Black And Blue  by The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones in the mid-1970s are going through an identity crisis as they see that musical trends are changing at a pace that perhaps they themselves cannot keep up with. Their thirteenth album titled Black And Blue musically reflects exactly what the members of the Rolling Stones feel, especially the songwriting duo Jagger/Richards, as the two of them are trying to follow rather than lead the musical trends, as they used to do.

Thus, Black And Blue is essentially an album with many musical faces that confuses the listener. Reggae, funk, disco, soul, and somewhere in the background, a little rock. The result certainly puzzled or even disappointed the band's fans, but now after so many years have passed, it seems to be an honest attempt at renewal, which could not function at 100% of the degree that the band would have liked.

The 1,000,000 copies in the U.S. and the 100,000 in Britain probably did not fully satisfy the Rolling Stones.