Emotional Rescue

Emotional Rescue
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/Atlantic
Producer	The Glimmer Twins
The Rolling Stones chronology
Some Girls (1978) Emotional Rescue (1980) Tattoo You (1981)
Singles from Emotional Rescue
"Emotional Rescue" Released: 20 June 1980 "She's So Cold/Send It to Me" Released: 22 September 1980

Emotional Rescue is the 15th British and 17th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1980. Upon release, the album topped the charts in both the US and UK.

History

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.

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.

Richards' "All About You" would be the first of several album closers featuring his increasingly gravelly lead vocal. 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.

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. She had previously been married to musician Andy Williams. 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 sung by Richards ("We Had It All" and "Let's Go Steady") can be found on the bootleg Static in the Attic, along with "Claudine".The songs "We Had It All" and "Claudine" have been officially released in the 2011 Some Girls Deluxe Edition remaster.The song "Let's Go Steady" has not yet been officially released;thus it can only be found on bootlegs.

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.

Packaging and artwork

The album cover, designed by Peter Corriston, features a selection of thermographic photos taken by British-born, Paris-based artist Roy Adzak 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.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Blender	link
Robert Christgau	B+ link
Rolling Stone 1980	(Negative) link
Rolling Stone 2004	link

Track listing

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
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

Side two
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

The Rolling Stones

• Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, electric guitar, acoustic and electric piano
• Keith Richards – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals on "All About You", piano
• Ronnie Wood – electric, acoustic, slide, and pedal steel guitar, backing vocals,
• Charlie Watts – drums
• Bill Wyman – bass guitar, synthesizer

Additional musicians

• 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 – assosiate producer and engineer

Chart positions

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1980	UK Top 75 Albums	1
1980	Billboard Pop Albums	1

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1980	"Emotional Rescue"	UK Top 75 Singles	9[citation needed]
1980	"Emotional Rescue"	The Billboard Hot 100	3[citation needed]
1980	"Emotional Rescue/Dance Pt. 1/She's So Cold"	Club Play Singles	9[citation needed]
1980	"She's So Cold"	UK Top 75 Singles	33[citation needed]
1980	"She's So Cold"	The Billboard Hot 100	26[citation needed]

Certifications

Country	Provider	Certification (sales thresholds)
United States	RIAA	2× Platinum
France	SNEP	Gold
United Kingdom	BPI	Gold

References

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