Emotional Rescue
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| 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 | |||
| Studio | Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 41:15 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Rolling Stones | |||
| Producer | The Glimmer Twins | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Blender | |
| Robert Christgau | B+ |
| MusicHound | 2/5 |
| Rolling Stone | unfavourable |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
| Smash Hits | 5/10 |
Emotional Rescue is the 15th British and 17th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1980. Upon release, it topped the charts in both the US and UK.
Recorded throughout 1979, first in Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas, then Pathé Marconi, 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 revitalisation of Some Girls (1978), Richards and Mick Jagger led the Stones through dozens of new songs, some of which were held over for Tattoo You (1981), picking only ten for Emotional Rescue.
Several of the tracks on the album featured just the core Rolling Stones band members: Jagger, Richards, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman. On others, they were joined by keyboardists Nicky Hopkins and co-founder Ian Stewart, sax player Bobby Keys and harmonica player Sugar Blue.
Songs left off the album would find their way onto the next album, Tattoo You ("Black Limousine", "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. A cover song sung by Richards: "We Had It All", was released on the 2011 deluxe Some Girls package.
The album cover for Emotional Rescue had concept origination, art direction and design by Peter Corriston with 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 utilised the same type of shots of the band performing.
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