Rolling Stones Drop New Song, ‘Living in a Ghost Town’ – Rolling Stone

The Rolling Stones have released the pricetag-recent tune “Dwelling in a Ghost Town” to tide followers over till they’re ready to reschedule the upcoming leg of their No Filter tour.

It’s their first normal composition since “Doom and Gloom” and “One Extra Shot” came out on their 2012 compilation album GRRR!, despite the truth that they did put out the blues duvet sequence Blues & Lonesome in 2016.

In a brand recent interview with Zane Lowe of Apple Tune, Jagger mentioned he wrote the tune with Keith Richards over a year ago. “It wasn’t written for now, then all over again it became correct a vogue of extraordinary issues,” he mentioned. “It became written about being in a spot which became fat of life nonetheless is now bereft of life so that you just may maybe discuss…I became correct jamming on the guitar and wrote it in actuality hasty in delight in 10 minutes.”

The Stones had been within the studio recording recent discipline topic earlier than the lockdown & one tune – Dwelling In A Ghost Town – we thought would resonate thru the occasions we’re living in. It’s out at 5pm BST as of late and likewise you may maybe presumably perhaps perhaps presumably hear the tune and interview on @Beats1 now! https://t.co/MkrRESZwY6 pic.twitter.com/4rHPctkwws

— Mick Jagger (@MickJagger) April 23, 2020

He modified some of the lyrics to own the occasions. “Keith Richards and I both had the premise that shall we nonetheless originate it,” he mentioned. “But I mentioned, ‘Neatly I’ve bought to rewrite it.’ Just a few of it is not going to work and some of it became a miniature unprecedented and a miniature too darkish. So I pretty rewrote it. I didn’t must rewrite very powerful, to be correct. It’s very powerful how I first and main did it.”

The Stones had been slowly picking away at a brand recent album for the previous few years. Richards told Lowe that this tune became recorded at a Los Angeles studio in early 2019. “It’s contrivance of eerie when it’s coming to life,” he mentioned. “I mean the ghost comes to life… I had mentioned to Don [Was] a pair of month or so ago, ‘Howdy, right here’s a time for the ghost town tune.’ After which Mick called me and mentioned the the same whisper and that broad minds own alike.”

The band hasn’t released an album of recent discipline topic since 2005’s A Bigger Bang. “I don’t correct need it to be a licensed album, I need it to be broad,” Jagger mentioned. “I’m very anxious on myself. If I write one thing or if I write one thing with Keith Richards or regardless of, it’s going to be broad. It will probably’t correct be licensed.”

The Stones’ point of curiosity within the previous two a protracted time has been on touring. Their 2019 No Filter North American stadium tour became an tall success and they planned on repeating it this summer time in markets they disregarded, nonetheless the COVID-19 pandemic pressured them to postpone everything till some undetermined point within the lengthy bustle.

“We don’t know when the next tour outdoors’s going to be,” Jagger told Lowe. “You may maybe presumably perhaps perhaps presumably imagine that taking half in outdoors would be more wholesome than taking half in interior, one would imagine, nonetheless you don’t know. And americans are pronouncing, ‘Neatly are you going to be taking half in in a stadium that’s 40,000 americans? You’re going to have 20,000 americans in there,’ for occasion. But right here is all within the realm of conjecture.”

The one bit of licensed Stones news within the heart of all this, then all over again, is that Jagger and Richards have a good deal of time previous regulations on their fingers now. “We’ve bought one more 5 or six tracks and there’s a good deal of contrivance of soul feel about it for some cause without anybody intending to,” Richards mentioned. “Obviously licensed now we’ve bought nothing else to attain nonetheless write some more songs, licensed?”