Superheavy Mick Jagger: "Everyone Subsuming Their Egos"

Rolling Stone Mick Jagger has a "chaotic" new supergroup and explains why the Rolling Stones will not play in the Olympics.

Heavy lifting is a band that does not work.

Last project of Sir Mick Jagger's side is a super group of companies generally, played by Damian Marley, Joss Stone, The Millionaire and composer AR Rahman.

Musically, flits between rock, reggae, soul, blues and bhangra - with four singers compete for space through 12 eclectic tracks.

But the plate is strangely compelling, its musical flights grounded by smooth, rhythm roots of Bob Marley's backing band.

"It 'was chaotic," admits Jagger and recordings ", but it was also fun."

"Everyone had to subsume their egos to a certain extent. It really was not someone who was" the boss ".

Jagger cooked the idea heavier with producer Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, who met at breakneck speed through the band recording in Los Angeles in 2009.

"It was a project that puts a band in the studio and take the time they want," said Mick Jagger.

"Everybody was busy, so set the stage for the first 10 days, to see how we could do."

Those sessions resulted in nearly 40 hours of music, often in the form of extended jams, which are gradually reduced to form coherent paragraphs.

"If you can not play 35 minutes, you will like it," says Jagger.

Disclosures

As someone who wrote most of the time alone or in partnership with Keith Richards in nearly 50 years, was the collaborative process, a kind of revelation for strutting Stones singer.

To illustrate, we describe the creation of a song called One day, one night.

'AR Rahman to set this groove very simple, "he says," and on it I started to play guitar chords of two children.
"I'm adrift in a lyrical idea for this guy is drunk in a hotel room, and apparently had an argument with his girlfriend.

"Dave said:" Why did this guy go through a Joss to sing? "

"So I had to write a bit when I go out, and we changed the key to minor key to an important clue. Joss sings the major key, and took the stage to join her.

"It was a very different way to write a song. I had never done this before."

Finally, the album contains one track, where Jagger is credited as sole author.

I can not take no more than a brutally simple rock song, with a caustic lyrical.

"All you scurvy politicians", the pin 68, "cries endless remorse. It really is my goat, it sticks in my throat."

It is anger ("anger-ish," Jagger correct), but he denies that the song was directed against anyone in particular.

"And 'only common interest. It' so obvious that the promises of politicians' are usually broken.

"They expect us to believe that they will offer a panacea, but they are still trapped by the problems we inherited. They are prisoners of the practical realities."

This is a comprehensive reading of the political system for someone who is more readily associated with the revolution against the culture of the 1960s.

This is, after all, the man who wrote the Street Fighting Man in response to rioters who almost toppled the government of Charles de Gaulle in France in 1968.

But Jagger has often been said that there was supposed to be a call to arms for "the peaceful city of London."

"I never believed that the current violence was necessary for our community," he told a reporter in 1987.

"In other communities, perhaps, but in ours, it is totally unnecessary."

Asked if the riots this summer in Britain, the response is measured sec Jagger and analytical.

"It 'a long history of riots in England, and it seems to go in cycles," he says.

"We had a council tax riots, race riots, Toxteth riots.

"This summer has been described as" riots in consumption, "but, you know, during race riots in America in 1960, there were still looting as well. It is always a by-product.

"About all that announces a complete breakdown in society, as David Cameron has described, I do not know.

"Of course, it exposes the problems that must be faced. But these problems are insurmountable or not is a matter of conjecture."

Rumors running

Jagger proves easier to identify the musical question - especially on the Rolling Stones will play at the Olympics in 2012.

"Does anyone really came to us? No," he said.

"But Bryan Adams said:" Whatever you do, do not all openings Olympic ", after the Winter Olympics in Canada.

"It was so cold, and he had to use this custom strange ... Even if you do not happen here - it's just rain."

The star said he was impressed by the contribution from the UK in the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

"It was not a brilliant play, when they left the stadium with a bus in London with Jimmy Page on it," he laughs.

"I do not want to be on that bus when it arrived in London ..."

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