“Emotional Rescue” by The Rolling Stones

The title track of the Rolling Stones' 1980 album Emotional Rescue finds Mick Jagger up in falsetto from the start, on a Jagger–Richards song he wrote on electric piano and pitched somewhere between Bee Gees disco and Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up". The lineup was as unusual as the vocal: Ronnie Wood on bass, Bill Wyman on synthesizer, Charlie Watts on drums, Jagger and Ian Stewart on electric piano, and Bobby Keys adding saxophone. The Glimmer Twins produced, with Chris Kimsey engineering.

Behind the slinky groove, the band was fraying. A cleaner Keith Richards wanted a say in the business decisions Jagger had handled for a decade, the two rarely shared the studio, and Jagger worked in the early evening while Richards wandered in late at night.

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