Black and Blue

Occupation

• Mick Jagger
• Keith Richards
• Ron Wood
• Bill Wyman
• Charlie Watts

Studios

• 7 to 15 December 1974
• January 22 to February 9,
• March 25 to April 4,
• October 19 to 31,
• 3 to 16 December 1975
• January 18th to February 1976 in Munich, Rotterdam, Montreux and New York City

Black and Blue is the thirteenth studio album released in the UK by the Rolling Stones.

The album was released on April 20, 1976. In Europe it was released on WEA Records and reached the second place on the charts in the UK. In the U.S., was the publication on Atlantic Records and took four weeks the first place of the charts. The songs were recorded mostly in 1975 in Musicland Studios in Munich.

The song selection on Black and Blue is diverse and multifaceted. It can be heard funk, blues, rock, jazz, and reggae influences. Black and Blue is referred to as the " blackest " album of the Stones due to these influences.

The Stones tested as part of the recording of this album several guitarists to find a successor to Mick Taylor, who left the band in 1974. Among them were Jeff Beck, Harvey Mandel (guitar solo on the funky piece Hot Stuff ), Wayne Perkins ( Solo in Hand of Fate ) and Ron Wood (guitar in reggae - piece Cherry Oh ​​Baby ' and the inspired by him Hey Negrita ). The band ultimately opted for Ron Wood as a new group member.

At the title Melody Billy Preston was involved with bar - atmospheric piano playing and singing as a partner of Mick Jagger. In Memory Motel Mick Jagger and Keith Richards shared the lead vocals; also were musicians in this, to hear that life on tour descriptive song on piano, electric piano played with Richards. The last song on the album, Crazy Mama, Jagger and Richards attended as a guitarist for the rock riffs. With Fool to Cry Black and Blue also contains a supported keyboard sounds ballad.

The word playful album entitled Black and Blue - German -language counterpart " green and blue ( beaten ) " - shall refer to the influence of black music on the LP: "Black" for black music and "Blue " for the typical African-American Blue Notes.

Title list

The Rolling Stones ( 1964) | 12 × 5 (1964 ) | The Rolling Stones No. 2 (1965 ) | The Rolling Stones, Now! (1965 ) | Out of Our Heads (1965 ) | December 's Children (And Everybody 's) ( 1965) | Aftermath (1965 ) | Got Live If You Want It! (1966 ) | Between the Buttons (1967 ) | Flowers (1967 ) | Their Satanic Majesties Request ( 1967 ) | Beggars Banquet (1968 ) | Let It Bleed (1969 ) | Get Yer Ya -Ya 's Out! (1970 ) | Sticky Fingers (1971 ) | Exile on Main St. (1972 ) | Goats Head Soup (1973 ) | It's Only Rock ' n' Roll ( 1974) | Made in the Shade (1975 ) | Metamorphosis (1975 ) | Black and Blue (1976 ) | Love You Live (1977 ) | Some Girls (1978 ) | Emotional Rescue (1980 ) | Sucking in the Seventies ( 1981) | Tattoo You (1981 ) | Still Life (American Concert 1981) ( 1982) | Undercover (1983 ) | Rewind (1984 ) | Dirty Work (1986 ) | Singles Collection: The London Years ( 1989) | Steel Wheels (1989 ) | Flash Point ( 1991) | Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones ( 1993) | Voodoo Lounge (1994 ) | Stripped (1995 ) | rock and Roll Circus (1996 ) | Bridges to Babylon (1997 ) | No Security (1998 ) | Forty Licks (2002 ) | Live licks (2004 ) | A Bigger Bang (2005 ) | Rarities 1971-2003 (2005 ) | Shine a Light ( 2008) | Get Yer Ya -Ya 's Out! (Deluxe ) (2009 ) | Exile on Main St. (Deluxe ) (2010 ) | The Brussels Affair '73 ( 2011) | Some Girls - Live in Texas '78 ( 2011) | Some Girls (Deluxe ) (2011 ) | Hampton Coliseum ( Live 1981) ( 2012) | LA Friday (Live 1975) ( 2012) | Live at the Tokyo Dome (2012 ) | Light the Fuse - A Bigger Bang Tour, Toronto Live 2005 (2012 ) | Charlie Is My Darling - Ireland 1965 (2012) | Grrr! (2012 ) | Live at Leeds - Roundhay Park 1982 ( 2012) | Sweet Summer Sun - Hyde Park Live (2013 )

• Album ( rock )
• Album 1976
• The- Rolling - Stones - Album
• Number-one album