Emotional Rescue

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Emotional Rescue is a 1980 published on the Rolling Stones Records label studio album by the British rock group The Rolling Stones. It was the successor of the successful album Some Girls and was also a blockbuster.

Produced by The Glimmer Twins ( Keith Richards and Mick Jagger ) album was first recorded in Nassau in the Bahamas and then in Paris from January, 1979; The end of 1979 took place in New York City still a post.

Emotional Rescue was the first album after Keith Richards was acquitted by a court in Toronto, Canada in a process for drug possession - he had a multi-year prison sentence threatened. The Stones took the dozen new songs, so many of them for the later album Tattoo You found use and only ten were used for Emotional Rescue.

Most of the songs were recorded in the standard line-up with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood and Bill Wyman, for the title track Emotional Rescue were still the keyboardist Nicky Hopkins and Ian Stewart, saxophonist Bobby Keys and the harmonica player Sugar Blue to do so.

Are seen, which have been made using a thermal imaging camera photos of the Stones on the designed by Peter Corriston album cover. The original edition of the album was released encased in a large poster to see more on the thermal images of the band were; the whole thing was in a plastic bag. Also, the music video for Emotional Rescue shows images with a thermal imaging camera.

When the album came out in June 1980, climbed the single release with the title song Emotional Rescue influenced by disco sound into the UK Top 10: The UK Top 75 singles she reached # 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 even 3rd place The album itself made ​​it both in the UK Top 75 Albums and the Billboard Pop Albums at No. 1 and was the first number one album in the UK since the Stones Goats Head Soup (1973). In the U.S. charts, the album remained for seven weeks at the top. While the album was a huge success with the fans, the music critic of him were less enthusiastic. Among other things, the point was made that the best songs appeared on the plate at the end. Diedrich Diederichsen complained in his review in the sounds, the Rolling Stones had lost every bite:

" For every song grunts a saturated, grien joy of life of people who lack nothing and the [ ... ] have been far from the feeling of deprivation or self-doubt. "

Subsequent evaluations were less strict, but applies Emotional Rescue until today as one of the more mediocre works of the Rolling Stones.

In 1994, Virgin Records, a new version of the album out. All tracks have been remastered by Bob Ludwig for Gateway Mastering Studios in digital.

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