is the number of different Rolling Stones vinyl 7"s* issued worldwide, as of Thursday 20 June 2013.
* 1723 releases + 2390 variations.
You can't judge a cover by looking at its number!
An obscure pressing of the 1980' single 'Emotional Rescue' from Zimbabwe!
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A nice independent and recent initiative is 'Discografia Portuguesa A 45 RPM', a 100% Portuguese 7"x7" book by Abel Rosa, Jorge Nogueira and Pedro Freitas Branco on the local Stones 7" discography. Read more / order here.
On the web side, the Rolling Stones collectors cave is a free forum dedicated to collecting the band's vinyl and memorabilia. Launched by Oz thorough collectors Peter Hinds and Rob Macafferty about 2 months ago, it already offers most interesting threads documented with numerous pictures.
What the fake!? New technos enable one to manufacture fantasy sleeves which unfortunately often find their way on Ebay or other sites and fool amateurs. This page will help you identifying what's real and what's not.
Stones7.com is a site strictly dedicated to the band's 7" singles and EPs worldwide from 1963 to nowadays. Nearly daily updated, it has been the most serious and complete reference in this field since its creation in 2000. More about it here.
Visitors can discover and browse freely parts of this site, including
one country's discography every new week [currently 'Venezuela'] and the single of the day [currently 'Emotional Rescue' - actually picked according to its release date].
For a little annual fee, members only have full access to all countries discographies, song by song browsing, price guide, and in-depth datas.
The Rolling Stones second 7" EP Five By Five was reissued in mono for the Record Store Day [April 20, 2013] both in the EU and the US.
'Doom And Gloom' was the last studio single by the band, recorded in Paris in summer 2012 and was released as a 10" on November 23, 2012.
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'Emotional Rescue' was released as a 7" single in the UK exactly 33 years ago on June 20, 1980, where it peaked at #9.
Its US counterpart, released at the same time, reached #3.
Recorded between June and October 1979, 'Emotional Rescue' was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and is a disco-influenced number, somewhat similar to the band's 1978 hit 'Miss You'. The song is notable as one of the earliest songs by the group to show the growing rift between main songwriters Jagger and Richards. Although Richards plays guitar and added backing vocals towards the end of this track, he is noted to not have liked the direction in which Jagger was trying to take the band with disco-like compositions, although this may have been exaggerated by the press and Richards' hard-rock-oriented image. The song is based around a bass line played by Ronnie Wood. Also notable is Jagger's singing of the song in a false... [+]
