Emotional Rescue
The Rolling Stones
- First released
- 23 June 1980
- Tracks on this edition
- 10
- Running time
- 41:18
The cover
Emotional Rescue built its sleeve around Roy Adzak’s thermal portraits of the Stones. In recollections collected by IORR, Peter Corriston describes arranging those images for the cover and an accompanying poster. Accounts place the session in both Paris and New York, leaving its location uncertain.
Thermal photography: Roy Adzak (IORR archive account); Arrangement for cover and poster: Peter Corriston (IORR archive account)
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What critics said
Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s AllMusic review finds Emotional Rescue full of slight songs played with considerable skill. He enjoys the authority of performances such as “Send It to Me” and “Summer Romance”, while reserving his strongest praise for the title track’s disco rock and the Chuck Berry reshaping of “She’s So Cold”.
Tracklist
US edition · 23 June 1980
Select a song for details
- A1Dance, Part 14:23
- A2Summer Romance3:16
- A3Send It to Me3:43
- A4Let Me Go3:52
- A5Indian Girl4:24
- B1Where the Boys Go3:29
- B2Down in the Hole3:58
- B3Emotional Rescue5:39
- B4She’s So Cold4:14
- B5All About You4:20
Sources & coverage
About these numbers
Concert figures describe 2,181 distinct archive record IDs from 1962-07-12 to 2024-07-21. Separate same-day record IDs remain separate; they have not all been reviewed as unique performed concerts.
1,506 records have stored song entries; 675 do not. Complete-setlist coverage is not established. Missing entries do not establish that a song was not played.
Song observations count distinct record IDs with a matching title after playback entries are excluded. These are documented appearances, not verified full-song performances. Tour groupings can include warm-up dates.
- MusicBrainz — album identities, editions and track programmes
The catalogue import contains core metadata only. Cover artwork and critical responses have separate sources in the sections above. Annotations, genre associations and database ratings remain excluded.
MusicBrainz data licence - setlist.fm — concert history and setlists
Concert dates, venues and setlists from the editor-supplied archive. Every concert page credits setlist.fm and links to its original record. Song observations are calculated by Glimmer Wire from those entries, with playback excluded.
Snapshot: 2026-10-03T21:42:51Z. Original database supplied and factually approved by the editor; normalized and calculated by Glimmer Wire. Counts can change when records or identities are corrected.
Calculation record
Concert records: distinct concert.setlist_id. Country groups: concert.country_code. Stored entries: records with non-playback setlist_song rows. Song appearances: distinct concert_song.setlist_id matched to setlist_song by record ID, position and exact raw title, excluding tape = 1. This does not use a complete-setlist percentage denominator.
Snapshot SHA-256: 7e86a3e2d0670574fd1e8bf42cd9e4dc99d3325db8db1b471707805387b00e5a
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