tour, with Richard playing the electric piano. In the last song on the album, Crazy Mama , Jagger and Richards played the rock riffs as guitarists. With Fool to Cry , Black and Blue also contains a ballad carried by keyboard sounds.

Track list

#	title	Composer (s)	length
1	Hot stuff	Jagger / Richards	5:21
2	Hand of Fate	Jagger / Richards	4:28
3	Cherry Oh baby	Donaldson	3:54
4th	Memory Motel	Jagger / Richards	7:08
5	Hey Negrita	Jagger / Richards	4:58
6th	Melody	Jagger / Richards	5:48
7th	Fool to Cry	Jagger / Richards	5:02
8th	Crazy mom	Jagger / Richards	4:32

Texts / translations / notes

• The Rolling Stones. Songbook. 155 songs [1963–1977] with sheet music. German by Teja Schwaner, Jörg Fauser and Carl Weissner . With 75 alternative translations by Helmut Salzinger . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1977, pp. 336-357, 857-885 and 951 f.