Mick Jagger gets candid about the Rolling Stones’ legacy.
The “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” singer, who is set to release a new album with the band in October, said that while the Rolling Stones currently have no plans to sell their post-1971 catalog — which includes Black and blue and Tattoo you — but you have some ideas about what to do with it in the end.
In a new interview with WSJ magazine, the 80-year-old rock legend said the roughly half a billion dollars they would get from the sale could be given to their heirs, but “kids don’t need $500 million to live well. Come.”
So he said “maybe” the money could go to charity instead. “You might do some good in the world,” Jagger added.
Meanwhile, he and fellow band members Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood are adding another album to their discography with the upcoming release titled Hackney Diamondswhich is the band’s first album of original music after 18 years.
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Mick Jagger on the cover for October 2023 WSJ magazine.
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Mick Jagger wanted ‘deadline’ pressure to finish new ‘Hackney Diamonds’ album: ‘You’re Not Doing Take 117’
Jagger noted that WSJ that the album features several guests, including Paul McCartney on bass, Elton John and Stevie Wonder on piano, and Lady Gaga, who sang vocals on their song “Sweet Sound of Heaven” while working in the same studio as the band during one session .
Jagger revealed that he put pressure on the group to keep the album on track, saying: “What I want to do is write some songs, go into the studio and finish the album by Valentine’s Day. That was just the day I got picked out of a hat — but everyone he can remember him. And then we’ll go on tour with him, like we used to.”
When Richards, 79, retorted, Jagger said he told him: “’It might never happen, Keith, but that’s the goal. We’ll have a fucking deadline.’ ”
“Otherwise we’ll just go into the studio, for two weeks, and come out again, and then six weeks later, we’ll be back there. Like, no. Let’s make a deadline,” he added.
In the end, the deadline pressure worked. The band recorded the core tracks in four weeks, missing their Valentine’s Day target by just a few weeks.
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Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on September 6, 2023 in London.
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The Rolling Stones and Jimmy Fallon team up to announce the band’s new album, ‘Hackney Diamonds’
The Rolling Stones announced the new album with Jimmy Fallon at a press conference in London earlier this month, which was streamed live on YouTube for fans around the world.
The band announced the album’s release date – October 20 – and that their first single is called “Angry”.
“We wouldn’t have released this album if we didn’t really like it,” Jagger said at the event. “We have to say we’re pretty pleased. We’re not big, but we hope you like it.”
In an emotional moment, the trio also touched on what it was like recording the album without their longtime drummer Charlie Watts, who passed away in August 2021 at the age of 80.
“Since Charlie left, it’s different, he’s number four,” Richards said. “It’s missed, it’s worse. Of course it’s incredibly missed.”
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