Sir Mick Jagger rewrote a part of ‘Living in a Ghost Town’ as a result of he felt it was ”too darkish”.
The Rolling Stones launched the shock new single on Thursday (23.04.20) and although the track’s messages resonate with the present state of the world as a result of coronavirus pandemic, it was truly recorded greater than a yr in the past, however had a couple of small adjustments made with the intention to make it much more becoming for this time.
Mick informed Beats 1’s Zane Lowe: ”It wasn’t written for now however it was written about being in a spot which was lively, after which now there’s all bereft of life, so to talk.
”And once I went again to what I’d written initially lyrically, it was all filled with plague phrases and issues like that.
”I by no means truly used that, however it was all there. It was very near the occasions that we’re residing via now.
”But Keith Richards and I each had the concept we must always launch it. But I mentioned, ‘Well I’ve obtained to rewrite it’.
”Some of it’s not going to work and a few of it was a bit bizarre and a bit too darkish. So I barely rewrote it. I did not need to rewrite very a lot to be sincere. It’s very a lot how I initially did it. I used to be simply jamming.”
It’s been 15 years because the group – which incorporates Mick, Keith, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts – launched an album of unique materials and the 76-year-old singer admitted the delay is right down to his personal exacting requirements as he desires the tracks to be extra than simply ”good”.
He mentioned: ”Long time in the past. Last unique Stones. Yeah, it was so lengthy.
”And I believe one of many issues I personally have with it’s that it is immediately that you really want it to be actually good. So I do not simply need it to be album, I need it to be nice. You know? Yes, I’m very laborious on myself.
”If I write one thing or if I write one thing with Keith Richards or no matter, it may be nice,” he provides. ”It cannot simply be good.”
