Flashpoint (album)

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Flashpoint
Flashpoint cover
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(s) Chris Kimsey
and The Glimmer Twins
Professional reviews
The Rolling Stones chronology
Steel Wheels
(1989)		 Flashpoint
(1991)		 Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones
(1993)


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

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[edit] History

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" (a comment on the Gulf War) and "Sex Drive".

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, Ron 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
  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
  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] Miscellanea

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

[edit] Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1991 UK Top 75 Albums 6
1991 The Billboard 200 16

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1991 "Highwire" The Billboard Hot 100 57
1991 "Highwire" Mainstream Rock Tracks 1
1991 "Highwire" Modern Rock Tracks 28
1991 "Highwire" Hot 100 Airplay 70
1991 "Highwire" UK Top 75 Singles 29
1991 "Ruby Tuesday" UK Top 75 Singles 59
1991 "Sex Drive" Mainstream Rock Tracks 40
Albums by The Rolling Stones
U.K. studio albums and EPs 1964-1967: The Rolling Stones (EP) | The Rolling Stones | Five by Five (EP) | The Rolling Stones No. 2 | Out of Our Heads | Aftermath | Between the Buttons
U.S. albums 1964-1967: England's Newest Hitmakers | 12 X 5 | The Rolling Stones, Now! | Out of Our Heads | December's Children (And Everybody's) | Aftermath | Between the Buttons | Flowers
Studio albums, 1967-present: Their Satanic Majesties Request | Beggars Banquet | Let It Bleed | Sticky Fingers | Exile on Main St. | Goats Head Soup | It's Only Rock'n Roll | Black and Blue | Some Girls | Emotional Rescue | Tattoo You | Undercover | Dirty Work | Steel Wheels | Voodoo Lounge | Bridges to Babylon | A Bigger Bang
Live albums got LIVE if you want it! (EP) | Got Live if You Want It! | Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert | Love You Live | "Still Life" (American Concert 1981) | Flashpoint | Stripped | No Security | Live Licks
Compilations Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (US) | Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (UK) | Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) | Made in the Shade | Sucking in the Seventies | Rewind (1971-1984) | Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones | Forty Licks | Rarities 1971-2003
Post-contract ABKCO albums: Hot Rocks 1964-1971 | More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) | Metamorphosis | Singles Collection: The London Years| The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus | Singles 1963-1965 | Singles 1965-1967 | Singles 1968-1971
Miscellaneous Jamming with Edward
The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger | Keith Richards | Charlie Watts | Ron Wood
Former members
Brian Jones | Bill Wyman | Mick Taylor | Ian Stewart | Dick Taylor
See also
Chuck Leavell | Darryl Jones | Andrew Loog Oldham | Allen Klein
Related articles
Discography | The Glimmer Twins | Nanker Phelge | Rolling Stones Records | Rock and Roll Circus
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