“If I wanna party, it’s a party of one,” Mick Jagger sings on the Rolling Stones’ 'Living in a Ghost Town,' surprise-released on Thursday amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“If I wanna party, it’s a party of one,” Mick Jagger sings in the Rolling Stones’ new single, “Living in a Ghost Town,” and if that line resonates right now — well, that was the point.
Released with little warning Thursday morning, “Living in a Ghost Town” was originally written and recorded last year as part of a new studio album the Stones have been working on in Los Angeles and London. But with the world on lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the frontman took another pass at the song’s lyrics, he told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, then finished the plague-times version of the track while he, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts were in isolation.
A slinky-spooky blues-soul strut with faint echoes of “Some Girls,” “Living in a Ghost Town” — available on streaming services and with a YouTube video featuring footage from various deserted cities — has Jagger pondering the hours he’s spent alone just staring at his phone; there’s also a harmonica solo and prominent turns by Darryl Jones on bass and Matt Clifford on keys.
The song, coproduced by longtime collaborator Don Was, is the first original tune the Stones have put out since “Doom and Gloom” and “One More Shot,” both of which were included on the 2012 hits compilation “GRRR!” The band’s most recent album of new material was 2005’s “A Bigger Bang”; “
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Watch: The Rolling Stones Release Timely New Song & Video ‘Living In A Ghost Town’The Rolling Stones, who had planned a major tour before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world, have done the next best thing: Released a new song and video that, as Mick Jagger says, “wou…
Read more »
The Rolling Stones drop new song 'Living in a Ghost Town' — listen to it hereMick Jagger and Keith Richards discuss the release of The Rolling Stones' new song 'Living in a Ghost Town.'
Read more »
Watch the Video for The Rolling Stones’ New Track “Living in a Ghost Town”The RollingStones released a brand new track 'Living in a Ghost Town.' Watch the video here:
Read more »
The Rolling Stones drop new song 'Living in a Ghost Town' — listen to it hereMick Jagger and Keith Richards discuss the release of The Rolling Stones' new song 'Living in a Ghost Town.'
Read more »
Watch: The Rolling Stones Release Timely New Song & Video ‘Living In A Ghost Town’The Rolling Stones, who had planned a major tour before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world, have done the next best thing: Released a new song and video that, as Mick Jagger says, “wou…
Read more »