RECORDINGS | OPINION: Rolling Stones “Black and Blue” — revisiting the album that marked their mid-’70s identity crisis

Once dismissed as the Stones’ first “bad” record, “Black and Blue” now plays like a document of mid-’70s uncertainty — part ...
New Republic

Imani Perry’s Blue Notes

The story goes that the lyrics to “Black and Blue,” the jazz standard popularized by Louis Armstrong, were written at gunpoint. In 1929, the songwriter Andy Rafaz (born Andriamanantena Paul ...
American Songwriter

Mick Jagger Reveals Cool Details About The Rolling Stones’ Cover of a Disco Hit Featured on Deluxe ‘Black and Blue’ Reissue

In a message on his social media pages, Jagger wrote, “We first tried out [‘Shame, Shame, Shame’] around the time of Black and Blue… it was fun to return to it now and add something to it!” The post ...