The Rolling Stones are back with a new LP and some of the inspirations behind the tracks make for interesting
You can’t always get what you want, even if you’re Mick Jagger. The Rolling Stones frontman, 82, has admitted one of his new songs on their album is about a relationship ending suddenly and without explanation.
Speaking with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe Jagger opened up about the real life inspiration behind the Back in Your Life. Jagger said: “I just came up with these lyrics really quickly. It’s a classic story of meeting a woman and then you have a very quick fling with her and then she ghosts you. So that’s the story.”
When host and DJ Lowe asked if Jagger was speaking from experience he replied: ”Well obviously! Someone asked me this question the other day. They said, ‘Well, at your age, you know,'” he began. I’ve got memories I can draw on.”
A shocked Lowe then added: “Who the f*** is ghosting Mick Jagger?”
Jagger mentioned he was drawing on experiences as he has not dated in a good while, having been romantically linked to ballet dancer Melanie Hamrick since 2014. But before that he was married twice and had a reputation in his younger days for being a ladies man who liked other date. The biography, Mick, written by Christopher Andersen, estimated he has slept with 4,000 women whilst on the road with the Stones.
The band are back in the spotlight with the release of their album Foreign Tongues today which also features some big name cameo performers like Sir Paul McCartney and Robert Smith from The Cure.
Elsewhere on the album other songs like Ringing Hollow are about more serious subjects like the state of America.
Jagger said: It’s about America. It’s a love song to America. It’s given me a lot and it’s admiration, but it’s also like seeing the faults and the problems that we’re going through in this country. And so that I was addressing that and I had several songs that were addressing that theme and I chose this one because it wasn’t quite as on the nose as the others and it had more subtlety, I thought, and so I discarded the other ones.”
And even though this album is only just finished, it sounds like The Stones already have ideas for another one in the future.
Guitarist Keith Richards told Lowe: “I have no problem with that. Anytime the whistle blows, I’m there, I’m up for it. Always got a few songs in the bag and I’m sure Mick does, he never stops and so I mean making that’s what I do, so you’re automatically thinking about what you’re gonna do next and so it’s sort of there in the making.”
Mick and Keith, who co-write almost all the Stones songs, no longer go into the studio empty handed and already have stories roughed out to save time. Mick comes with lyrics he has started by singing into his phone, Keith has rifts and chord sequences roughed out to show his friend and co-writer of 60 years.
On how it begins, Keith recently said on the band’s podcast: “It’s usually thousands of miles apart and then we get together for a day or two and say ‘what have you got?’. We’ve gotten so used to it after all these years, actually working apart. As long as we get together in a little studio.”
* Rolling Stones album Foreign Tongues is out now. The full interview with Zane Lowe is on Apple Music.
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