The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You (Remastered 2021) (1981/2021) [Official Digital Download]

40 years after it’s original release, Tattoo You returns with an all-new 2021 master. Tattoo You is the 16th British and 18th American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 24 August 1981 by Rolling Stones Records. The album is mostly composed of studio outtakes recorded during the 1970s, and contains one of the band's most well-known songs, "Start Me Up", which hit number two on the US Billboard singles charts.

In the wake of the release of Emotional Rescue in 1980, the future of the Rolling Stones seemed in the balance. Sure, they’d survived the wild 1960s and even wilder ’70s, but as the new decade dawned, they were in uncharted territory. No rock and roll band had lasted nearly 20 years. Still, plans were afoot.

With preparations proceeding for a massive tour of the United States at the end of 1981 and another the following year in Europe, a new album was urgently required. But the band’s future was anything but certain. Reflecting on the relationships between the various Stones during the Tattoo You period, Mick says, ‘The difficulty in growing up in a rock and roll band, I think, is that you start with this gang of people and, as anyone knows that’s been in a gang, that gang simply can’t last forever.’

The Stones, however, were determined to carry on. With everyone on a much-needed break after the completion of Emotional Rescue, but with an album owed to the powers that be, the band hit on a novel approach to make it. Chris Kimsey – a veteran of Stones sessions – relates how he knew that some of the band’s outtakes from the 1970s had the potential to be powerful masters. He was tasked with uncovering the best of whatever might be buried in the band’s rich archive.

‘For Tattoo You,’ recalls Ron Wood, ‘we realised that there was a lot of great music that we had recorded in the past that had never been released, particularly from all the material we had amassed during the Some Girls and Emotional Rescue sessions’.

TRACKLIST

1. The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up (Remastered 2021)
2. The Rolling Stones - Hang Fire (Remastered 2021)
3. The Rolling Stones - Slave (Remastered 2021)
4. The Rolling Stones - Little T&A (Remastered 2021)
5. The Rolling Stones - Black Limousine (Remastered 2021)
6. The Rolling Stones - Neighbours (Remastered 2021)
7. The Rolling Stones - Worried About You (Remastered 2021)
8. The Rolling Stones - Tops (Remastered 2021)
9. The Rolling Stones - Heaven (Remastered 2021)
10. The Rolling Stones - No Use In Crying (Remastered 2021)
11. The Rolling Stones - Waiting On A Friend (Remastered 2021)



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