Steel Wheels

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Steel Wheels
The Rolling Stones studio album

Publication
(s)

September 29, 1989

Label (s) Rolling Stones Records; Initial distribution: CBS

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

12

running time

53:03

occupation Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, Bill Wyman

production

Chris Kimsey & The Glimmer Twins

Studio (s)

March 29th – 5th May & May 15th – May 29th June 1989, AIR Studios ( Montserrat ), Olympic Studios, London

chronology
Dirty Work
(1986) 		Steel Wheels Flashpoint
(1991)

Steel Wheels is the 19th music album of the Rolling Stones from the year 1989th

album

The album was released on September 29, 1989 on CBS Records . It was recorded at AIR Studios in Montserrat (June 1989), Olympic Studios in London and Hit Factory in New York City (both July 1989). Production was done by The Glimmer Twins (a pseudonym of Jagger / Richards ) and Chris Kimsey . It was the Stones' first album to be digitally recorded and mixed. The cover design was done by Karl Hyde and Rick Smith.

Steel Wheels is one of the Rolling Stones' best-selling albums. It marked the reunification of the band after the quarrels in the 1980s . The highest positions in the charts were number 3 in the US and number 2 in the UK.

The album starts with one of the typical Stones rockers (Sad Sad Sad) and ends with the ballad Slipping Away sung by Keith Richards . The piece Continental Drift , which is characterized by African sounds, features the Master Musicians of Jajouka from Morocco , with whom Brian Jones had already worked in 1969. Other guest musicians on the album were Chuck Leavell (piano, organ), Luis Jardin (percussion), Matt Clifford (keyboards), Phil Beer (violin, mandolin), The Kick Horns; Bernard Fowler, Sara Dash and Lisa Fischer (background vocals) and the group Farafina from Burkina Faso .

The single Mixed Emotions, which made it to number 5 on the US Billboard charts , gave the Stones their first real hit in the US since Start Me Up , published in 1981 .

The album has also been available as a digital remastering since July 17th, 2009 .

tour

After the release of Steel Wheels, the Stones went on tour for the first time since 1982 . The Steel Wheels Tour took them through the USA and Canada from August to December 1989 ( Guns n 'Roses played among others ). For the first time in their history, the band also performed in Japan . All 10 concerts (January 14-27 , 1990 ) took place in the Karakuen Stadium (Tokyo Dome) in Tokyo .

The tour continued from May 1990 on the Urban Jungle Tour through Europe. Since the Steel Wheels stage was too big for the European stadiums, a completely new stage was constructed and the concert program was also slightly changed and shortened. Within three months, the Stones played in Rotterdam (prelude), Munich , Barcelona , Paris , London , Prague and for the first time in East Berlin (at reduced prices).

The world tour was the most successful and top-selling that a rock band had ever completed. In North America as well as in Japan and Europe, many of the concerts were sold out within hours.

Track list

  1. Sad Sad Sad - 3:44
  2. Mixed Emotions - 4:40
  3. Terrifying - 4:57
  4. Hold On to Your Hat - 3:35
  5. Hearts for Sale - 4:40
  6. Blinded by Love - 4:45
  7. Rock and a Hard Place - 5:20 am
  8. Can't Be Seen - 4:05
  9. Almost Hear You Sigh - 4:25
  10. Continental Drift - 5:14
  11. Break the Spell - 3:40
  12. Slipping Away - 4:30

All titles by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards , except Almost Hear You Sigh by Jagger / Jordan / Richards.

literature

  • Bill Wyman: Bill Wyman's Rolling Stones Story. Dorling Kindersley. Starnberg, 2002 ISBN 3-8310-0391-2 , p. 490

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