Mick Jagger for WSJ. Magazine.Photo:JUERGEN TELLER for WSJ. Magazine
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Mick Jaggeris getting candid about theRolling Stones’ legacy.
The“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”singer, who is set to put out a new album with the band in October, said that while the Rolling Stones have no plans right now to sell their post-1971 catalog — which includesBlack and BlueandTattoo You— but have some ideas of what to do with it eventually.
In anew interview withWSJ. Magazine, the 80-year-old rock legend said they could give the approximately half a billion dollars they would get from selling it to their heirs, but “the children don’t need $500 million to live well. Come on.”
So he said that “maybe” the money could go to charity instead. “You maybe do some good in the world,” added Jagger.
In the meantime, he and fellow bandmembersKeith RichardsandRonnie Woodare notching another album in their discography with their upcoming release calledHackney Diamonds, which is the band’s first album of original music in 18 years.
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Mick Jagger on the October 2023 cover ofWSJ Magazine.JUERGEN TELLER for WSJ. Magazine
Jagger noted toWSJthat there are a number of guests featured on the album includingPaul McCartneywho contributed bass,Elton JohnandStevie Wonderon the piano andLady Gaga, who contributed vocals to their song “Sweet Sound of Heaven,” while working in the same studio as the band during one session.
Mick Jagger for WSJ. Magazine.JUERGEN TELLER for WSJ. Magazine
When Richards, 79, pushed back, Jagger said he told him, “‘It may never happen, Keith, but that’s the aim. We’re going to have a f—ing deadline.' "
“Otherwise, we’re just going to go into the studio, for two weeks, and come out again, and then six weeks later, we’re going to go back in there. Like, no. Let’s make a deadline,” he added.
Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on Sept. 6, 2023, in London.Jo Hale/Redferns
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The Rolling Stonesannounced the new albumwithJimmy Fallonat a press event in London earlier this month, which was live streamed on YouTube for fans around the world.
The band announced the release date for the album — Oct. 20 — and that their first single is called “Angry.”
“We wouldn’t have put out this album out if we didn’t really like it,” said Jagger at the event. “We must say that we are quite pleased with it. We’re not big headed but we hope you like it.”
In an emotional moment, the trio also touched on what it was like to record the album without their longtime drummerCharlie Watts, who died in August 2021 at age 80.
“Ever since Charlie’s gone it’s different, he’s number four,” Richards said. “He’s missing, he’s up there. Of course he’s missed incredibly.”
source: people.com
