![]() ![]() It’s clearly not going to depose Brown Sugar or Sympathy for the Devil from the setlist whenever the Stones return to arena-packing, but it’s substantially better than the stuff Jagger and Richards came up with 15 years ago. Living in a Ghost Town feels trim and light on its feet. But here, as on Blue and Lonesome, knocked off in three days, working at speed seems to have had a beneficial effect on the music: Jagger says he wrote it in 10 minutes. Latter-day Stones albums have been marred by a sense of being overworked – not least Bridges to Babylon, with its tortuous gestation and plethora of producers. As evidenced by his performance of You Can’t Always Get What You Want on the One World: Together At Home livestreamed concert, his voice – with Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood’s guitars weaving around him – seems immune to the kind of ravages you might expect to have been visited on a 76-year-old singer. Written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, created & recorded in Los Angeles, London and in isolation. At one point, it breaks down to little more than a stabbing, echoing organ with a vintage reggae flavour.Įlsewhere, you can hear a faint echo of Blue and Lonesome’s sound in the thin layer of distortion that covers Jagger’s harmonica and vocal. LIVING IN A GHOST TOWN a new song from The Rolling Stones. Listen to Living In A Ghost Town by The Rolling Stones, 613,222 Shazams, featuring on Classic Rock Essentials, and The Rolling Stones Essentials Apple Music playlists. It’s also burnished by intriguing sense of vaguely dub-influenced space. The music, meanwhile, feels appealingly sleazy, as befits a song in which Mick Jagger complains, very Jaggerishly, that social distancing is preventing him having as much sex as he’d like.
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