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The Rolling Stones at (tele) work

4/24/2020, 1:58:13 PM


The English group, scattered between France, the United States and England, took advantage of the confinement to release Living in a Ghost Town, their best track in a very long time.

What if confinement had a virtue: that of speeding up a work site that had been repeatedly announced but constantly postponed: the making of a new album by the self-proclaimed "biggest rock'n'roll group in the world" ? Deprived of concerts, which for many years have constituted the main part of its comfortable income, the training is confined to various places. Mick Jagger in France, Keith Richards in the United States, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood in England. The quartet takes the opportunity to advance a work begun a few years ago already: a new disc of original songs.

Not only have the major tours that punctuate the life of the group delayed the project, but the singer's health problems - operated on from the heart in spring 2019 - have considerably slowed down their activities. The Stones' last album, A Bigger Bang , already dates back to 2005. The historic group recorded two new titles in 2012 ( Doom and Gloom and One More Shot ), to embellish yet another best-of

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