Recorded throughout 1979, first in Nassau, Bahamas (Compass Point), then Paris (Pathe Marconi), with some end-of-year overdubbing at Electric Lady Studios 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, Richards and Mick Jagger led the Stones through dozens of new songs, picking only ten for the album’s final cut.
Notable Mention: Listen as Mick shouts out the cross streets for Electric Lady Studios in the opening lines of the album’s lead track, “Dance (Part 1).”