Flashpoint (album)

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Flashpoint
Live album by The Rolling Stones
Released	8 April 1991
Recorded	25 November 1989 - 27 July 1990, Except "Highwire" and "Sex Drive": 7 - 11 January 1991
Genre	Rock
Length	76:12
Label	Rolling Stones/Virgin
Producer	Chris Kimsey and The Glimmer Twins
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link
The Rolling Stones chronology
Steel Wheels (1989) Flashpoint (1991) Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones (1993)

Flashpoint is a live album by British rock band The Rolling Stones. It was released in 1991, having been recorded throughout 1989 and 1990 on the mammoth Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour. It was the first live album by the group since 1982's "Still Life" (American Concert 1981).

[edit] History

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Recorded across North America, Europe and Japan, Flashpoint is also the first Rolling Stones release of the 1990s and, unlike previous live sets, is bolstered by the appearance of two exclusive new studio tracks: "Highwire" and "Sex Drive"; the former was released as a single earlier in 1991 and was a comment on the Gulf War.

Although the live selections are mostly familiar hits mixed in with new tracks from Steel Wheels, Flashpoint does offer up a few obscure songs: "Factory Girl" from 1968's Beggars Banquet and "Little Red Rooster", originally a #1 UK hit single in 1964 featured here with special guest Eric Clapton on guitar.

Flashpoint was also The Rolling Stones' final release under their Sony Music contract, with the band signing a long-term and lucrative worldwide deal with Virgin Records in 1991 - where they remain presently - all, that is, but Bill Wyman. After thirty years with the band, the 55-year-old Wyman decided that he had other interests he wanted to pursue and felt that the enormity of the Steel Wheels project and tour was fitting to bow out with. Although he would not officially announce his departure until January 1993 - during which time the rest of the band repeatedly asked him to reconsider -he had talked about leaving the band for at least ten years. After his departure, Ronnie Wood was finally taken off salary and made a full member of the Rolling Stones partnership, 18 years after he joined the band.

Flashpoint was released in April 1991 and was generally well-received - with "Highwire" becoming a rock radio hit - and managed to reach #6 in the UK and #16 in the US where it went gold.

In 1998, Flashpoint was remastered and reissued by Virgin Records.

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

1. "(Intro) Continental Drift" – 0:29
2. "Start Me Up" – 3:54
3. "Sad Sad Sad" – 3:33
4. "Miss You" – 5:55
5. "Rock and a Hard Place" – 4:51 (omitted from vinyl version)
6. "Ruby Tuesday" – 3:34
7. "You Can't Always Get What You Want" – 7:26
8. "Factory Girl" – 2:48
9. "Can't Be Seen" – 4:17 (omitted from vinyl version)
10. "Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon) – 5:15
11. "Paint It, Black" – 4:02
12. "Sympathy for the Devil" – 5:35
13. "Brown Sugar" – 4:10
14. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" – 5:00
15. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" – 6:08
16. "Highwire" – 4:46
17. "Sex Drive" – 4:28

[edit] Personnel

• Mick Jagger - vocals, harmonica
• Keith Richards - guitar, background vocals
• Ronnie Wood - guitar
• Bill Wyman - bass
• Charlie Watts - drums

• Chuck Leavell - keyboards
• Matt Clifford - keyboards and french horn
• Lisa Fischer - backing Vocals
• Bernard Fowler - backing Vocals
• Cindy Mizelle - backing vocals
• The Uptown Horns - brass
• The Kick Horns - brass on "Rock and a Hard Place"
• Eric Clapton - guitar on "Little Red Rooster"
• Tessa Niles - backing Vocals on "Sex Drive"
• Katie Kisson - backing Vocals on "Sex Drive"

[edit] Miscellanea

Interestingly, the Rolling Stones lifted a female fan's famous request of "Paint It Black... Paint It Black... Paint It Black, you devil(s)" from their second live album, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! (1970), and included it on this album, between the tracks "Ruby Tuesday" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want."

[edit] Charts

Album

Singles