The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ fifth studio album Blood Sugar Sex Magik was released on 24 September 1991. The album produced the hit singles Under the Bridge, Give It Away, Suck My Kiss, Breaking the Girl, and If You Have to Ask. Blood Sugar Sex Magik propelled the Red Hot Chili Peppers into worldwide popularity and critical acclaim.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik is recognised as an influential and seminal component of the alternative rock explosion of the early 1990s, with Steve Huey of AllMusic calling it ‘probably the best album the Chili Peppers will ever make’.