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"Emotional Rescue" is a song by the English rock and roll band, the Rolling Stones. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and is included on their 1980 album Emotional Rescue.

"Emotional Rescue"
Single by the Rolling Stones
from the album Emotional Rescue
B-side	"Down in the Hole"
Released	20 June 1980
Recorded	1–19 October 1979
Genre	Pop rock[citation needed] dance-rock[1] disco-rock
Length	5:39 (LP version) 3:41 (Forty Licks Edit)
Label	Rolling Stones
Songwriter(s)	Jagger/Richards
Producer(s)	The Glimmer Twins
The Rolling Stones singles chronology
"Shattered" (1978) "Emotional Rescue" (1980) "She's So Cold" (1980)
Emotional Rescue track listing
10 tracks Side one "Dance (Pt. 1)" "Summer Romance" "Send It to Me" "Let Me Go" "Indian Girl" Side two "Where the Boys Go" "Down in the Hole" "Emotional Rescue" "She's So Cold" "All About You"
Music video
"Emotional Rescue" - OFFICIAL PROMO on YouTube

Recorded between June and October 1979, "Emotional Rescue" is a disco-influenced number, somewhat similar to the band's 1978 hit "Miss You". The song is notable as one of the earliest songs by the group to show the growing rift between Jagger and Richards. Although Richards plays guitar and added backing vocals towards the end of this track, he is believed to have disliked the disco-like direction in which Jagger was trying to take the band, although this may have been exaggerated by the media. ^{[citation needed]}

Composition and writing

Mick Jagger wrote the song on an electric piano and from the beginning it was sung in falsetto (similar to Marvin Gaye's lead vocal on his 1977 hit "Got to Give It Up"). When the song was brought into the studio they kept the electric piano and falsetto lead. With Ronnie Wood on bass and Charlie Watts on drums they worked out the song. They then added the saxophone part[2] played by Bobby Keys.[3] Bass guitarist Bill Wyman plays synthesizer on the record, while Jagger and Ian Stewart play electric piano. Wyman's synthesizer can be heard faintly during the verses on the right channel/speaker and plays a simple pattern of a few notes using a string-synth set up.

Jagger said the song was about "a girl who's in some sort of manhood problems", not that she was going crazy but she's "just a little bit screwed up and he wants to be the one to help her out".[2]

Released as the album's lead single on 20 June 1980, "Emotional Rescue" was well received by some fans. Other fans of the Rolling Stones' work took note of the change in direction and were disappointed by it. Reaching No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 3 in the U.S., "Emotional Rescue" became popular enough to feature on all of the band's later compilation albums.

Cash Box said that it was influenced by the music of "Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions, Thom Bell and (on the U.K. side) Eric Burdon," but is brought up-to-date by the "heavy beat."[4]

Despite touring extensively since the song's release in 1980, the Stones had never performed the track in concert until May 3, 2013, when the band debuted the song in their set list with a slightly different arrangement, during the first show of the 2013 leg of the 50 & Counting... tour, in Los Angeles, California.

Music video

Two music videos were produced to promote the single; one shot on traditional video,[5] directed by David Mallet and one shot with thermal imaging,[6] directed by Adam Friedman.

Personnel

The Rolling Stones

• Mick Jagger – lead vocals, Wurlitzer electronic piano - electric guitar
• Keith Richards – electric guitar
• Ronnie Wood – bass guitar
• Bill Wyman – string synthesizer
• Charlie Watts – drums

Additional personnel

• Ian Stewart – Wurlitzer electronic piano
• Bobby Keys – saxophone

Charts

Chart (1980)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[7]	8
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[8]	9
Canada (RPM)[9]	1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[10]	16
Germany (Official German Charts)[11]	15
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[12]	5
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[13]	16
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[14]	11
UK Singles (OCC)[15]	9
US Billboard Hot 100[16]	3

Year-end chart (1980)	Rank
US Top Pop Singles (Billboard)[17]	53

References

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[de] Emotional Rescue (Lied)

Emotional Rescue ist ein Lied der Rolling Stones aus dem Jahr 1980, das von Mick Jagger und Keith Richards geschrieben wurde. Es erschien auf dem gleichnamigen Album.

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