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Flashpoint is a live album by British rock band The Rolling Stones. It was recorded in 1989 and 1990 on the Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour and released in 1991. It was the first live album by the group since 1982's Still Life. It was recorded using binaural recording. This gives the effect that the concert audience is behind the home listener. The audience cheer track was taken from the Rolling Stones' 1970 live album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!, complete with an audience member shouting out a request: "'Paint It Black', 'Paint It Black', you devil". The two studio tracks on the album were the last for bassist and long-time member Bill Wyman as a Rolling Stone. History Recorded across North America, Europe and Japan, Flashpoint is also the first Rolling Stones release of the 1990s and, unlike previous live sets, includes two 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 also includes lesser-known songs like "Factory Girl" from 1968's Beggars Banquet and "Little Red Rooster", originally a No. 1 UK hit single in 1964, featured here with special guest Eric Clapton on guitar. Bill Wyman's departure As Flashpoint was The Rolling Stones' final release under their contract with Sony Music, the band signed a new lucrative long-term worldwide deal with Virgin Records in 1991, with the exception of Bill Wyman. After thirty years with the band, the fifty-five-year-old Wyman decided that he had other interests he wanted to pursue and felt that, considering the size of the recently completed Steel Wheels project and tour, it was fitting to bow out at that time. Although he would not officially announce his departure until January 1993 – during the interim the rest of the band had 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, eighteen years after he joined the band.[citation needed] Release Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic 2/5 stars[1] Entertainment Weekly F[2] Los Angeles Times 3/4 stars[3] MusicHound Rock 1/5[4] Rolling Stone 4/5 stars[5] The Rolling Stone Album Guide 3/5 stars[6] Tom Hull B+[7] Flashpoint was released in April 1991 and was generally well-received, with "Highwire" becoming a rock radio hit, and managed to reach No. 6 in the UK and No. 16 in the US, where it went gold. In 1998, Flashpoint was remastered and reissued by Virgin Records, and again in 2010 by Universal Music. SHOW LINKS AS MENTIONED Manchester Blues and Gospel Televised gig with Muddy Waters and Rosetta Tharpe, 1964: https://youtu.be/y9JeI3SWH7k History: https://www.ukblues.org/history-of-br... https://musicdayz.com/fact/147565/ Robert Johnson graphic novel, Love In Vain: https://www.amazon.com.au/Love-Vain-J... White Bicycles, by Joe Boyd: https://www.amazon.com.au/White-Bicyc...

 

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Miss You (2009 Mix)

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The Rolling Stones

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Keith Richards, Mick Jagger

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