Mick Jagger recently chatted with Rolling Stone, chronicling how he’s been holding up in the COVID-19 era.
“I’m writing some new songs and getting along with some documentary projects for different things. A few movie things I can get on with,” The Rolling Stones frontman says of his quarantine in the English countryside. “You know, you try to keep yourself busy, because there’s quite a lot of downtime. But I still try to enjoy that as much as possible, like a lot of people.”
Later, he says that The Stones could play a socially-distant concert, but notes how the global discrepancy in infection is a difficult thing to process, “I’m feeling really sorry for some of my friends who don’t have as much, or can’t get out, or if they do get out, it’s a bit fraught. Every time I read the American newspapers, it looks just horrific.”
The Stones have kept busy during the pandemic, however. They released a new track, offered a weekly “Extra Licks” concert broadcast and shared a previously-unheard Jimmy Page collaboration.
But as for live music, Jagger remains uncertain.
“We don’t know how it’s going to function,” he adds. “In Europe, we’ve had small-scale concerts. We’ve had socially-distanced concerts. You can see [concerts] starting in some parts of the world, New Zealand, Australia, so on. But as far as the U.S. is concerned, we don’t really know what the future holds. So many people [are] out of work, losing money. Is it ever going to be the same again? Will it be always different? We just don’t know.”
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Mary Shelley
September 10, 2020 at 1:21 pmAmerica gets the society it deserves. Good Luck
me
September 10, 2020 at 10:38 amAwww… little whiny babies don’t like it when Mick speaks the truth. It’s what the world thinks of this country… and that’s what happens when too many deplorables vote in an idiot to run the country. Too bad the left got too sure of themselves during the last election… sometimes being too smart has a way of biting one in the ass! Hopefully, that gets corrected this November and the US can get back to being respected again…
Tim
September 9, 2020 at 12:15 amBloke lame, Dope lamer, Stal unintelligible gibberish and Ed, simply wrong and irrelevant. EM Made its mark at the time presaging the 80s but doesn’t come close what they did 19 years later with Bridges to Babylon.
ed
September 8, 2020 at 8:08 pmJeez. Who cares? These guys haven’t mattered since Emotional Rescue (1979?).
Dose
September 8, 2020 at 6:58 pmThank god because there’s nothing better than the circus. And by the way the only reason the Rolling Stones became the band that they did was because of black America and what they stole from it so as far as the British invasion goes that’s exactly what it was an invasion thank God for Louis Armstrong ~Don’t get me wrong I love the stones but if it wasn’t for America they would’ve never made it
StAl
September 8, 2020 at 5:15 pmMAGA/Maskhole/Liberty clowns defending butthurt because the only music they’re left with is crappy country and The Nuge.
This is why we can’t have nice things. America is a circus filled with clowns.
Geo
September 8, 2020 at 2:18 pmWhy the hate?? It’s a measured response.
And good god it’s the Stones who’ve given so much. Have you ever seen them, they go back to 1964 you know?
ya dope
September 8, 2020 at 12:09 pmSTFU Mick, no one cares what a billionaire who charges $750+ for a common ticket thinks. Stay home and exploit your own countryman…
Steve
September 8, 2020 at 2:58 pmQue up looser 2…. (YA Dope)
Patrick J Logan
September 8, 2020 at 3:44 pmYour parents knew what they were doing when they named you.
Ya Bloke
September 7, 2020 at 8:10 amDon’t come here 🇺🇸
Steve
September 8, 2020 at 2:57 pmQue up looser 1…. (YA BLOKE)