Emotional Rescue

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Emotional Rescue is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1980. As the follow-up to 1978's acclaimed best-seller Some Girls, it was a commercial success but is generally seen as an inferior product and a deliberate attempt to replicate its more famous predecessor.

Recorded throughout 1979, first in Nassau, Bahamas, then Paris, 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 Rolling Stones through dozens of new songs - many 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 Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood and Bill Wyman, keyboardists Nicky Hopkins and Ian Stewart, sax player Bobby Keys and harmonica player Sugar Blue joined The Rolling Stones on Emotional Rescue.

The album cover, designed by Peter Corriston, features a sombre selection of band photos which had been taken by a thermo camera, a device which measures heat emissions. The original release came wrapped in a huge colour poster featuring more thermo-shots of the band, the whole being wrapped in a plastic bag. The music video shot for "Emotional Rescue" also utilized thermo-shots of the band performing.

Released in June with the disco-infused hit title track as the lead single, Emotional Rescue was an immediate smash, giving The Rolling Stones their first UK #1 album since 1973's Goats Head Soup and spent seven weeks atop the US charts. While sales were strong, the critics were tepid on the album, finding it weak over all (at least compared with Some Girls) and noting the odd sequencing that appeared to place its strongest songs at the end of the running order. The follow-up single "She's So Cold" was a Top 30 hit, while Richards' "All About You" would be the first of several album closers featuring his increasingly gravel-sounding voice on lead vocal. Subsequent critical evaluation of the record has been somewhat kinder, placing it in the context of the Stones' eclectic, so-called "silver age," running roughly from 1976's Black and Blue to 1981's Tattoo You, though its reputation has never qualified the album as a definitive Stones record.

In 1994, Emotional Rescue was remastered and reissued by Virgin Records.

Track listing

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

"Dance (Pt. 1)" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards/Ron Wood) - 4:23
"Summer Romance" - 3:16
"Send It To Me" - 3:43
"Let Me Go" - 3:50
"Indian Girl" - 4:23
"Where The Boys Go" - 3:29
"Down In The Hole" - 3:58
"Emotional Rescue" - 5:39
"She's So Cold" - 4:14
"All About You" - 4:18

External links

[Rolling Stones EMOTIONAL RESCUE] EMOTIONAL RESCUE Rolling Stones

Albums by The Rolling Stones
U.K. studio albums and EPs 1964 - 1967: The Rolling Stones (EP) \| The Rolling Stones \| Five by Five (EP) \| The Rolling Stones No. 2 \| Out of Our Heads \| Aftermath \| Between the Buttons
U.S. albums 1964 - 1967: England's Newest Hitmakers \| 12 X 5 \| The Rolling Stones, Now! \| Out of Our Heads \| December's Children (And Everybody's) \| Aftermath \| Between the Buttons \| Flowers
Albums 1967 - present: Their Satanic Majesties Request \| Beggars Banquet \| Let It Bleed \| Sticky Fingers \| Exile on Main St. \| Goats Head Soup \| It's Only Rock'n Roll \| Black and Blue \| Some Girls \| Emotional Rescue \| Tattoo You \| Undercover \| Dirty Work \| Steel Wheels \| Voodoo Lounge \| Bridges to Babylon \| A Bigger Bang
Live albums: got LIVE if you want it! (EP) \| Got Live if You Want It! \| Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert \| Love You Live \| "Still Life" (American Concert 1981) \| Flashpoint \| Stripped \| No Security \| Live Licks
Compilations: Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (US) \| Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (UK) \| Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) \| Made in the Shade \| Sucking in the Seventies \| Rewind (1971-1984) \| \| Forty Licks \| Rarities 1971-2003
Post-contract ABKCO albums: Hot Rocks 1964-1971 \| More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) \| Metamorphosis \| \| The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus \| Singles 1963-1965 \| Singles 1965-1967 \| Singles 1968-1971
Nicky Hopkins, Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts: Jamming with Edward

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