"Keith played the bass, I played the keyboards and bass and drums. Because Charlie Watts (the only other original band member) was recovering from cancer, it meant that for the first couple of weeks of recording, the Stones were reduced to Jagger and Richards. "It's all about having the songs." In the main, Jagger and Richards wrote the new songs separately and came together to refine them. I ask Jagger if he thought he and Richards would be able to write together again after all the bad blood. They are a temperamental odd couple, loving, catfighting, forever on the brink of divorce, but destined to see it through to the bitter end. Over the years, Keith Richards has called him plenty worse: selfish, greedy, mean, shallow and, just recently (and apparently much to Jagger's annoyance), modestly endowed. Bill Wyman, the former Stones bass player, once called him "a nice bunch of blokes". When not playing the legendary sex thimble or ageing roué, he enjoys approximating the English aristocrat. On the side of a sofa is a hat, a white straw boater. Jagger is still vain enough to wear the tight, too-short T-shirt that shows off a tummy a teenage anorexic would be proud of. We could be back in 1964, him singing The Last Time on Ready Steady Go, jiggling hips and lips, louche and provocative in a way no Englishman had been before.īut there is also something Dorian Gray about the waist. There is something miraculous about it - a testament to his drive, his obsessive workouts, his ego. As he does so I can't help staring at his body. He pours me a glass of wine and talks about the cricket, one of his great loves. We meet in a Toronto school where the Stones are busy rehearsing for their tour. At the same time, it is remarkably unchanged - those exaggerated features, the leering sensuality, that pornographic beauty. His face is more rock than human - lined with great vertical cracks like so much erosion. Surprisingly, Jagger, who has spent a lifetime shying away from the personal, has made an album verging on the confessional. The new album, A Bigger Bang is a pretty good record, and a couple of the songs could become mini-classics. They had no new songs worthy of their name. Sure, the band could still tour and clock up record box offices every time, but they were dinosaurs, the Strolling Bones, a circus act, trading off their back catalogue and collective nostalgia. But it has been the best part of a quarter of a century since the last decent Stones album. Their blend of hard rock, country, blues, and balladry, of priapic posturing and shocking tenderness, remains unique. 77 selling 11,846 copies during the first week.In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Stones made some of the greatest albums ever: Beggar's Banquet, Sticky Fingers, Let it Bleed, Exile on Main Street. 57 with sales of nearly 4,000 copies and in the American chart at No.
The album debuted in the British chart at No. He also re-launched his web site with audio, video, photos and more information about this compilation and his solo work in general.
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Jagger has promoted the album through interviews including a special for Rolling Stone, a comprehensive Q&A with fans on the BBC web site and TV appearances. The song was also released as a promo single with various remixes, and reached the Top 20 on Billboard's Hot Dance Singles chart in early 2008.Ī special edition with DVD was also released with more than 72 minutes of content, including an extensive interview with Mick Jagger from early/mid-2007, nine videos, and extras. The version on Very Best is remixed by producer Ashley Beadle. Jagger had sketched it out (with his daughter Karis Jagger on backing vocals), but then decided the track didn't fit with the rest of the album.
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