![]() ![]() And with its broader artistic and emotional scope, BSSM revealed that the Red Hot Chili Peppers were more than just four rowdy guys with socks on their cocks who wanted to (in the words of a song from 1987’s The Uplift Mofo Party Plan) “Party on Your Pussy.” The first RHCP album for their new label, Warner Bros., and their first with producer Rick Rubin, BSSM spawned four major hits – “Give It Away,” “Under the Bridge,” “Breaking the Girl” and “Suck My Kiss” – and reached Number Three on the Billboard 200 it would go on to sell over 13 million copies worldwide, 7 million of them in the U.S. Mother’s Milk, their fourth and final album for EMI, had garnered some radio and MTV exposure thanks to a rocked-up cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground,” but the 1989 LP – their most commercially successful to date – rose no higher than Number 52 on the Billboard 200.īut with 1991’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik, the Chili Peppers pole-vaulted to superstardom. funk-rock quartet still hadn’t managed to transcend their “cult band” status by the time the Nineties rolled round. ![]() ![]() Released 25 years ago this week, Blood Sugar Sex Magik marked a major career turning point for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.ĭespite years of toiling in college-rock trenches (and weathering multiple lineup changes along the way, including the fatal 1988 heroin overdose of founding guitarist Hillel Slovak), the raunchy L.A. ![]()
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