BLINDED
BY LOVE
THE ROLLING
STONES
SONGWRITERS: KEITH RICHARDS & MICK JAGGER
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: STEEL WHELES
LABEL: ROLLING STONES
GENRE: HARD ROCK
YEAR: 1989
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in
London in 1962. Diverging from the pop rock of the early 1960s, the Rolling Stones pioneered the gritty,
heavier-driven sound that came to define hard rock.
Their first stable line-up was vocalist Mick Jagger,
multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones,
guitarist Keith Richards, drummer
Charlie Watts, and
bassist Bill Wyman. During their formative years
Jones was the primary leader: he assembled the band, named it, and drove their
sound and image. After Andrew Loog Oldham became the group's manager in 1963, he encouraged them to write
their own songs. Jagger and Richards became the primary creative force behind the band, alienating Jones,
who developed a drug addiction that interfered with his ability to contribute
meaningfully.
Rooted in blues and early rock and roll,
the Rolling Stones started out playing covers and were at the forefront of
the British Invasion in 1964, also being identified with the youthful and
rebellious counterculture
of the 1960s. They then found greater success
with their own material as "(I Can't Get
No) Satisfaction" (1965), "Get Off of My
Cloud" (1965) and "Paint It Black"
(1966) became international No. 1 hits. Aftermath (1966) – their first entirely original album – is considered the
most important of their formative records. In 1967, they had the double-sided
hit "Ruby Tuesday"/"Let's Spend
the Night Together" and experimented with psychedelic rock on Their Satanic
Majesties Request. They went back to their roots
with such hits as "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
(1968) and "Honky Tonk Women"
(1969), and albums such as Beggars Banquet (1968), featuring "Sympathy for
the Devil", and Let It Bleed(1969),
featuring "You Can't
Always Get What You Want" and "Gimme Shelter". Let
It Bleed was the first of five consecutive Nº 1 albums in the UK.
Steel Wheels is the 19th British (and 21st
American) studio album by British rock band the Rolling Stones.
Released on 29 August 1989, it was the final album of new material that the
band would record for Columbia Records.
Heralded as a major comeback upon its
release, Steel Wheels is notable for the patching up of the working
relationship between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, a
reversion to a more classic style of music and the launching of the band's
biggest world tour to date. It is also the final full-length studio album to involve long-time
bassist Bill Wyman, preceding the announcement of his
departure in January 1993. Wyman's final tenure with the
band would be on two studio tracks for the 1991 album Flashpoint.
Steel Wheels was also the first album not to feature former member and frequent
contributor on piano Ian Stewart,
who died shortly before the release of their previous album Dirty Work. It was
produced by Richards and Jagger, along with Chris Kimsey,
who had previously produced the Stones' 1983 Undercover.
After the relative disappointment of their
prior two albums, Steel Wheels was a hit, reaching multi-platinum status in the
United States, Top 5 status in numerous markets around the world, and spawning
two hit singles: "Mixed Emotions,"
which peaked at No. 1 in Canada and Nº 5 in the United States, and "Rock and a
Hard Place", the band's last Top-40
hit in the US. Critics were generally lukewarm towards the album, exemplified
by Stephen
Thomas Erlewine: 'It doesn't make for a great
Stones album, but it's not bad, and it feels like a comeback.'
The queen of the Nile
She laid on her throne
And she was drifting downstream
On a barge that was burnished with gold
Royal purple the sails
So sweetly perfumed
And poor Mark Antony's
Senses were drowned
And his future was doomed
He was blinded by
love
The Philistines paid
For Samson's blind rage
The secrets that two lovers share
Should never have been betrayed
He was blinded by
love
He was blinded by
love
Now it's no use crying
or weeping
You better lock up your soul for safe keeping
Promise me
The poor Prince of
Wales
He gave up his crown
All for the trivial pursuit of
A parvenu second-hand lady
So lovers beware
If you lose your heart
Careful now, don't lose your mind
Don't mortgage your soul to a stranger
Don't be blinded by
love
Don't be blinded by
love
Blinded by love
Blinded by love.
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