While everyone recognizes the austere heights the Rolling Stones achieved throughout their time together, the 1990s marked a period of uncertainty for the iconic rock band.
After a turbulent period in the 1980s characterized by middling album releases and severe friction among its band members (most especially Mick Jagger and Keith Richards), the Stones managed to secure their comeback with the 1994 album release, Voodoo Lounge.
A return to form for the influential British rock band, Voodoo Lounge ended up becoming one of the Stones’ most critically well-received albums of the ’90s. Perhaps most tellingly, it also ended up winning the inaugural Grammy Award for Best Rock Album in 1995.
While it’s easy to dismiss the album’s title as a colorful arrangement of nonsense words similar to certain past releases from the Stones, Voodoo Lounge actually pays homage to a stray kitten Keith Richards found in Barbados, giving the album its unique name.
Interestingly, one famous photo showing Richards with the kitten in question appears online, along with a brief explanation about how the kitten ended up gaining the name Voodoo in the first place.
“Keith Richards in Barbados, holding the stray kitten he rescued from a pipe during a tropical downpour while he and Mick Jagger were writing a new Stones album,” the image’s description reads. “Keith named him Voodoo, for the luck that kept him alive, and the terrace became Voodoo’s Lounge, with signs Keith put up himself. The cat gave the album its name: Voodoo Lounge, released in July 1994.”
As it happened, Voodoo the cat’s good luck ended up rubbing off on the Stones themselves, with Voodoo Lounge ending up selling remarkably well, gaining Gold or Platinum status in several countries around the world. In the U.K., the songs “Love Is Strong” and “You Got Me Rocking” even peaked at Nos. 14 and 23 in the UK, respectively.
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