More than 55 years into their career, the Rolling Stones are still going strong with live performances and new music. The band’s last studio album containing original songs, A Bigger Bang, came out in 2005 and the follow up shouldn’t be far ahead if we are to trust Mick Jagger.
In a recent interview with Independent.ie, Jagger revealed he is writing new songs at the moment.
“I am writing at the moment,” said the 74 year old.
When asked whether he is preparing new music for his solo album or the Rolling Stones, Jagger replied: “I’m just writing. It is mostly for the Stones at the moment. I’m just writing. I don’t really think about what I have written, much. I just keep ploughing forward, really.”
Rolling Stones are currently in the middle of a tour across Europe, which will see the band playing dates in the UK, Germany, France, and Poland. And the band doesn’t intend to stop there, despite recent rumors about their retirement.
“I haven’t really thought about this set of gigs being our last tour, to be honest,” said Jagger while talking to The Sunday Post recently. “There is going to come a point when we don’t want to do it any more, for whatever reason – but I’m not thinking about that this summer.”
The band’s most recent studio release came out in 2016, when they presented an album of covers titled Blue & Lonesome. The album contained songs from artists like Memphis Slim, Buddy Johnson, Bukka White, and others. Blue & Lonesome received very positive reviews from the critics and debuted at number 4 at the US Billboard 200 charts, claiming the tops spot in more than 15 countries including the UK, Japan, and Germany. It also brought Rolling Stones a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album of the Year at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards, their third career Grammy.
