Jagger Sends Friendly Fire Back To McCartney as new song hits N°1

By editorial board on April 24, 2020

The Rolling Stones achieved another milestone in their decades-spanning rock music career by earning their first no. 1 hit on iTunes with the coronavirus-era song, “Living in a Ghost Town.”

One day later, “Living in a Ghost Town” sits atop iTunes’ song chart, well above recent efforts by Travis Scott, The Weeknd, Drake, Megan Thee Stallion and Justin Bieber.

The Stones haven’t charted since their 1981 hit “Start Me Up.” But now, in the streaming era, the band that was founded in 1962, has hit it big once again. It is also the band’s first original song since their two tracks from 2012, “Doom and Gloom” and “One More Shot.”

Asked to describe what the coronavirus lockdown has been like for him, Jagger counted himself lucky that he's in a business where he can lean on a creative outlet and keep rehearsing for the time when The Stones can hit the road again, tinker with songs like "Ghost Town" and write new music.(Billboard)

It has, of course, been 15 years since the last original Stones album, and Jagger said part of that is chalked up to him wanting the follow-up to 2005's A Bigger Bang to not merely be good, but "great." Richards said they've got five to six songs laid down already, which have a "real soul feel about it for some reason without anyone intending to."

Jagger also talked about of comments made by Paul McCartney on Howard Stern's SiriusXM show recently about the decades-long Stones vs. Beatles debate, his feelings about which band is top of the pops. Calling McCartney a "sweetheart," and initially declining to take the bait, he then explained why The Stones are superior, of course.

"The big difference, though, is and, sort of slightly seriously, is that The Rolling Stones [have been] a big concert band in other decades and other areas when The Beatles never even did an arena tour, Madison Square Garden with a decent sound system," he said. "They broke up before that business started, the touring business for real. But it didn't start till the end of the '60s. The first tour like that for us was 1969 that was real sound, your own sound systems, your own stage, your own stage surface. Touring that around America, going to hockey, basketball arenas, looking all the same size. So that business started in 1969 and The Beatles never experienced that."

He did attend a "great" gig they did at New York's Shea Stadium in 1965, but of course The Stones have been filling arenas and stadiums ever since. "One band is a... unbelievably luckily still playing in stadiums and then the other band doesn't exist."

“So many countries we haven’t played. We’ve only been to India once, we’ve only been to Africa once, so most of the time we stay on the tried and true, the same as everybody else. There’s lots of places on the planet we haven’t played. It doesn’t stop me from going there, but playing there is another thing.”

He said regarding touring at his age, “I don’t do it all the time, [like] 12 months a year. When you’re young, that’s what you do. [Today I] spend three or four months on the road in a year and that seems to be quite a good balance. Even after the surgery, i feel quite the same as always"

“I've been rehearsing a lot lately in the last weeks … This morning [I did] a bit of gym. Nothing crazy. Then I go to the show rehearsal with the rest of the band.”

 

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