Rolling Stones Perform Emotional Rescue For First Time Ever For 50 and Counting

After 33 years The Rolling Stone have finally played their 1980 hit song ‘Emotional Rescue’ for the very first time in concert on opening night of the 50 and Counting tour.

Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones, Noise11, photo

Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones (photo by Ros O'Gorman)

‘Emotional Rescue’ was a number 3 hit in America for The Stones and also reached number 9 in the UK. Keith Richard was not a fan of the disco based song and it never made a Stones setlist until now.

The Rolling Stones played the first show of their 2013 50 and Counting tour Friday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Also in the setlist was ‘Factory Girl’, performed for the first time since 1997.

Guests were Gwen Stefani joining the Stones for ‘Wild Horses’ and Keith Urban for ‘Respectable’.

One time member Mick Taylor will also make a guest appearance at each show. He performed ‘Midnight Rambler’ with the band.

The setlist for The Rolling Stones, May 3, Staples Center, Los Angeles was:

Get Off My Cloud (from December’s Children and Everybody’s, 1965)
The Last Time (from Out Of Our Heads, 1965)
Its Only Rock N Roll (But I Like It) (from Its Only Rock and Roll, 1974)
Paint It Black (from Aftermath, 1966)
Gimme Shelter (from Let It Bleed, 1969)
Wild Horses (with Gwen Stefani) (from Sticky Fingers, 1971)
Factory Girl (from Beggars Banquet, 1968)
Emotional Rescue (from Emotional Rescue, 1980)
Respectable (with Keith Urban) (from Some Girls, 1978)
Doom and Gloom (from GRRR, 2012)
One More Shot (from GRRR, 2012)
Honky Tonk Women (single, 1969)
Before They Make You Run (from Some Girls, 1978)
Happy (from Exile On Main Street, 1972)
Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor) (from Let It Bleed, 1969)
Miss You (from Some Girls, 1978)
Start Me Up (from Tattoo You, 1981)
Tumbling Dice (from Exile On Main Street, 1972)
Brown Sugar (from Sticky Fingers, 1971)
Sympathy For The Devil (from Beggars Banquet, 1968)