Released on 29 August 1989, "Steel Wheels" was the 19th., studio album and greatest comeback at the time by legendary British rockers, The Rolling Stone, the album 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.
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, the album spawned four singles "Mixed Emotions" and "Rock And a Hard Place", "Almost Hear You Sigh", & "Terrifying". Recording in Montserrat and London during the spring, Steel Wheels was designed to emulate a classic Rolling Stones sound.
According to critics back then, the album encapsulates the energy, ambivalence, recriminations, attempted rapprochement and psychological one-upmanship altogether on Steel Wheels testify that the Stones are right in the element that has historically spawned their best music and once again generated an album that will have the world dancing to deeply troubling, unresolved emotions. The Stones sound good, and Mick and Keith both get off a killer ballad "Almost Hear You Sigh" and "Slipping Away", respectively, another killer ballad as "Fool To Cry" and of course the old-fashioned "Continental Drift", the album reinforces with their best singles "Sad, Sad", Sad", and the killer tracks "Rock And A Hard Place" 6 "Mixed Emotions" making the record feels a little bit longer. Altough it doesn't make for a great Stones album, but it's not bad, and it feels like a comeback – which it was supposed to, after all.
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