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Emotional RescueEmotional Rescue is an album by The Rolling Stones, released on 23 June, 1980. It was the follow-up to the highly successful Some Girls, and the first album the band had cut since guitarist Keith Richards had ended a long addiction to heroin. The album was engineered by Chris Kimsey, who also received an associate producer credit for his trouble. The sessions were some of the most protracted the Stones had ever held, taking place at RCA Studios, New York, in August-September 1978; Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas in January-February 1979; and Pathe Marconi Studios, Paris, France, in June-October, 1979. The album was mixed at sessions (including much overdubbing) at Electric Lady Studios, New York, in November-December 1979. One reason for the extended nature of the sessions was to fit in around various solo activities, with Keith Richards and Ron Wood starting a side band called the New Barbarians, and Bill Wyman scoring a best-selling solo single, Je Suis Un Rock Star, and self-titled solo album. The band ended up recording a vast number of songs, some of which would end up on 1981's Tattoo You. As opposed to the stripped-down approach of Some Girls, the Emotional Rescue album utilised a number of studio musicians, including some very familiar faces. While several of the tracks featured just the core band of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood and Bill Wyman, featured on the album were keyboardists Nicky Hopkins and Ian 'Stu' Stewart; sax player Bobby Keys; harmonica player Sugar Blue; ex-Santana percussionist Michael Shrieve; and backing vocals from Max Romeo. Arif Mardin and Jack Nitzsche provided horn arrangements and conducting. Of the above, only Shrieve and Romeo had not appeared on a previous Stones album (and Shrieve had known the band since 1969). The album cover, designed by Peter Corriston, featured a sombre selection of band photos which had been taken by a thermo camera, which measured heat emmissions. 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 first single from the album was the title track, a surprisingly strange (but catchy) song heavy on drums and Jagger's electric piano, and with an extended spoken word section. The public enjoyed it, however, and it went to number one in the USA. (One person who didn't enjoy it was Keith Richards.) The follow-up was the more typically Stonesish rocker She's So Cold. The album was an immediate hit sales-wise, but not a long-lasting one. It is estimated to have sold four million copies worldwide through 2000. Critics were tepid on the album, with the general view being that it was almost a too calculating attempt to follow Some Girls with more of the same, but with lesser songs, and a couple of experiments that led to dead ends. One track that did come in for praise was Richards' country ballad "All About You", a farewell to ex-girlfriend Anita Pallenberg and the drug lifestyle. All the tracks were written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards except for "Dance Pt 1", for which Ron Wood picks up a co-credit, thus becoming the first person to share an official credit on a Stones album since Mick Taylor in 1972. Track listing - Dance Pt 1 (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 (3.57)
- Emotional Rescue (5.39)
- She's So Cold (4.12)
- All About You (4.18)
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