Template:Album infobox 2 Emotional Rescue is an album by The Rolling Stones and was 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 successor and a deliberate attempt to replicate its more famous predecessor.
Recorded throughout all of 1979, first in Nassau, Bahamas, then Paris, with some end-of-year overdubbing in New York City, the making of Emotional Rescue was the first Rolling Stones album recorded following Keith Richards' exoneration from a Toronto drugs charges 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 join 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 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.
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 overall (at least, compared with Some Girls) and with the sequencing oddly placing its best songs at the end of the running order. Second single, "She's So Cold" was a Top 30 follow-up hit, while Richards' "All About You" would be the first of several album closers featuring his increasingly gravel-sounding voice on lead vocal.
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