Emotional Rescue

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Emotional Rescue
The Rolling Stones studio album

Publication
(s)

June 20, 1980

Label (s) Rolling Stones / Virgin

Format (s)

LP, MC, CD

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

10

running time

41:15 (LP, MC) / 41:18 (CD)

occupation

production

The Glimmer Twins

Studio (s)

January 18 through February 19,
June 10 through October 19,
November through December 1979,
Nassau, Paris, New York City

chronology
Some Girls
(1978) 		Emotional Rescue Sucking in the Seventies
(1981)

Emotional Rescue is a studio album by the British rock group The Rolling Stones released in 1980 on the Rolling Stones Records label . It was the follow-up to the hit album Some Girls and was also a box-office hit .

The album produced by The Glimmer Twins ( Keith Richards and Mick Jagger ) was recorded from January 1979, first in Nassau in the Bahamas and then in Paris ; At the end of 1979 there was a post-production in New York City .

Emotional Rescue was the first album after Keith Richards was acquitted by a court in Toronto, Canada, in a drug possession trial - he faced several years in prison. The Stones recorded a dozen new songs, so many of them were used for the later album Tattoo You and only ten were used for Emotional Rescue .

Most of the songs were recorded in the standard line-up with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts , Ron Wood and Bill Wyman , keyboardists Nicky Hopkins and Ian Stewart , saxophonist Bobby Keys and harmonica player Sugar Blue came for the title track Emotional Rescue to. Michael Shrieve is there on the percussion.

The album cover designed by Peter Corriston shows photos of the Stones that were made with the help of a thermal imaging camera . The original edition of the album was released wrapped in a large poster on which other thermal images of the band could be seen; the whole thing was in a plastic bag. The music video for Emotional Rescue also shows recordings with a thermal imaging camera.

When the album came out in June 1980, the single with the disco sound influenced title song Emotional Rescue climbed into the English Top 10: It reached number 9 in the UK Top 75 Singles and even number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 Album itself made it to # 1 in both the UK Top 75 Albums and Billboard Pop Albums, making it the Stones' first number one album in the UK since Goats Head Soup (1973). The album stayed at the top of the US charts for seven weeks. While the album was a huge hit with fans, music critics were less enthusiastic about it. Among other things, it was complained that the best songs on the record appeared at the end. In his review in Sounds , Diedrich Diederichsen complained that the Rolling Stones had lost every bite:

"Every song grunts a sated, grinning joy of life from people who lack nothing and who [...] have moved far away from the feeling of lack or self-doubt."

Later evaluations were less strict, but Emotional Rescue is still considered one of the more mediocre works of the Rolling Stones to this day.

In 1994 Virgin Records released a new version of the album. All titles were digitally remastered by Bob Ludwig in the Gateway Mastering Studios .

Track list

  1. Dance - 4.22 (Jagger / Richards / Wood)
  2. Summer Romance - 3.15 (Jagger / Richards)
  3. Send It to Me - 3.42 (Jagger / Richards)
  4. Let Me Go - 3.49 (Jagger / Richards)
  5. Indian Girl - 4.22 (Jagger / Richards)
  6. Where the Boys Go - 3.29 (Jagger / Richards)
  7. Down in the Hole - 3.57 (Jagger / Richards)
  8. Emotional Rescue - 5.39 (Jagger / Richards)
  9. She's So Cold - 4.12 (Jagger / Richards)
  10. All About You - 4.18 (Jagger / Richards)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from Arno Frank : Mick Jagger is 70. The central organ of rock . In: taz of July 26, 2013 ( online , accessed July 26, 2013).

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