In late 1973, a six-week run by means of Europe in September and October noticed the Rolling Stones play 32 exhibits, usually with two on the identical day. Lower than a month after that tour led to Germany, the band had been again in that nation, at Musicland Studios in Munich, to start out manufacturing on the file that grew to become their subsequent album, It’s Solely Rock ‘n’ Roll.
The LP was launched on October 16, 1974 and took the Stones to the highest of the U.S. chart on November 23. That got here throughout a interval of British domination through which the Stones succeeded John Lennon’s Partitions and Bridges for per week, earlier than Elton John’s first Best Hits album took over for the remainder of the 12 months.
The Stones’ twelfth U.Okay. studio album, the file seized the momentum of the title observe and opening single, which reached No.10 there in August – though it carried out extra modestly, for the Stones, in America, peaking at No.16. The album noticed the band at one thing of a crossroads, as their final to characteristic guitarist Mick Taylor and the primary for seven years to be produced by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, going by the unofficial collective of the Glimmer Twins for the primary time.
The video for the title observe, with Charlie Watts disappearing due to an out-of-control bubble machine, is a much-loved visible spotlight of the band on the time. One other clip that captures the period is the official video for his or her cowl of the Temptations’ “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg,” launched as a U.S. single. The band’s sartorial selections are a factor to behold.
Sturdy new compositions similar to “Time Waits For No One” and “Fingerprint File” helped the album to a robust reception, particularly within the U.S.. Greg Shaw in Phonograph Report referred to as it “the Stones’ most consistent album in years, their most open and alive sounding, and certainly their most healthy in terms of the direction it opens for them — although as always it would be a mistake to expect them to continue in a straight line.”
It’s Solely Rock ’n’ Roll was the fourth of eight consecutive No.1 LPs in America, the place it turned platinum; it peaked within the U.Okay. at No.2, and made the High 3 throughout a lot of Europe.
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