Rolling Stones: here is the reprint of “black and blue” with unpublished
It is now official: the Rolling Stones will celebrate the fifty -year of “Black and Blue”, their iconic album of 1976, with a special reprint that will contain in addition to the songs originally inlcusi in the album also of the unpublished. After the sibylline previews of the past few days, Mick Jagger and members have now shared all the details of the project, through their official social channels.
The reprint of “Black and Blue” will arrive in stores on November 14 in the form of a mega-co-fountain, a “super deluxe box set” that Jagger and members define as “full of unpublished recordings”. The box will also contain a blu-ray with rare performance movies, a hundred pages book with exclusive photographs and a replica of the 1976 tour poster.
Today at 5 pm on the band’s YouTube channel the new video of “Shame, Shame, Shame” will be revealed in preview::
“Black and Blue” is a central record in the Rolling Stones discography, for more than one reason. It was the first record recorded after the release of Mick Taylor. During the sessions several guitarists were tried (Jeff Beck, Rory Gallagher, Harvey Mandel, Wayne Perkins), but in the end Ronnie Wood was chosen, who entered the band permanently. The album is therefore a document of the period of passage and research of the new “Sound Stones”. After the great success of “It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll” (1974), the album represented the beginning of a crucial period, which will lead to the triumph of “Some Girls” (1978). At the time, only the first single extracted from the album, “Fool to Cry”, had great success, while the criticism was divided. Even those few critics who promoted the album did it with warm judgments. The reprint will aim to re -evaluate the album.
