There is not a month, almost since they were born back in the early sixties, in which the Rolling Stones do not spread any news. Either they are performing, or they edit new songs, or they reissue records ... A few days ago, the group of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards announced that they are resuming the
No Filter
tour
for the end of September of this 2021 and now they are releasing an unreleased song to warm up the reissue of the 1981 album
Tattoo You.
It's called
Living In The Heart Of Love,
a rock song in which Jagger howls: "I'm trying so hard to be your lover, I'm trying so hard ...". The song, composed by the Jagger / Richards tandem, starts with the common places that
Stonians
appreciate so much
:
the
riff
Richards guitar until Charlie Watts drums come in and everything begins to crystallize in that identifiable dirty rock and roll.
Special mention to Nicky Hopkins' piano, which sounds underneath the entire song.
This song will be one of the nine unreleased that the reissue of the album will include, which is announced for October 22.
There are many fans who consider
Tattoo You
the last great album of the Stones.
Maybe they are right.
The picky eaters point out that one should go further back to
Some Girls,
from 1978. The truth is that the group has only released six albums with original songs since 1981. Six in 40 years.
Lots of live in-between and a worthy
blues
cover album
,
Blue & Lonesome,
in 2016.
The relevance of
Tattoo You
goes beyond the songs: the tour to present the album marked the return of the band to stadium concerts. The Spanish public especially appreciates the work, since it was the perch for the historic concerts of July 1982 at the Vicente Calderón stadium. The rojiblanco arena is no longer standing, nor have people returned to splash so happily with such a wild storm.
Another relevant fact about
Tattoo You:
it includes the band's last great classic,
Start Me Up,
fixed since then in English recitals. The surprising thing about this work is that it is made of scraps, discarded songs from recording sessions of years ago that were taking shape to complete the album. Within the meter of bad relations between Jagger and Richards this time is listed as one of the most critical. The lack of communication between them impeded the creative process. But the machine can never stop, so they opened the drawer of unfinished songs and got to work ... each one in their control booth, hardly speaking. It was on the subsequent tour when they stopped joining in a single microphone to sing, a mythical image in their concerts of the seventies.
That chaotic and sublime summer in Villa Nellcote, the rock and roll mansion
Another of the unreleased songs of the nine announced will be a cover of a theme by the
bluesman
Jimmy Reed (Neil Young's favorite),
Shame, Shame, Shame.
The song has already been played in a special concert, as you can see in this video.
Another is the soul piece
Drift Away.
All are topics that followers have heard in pirated editions and that with some patience can be found on platforms such as YouTube.
The official version is supposed to come with better sound.
The group's news is also focused on the US tour, which will begin on September 26 in St. Louis and will end, after 13 dates, in Austin on November 20. It will be the first round of performances by stars before large audiences after the trail of suspensions due to the pandemic. But the return is bittersweet, as the silent and endearing Charlie Watts will not be with his drumsticks for medical reasons. “Today I have accepted, following the advice of the experts, that this will take a while. For once, my times have been a bit out of place, "said Watts, who does not think about leaving the group despite always being the most disdainful when it comes to touring and being the oldest, 80 years. The touch of his wrist, always stately, on his simple drums will be missed. But is that the show,on the Stones, you should always go on ...
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