It's tempting to call "Black and Blue" the Rolling Stones' first bad album. Yet that judgment collapses too much complexity into a single word. Bad, after all, implies failure, and "Black and Blue" ...

The album spent four non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in May and June of 1976. The Stones released two singles from the record, the ballad “Fool to Cry” and the funky “Hot Stuff.” ...

Featuring audition jams with Jeff Beck and Harvey Mandel, as well as rare tracks and concert recordings, a new expanded reissue of the band's 1976 album gives us a 360 look at a crucial turning point ...