The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, aged 82, has revealed that one of the new songs on the band's latest album was inspired by a relationship that ended suddenly and without explanation. In an interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe, Jagger discussed the real-life inspiration behind the track 'Back in Your Life'. He explained: 'I just came up with these lyrics really quickly. It's a classic story of meeting a woman and then you have a very quick fling with her and then she ghosts you. So that's the story.'
Jagger Confirms Personal Experience
When Lowe asked if Jagger was speaking from personal experience, the singer replied: 'Well obviously! Someone asked me this question the other day. They said, "Well, at your age, you know,"' he began. 'I've got memories I can draw on.' A shocked Lowe then responded: 'Who the f*** is ghosting Mick Jagger?' Jagger noted that he was drawing on past experiences, as he has not dated in a good while, having been in a relationship with ballet dancer Melanie Hamrick since 2014. Prior to that, he was married twice and had a reputation in his younger days as a ladies' man. The biography 'Mick' by Christopher Andersen estimated that Jagger has slept with 4,000 women while on the road with the Stones.
New Album 'Foreign Tongues' Features Big Names
The Rolling Stones have released their new album 'Foreign Tongues', which features cameo performances from Sir Paul McCartney and Robert Smith of The Cure. Another song on the album, 'Ringing Hollow', addresses more serious subjects such as the state of America. Jagger said: 'It's about America. It's a love song to America. It's given me a lot and it's admiration, but it's also like seeing the faults and the problems that we're going through in this country. And so I was addressing that and I had several songs that were addressing that theme and I chose this one because it wasn't quite as on the nose as the others and it had more subtlety, I thought, and so I discarded the other ones.'
Future Plans for The Rolling Stones
Although 'Foreign Tongues' has just been released, the band already has ideas for another album. Guitarist Keith Richards told Lowe: 'I have no problem with that. Anytime the whistle blows, I'm there, I'm up for it. Always got a few songs in the bag and I'm sure Mick does, he never stops and so I mean making that's what I do, so you're automatically thinking about what you're gonna do next and so it's sort of there in the making.' Jagger and Richards, who co-write almost all of the Stones' songs, no longer go into the studio empty-handed. Jagger comes with lyrics he has started by singing into his phone, while Richards has riffs and chord sequences roughed out. Richards recently said on the band's podcast: 'It's usually thousands of miles apart and then we get together for a day or two and say "what have you got?". We've gotten so used to it after all these years, actually working apart. As long as we get together in a little studio.'
