Emotional Rescue
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| Studio album by The Rolling Stones | ||||
| Released | 20 June 1980 | |||
| Recorded | 5 January - 2 March, 23 August - 6 September 1978, 18 January - 12 February, 10 June - 19 October, November - December 1979 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 41:15 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Rolling Stones | |||
| Producer | The Glimmer Twins | |||
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Emotional Rescue is the 15th British and 17th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1980. Upon release, it topped the charts in both the US and UK.
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History [edit]
Recorded throughout 1979, first in Nassau, Bahamas (Compass Point), then Paris (Pathe Marconi), with some end-of-year overdubbing in New York City, Emotional Rescue was the first Rolling Stones album recorded following Keith Richards' exoneration from a Toronto drugs charge that could have landed him in jail for years. Fresh from the revitalization of Some Girls, Richards and Mick Jagger led the Stones through dozens of new songs, some of which were held over for Tattoo You, picking only ten for Emotional Rescue.
While several of the tracks featured just the core band of Jagger, Richards, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman, keyboardists Nicky Hopkins and co-founder Ian Stewart, sax player Bobby Keys and harmonica player Sugar Blue joined the Rolling Stones on Emotional Rescue.
The song "Claudine" was rumored to be a part of the original album, but didn't make the cut most likely due to the fear of litigation and controversy. The lyrics dealt with the light sentence (30 days in jail) singer-actress Claudine Longet received after she killed her live-in boyfriend, Olympian ski racer Vladimir "Spider" Sabich, in their Aspen, Colorado home. The song was eventually released as part of the deluxe version of Some Girls in 2011. Some other songs left off the album would find their way onto the next album, Tattoo You ("Black Limousine", "Start Me Up", "Hang Fire", "Little T&A", and "No Use in Crying"). "Think I'm Going Mad", another song from the sessions, was released as the B-side to "She Was Hot" in 1984. Two cover songs were sung by Richards: "We Had It All", now released on the 2011 deluxe Some Girls package, and "Let's Go Steady", still only available on bootlegs.
Other songs recorded in these sessions but never released are "Going Mad" "I Can See It" "Rotten Roll" "Fiji Jim" "Misty Roads" "I Like it Too Much" "Need a Yellow Cab" and "Nanker Phelge". These songs can be found on some vinyl bootleg albums of that era.
Packaging and artwork [edit]
The album cover, designed by Peter Corriston, features a selection of thermographic photos taken by British-born, Paris-based artist Roy Adzak[1] using a thermo camera, a device that measures heat emissions. The original release came wrapped in a huge colour poster featuring more thermo-shots of the band with the album itself wrapped in a plastic bag. The music video shot for "Emotional Rescue" also utilized the same type of shots of the band performing.
Release and reception [edit]
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   link |
| Blender | link |
| Robert Christgau | (B+) link |
| Rolling Stone (1980) | (Negative) link |
| Rolling Stone (2004) | link |
Released in June with the disco-infused hit title track as the lead single, Emotional Rescue was an immediate smash. The title track hit #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album gave the Rolling Stones their first UK #1 album since 1973's Goats Head Soup and spent seven weeks atop the US charts. The follow-up single "She's So Cold" was a top 30 hit while "Dance Pt. 1" reached #9 on Billboard's Dance chart.
The album closer, "All About You (song)," featured Keith Richards's increasingly gravelly lead vocal, presaging a tradition that would begin in earnest in the late '80s of ending Stones studio albums with a track sung by Richards. (Tattoo You (released the following year), Undercover (released in 1983) and the CD version of 1994's Voodoo Lounge have subsequently been the only exceptions.)
In 1994, Emotional Rescue was remastered and reissued by Virgin Records, and again in 2009 by Universal Music. In 2011 it was released by Universal Music Enterprises in a Japanese only SHM-SACD version.
Track listing [edit]
All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.
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| 1. | "Dance (Pt. 1)" (Jagger/Richards/Ronnie Wood) | 4:23 | ||||||||
| 2. | "Summer Romance" | 3:16 | ||||||||
| 3. | "Send It to Me" | 3:43 | ||||||||
| 4. | "Let Me Go" | 3:50 | ||||||||
| 5. | "Indian Girl" | 4:23 | ||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 6. | "Where the Boys Go" | 3:29 | ||||||||
| 7. | "Down in the Hole" | 3:57 | ||||||||
| 8. | "Emotional Rescue" | 5:39 | ||||||||
| 9. | "She's So Cold" | 4:12 | ||||||||
| 10. | "All About You" | 4:18 | ||||||||
Personnel [edit]
- The Rolling Stones
- Mick Jagger - lead and backing vocals, electric guitar, acoustic and electric piano
- Keith Richards - electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals, piano, lead vocals and bass guitar on "All About You"
- Ronnie Wood - electric, acoustic, slide and pedal steel guitar, backing vocals, bass guitar on "Emotional Rescue"
- Charlie Watts - drums
- Bill Wyman - bass guitar, synthesiser
- Additional personnel
- Ian Stewart - electric and acoustic piano, percussion
- Nicky Hopkins - piano, xylophone
- Billy Preston - clavinet
- Sugar Blue - harmonica
- Bobby Keys - saxophone
- Michael Shrieve - percussion
- Max Romeo - backing vocals on "Dance (Pt. 1)"
- Jack Nitzsche - horn arrangement on "Indian Girl"
- Chris Kimsey - associate producer and engineer
Chart positions [edit]
- Album
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1980 | UK Top 75 Albums[2] | 1 |
| 1980 | Billboard Pop Albums[3] | 1 |
| 1980 | Dutch Albums Chart[4] | 1 |
| 1980 | Swedish Albums Chart[4] | 1 |
| 1980 | Austrian Albums Chart[4] | 2 |
- Singles
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1980 | "Emotional Rescue" | UK Top 75 Singles[2] | 9 |
| 1980 | "Emotional Rescue" | The Billboard Hot 100[3] | 3 |
| 1980 | "Emotional Rescue /Dance Pt. 1/She's So Cold" |
Club Play Singles[3] | 9 |
| 1980 | "She's So Cold" | UK Top 75 Singles[2] | 33 |
| 1980 | "She's So Cold" | The Billboard Hot 100[3] | 26 |
Certifications [edit]
| Country | Provider | Certification (sales thresholds) |
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| United States | RIAA | 2× Platinum |
| France | SNEP | Gold |
| United Kingdom | BPI | Gold |
| Preceded by Glass Houses by Billy Joel |
Billboard 200 number-one album 26 July - 12 September 1980 |
Succeeded by Hold Out by Jackson Browne |
| Preceded by Flesh and Blood by Roxy Music |
UK Albums Chart number one album 5-18 July 1980 |
Succeeded by The Game by Queen |
References [edit]
- ^ www.discogs.com
- ^ a b c "The Official Charts Company - Emotional Rescue". The Official Charts Company. 6 May 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Emotional Rescue on Billboard". Rovi Corporation / Billboard. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
- ^ a b c "Emotional Rescue on International Charts". Retrieved 11 October 2012.
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