Keith Richards’ guitar is an unaccountably sprightly cat on heat doing its best to ignore the mournful harmonica howl, while Jagger is completely commanding, a man mining his very essence.Īt a time when everyone – but particularly older people – are rightly fearful for their health, The Rolling Stones, with their combined age of 302, here sound ripe, robust and thrillingly alive. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupLiving In A Ghost Town But the big surprise here is that the song, drenched in the blues until it’s practically dripping, is fantastic. The Rolling Stones had been in the recording studio working on new music before the COVID-19 lockdown and one particular track they’ve been working on - ‘Living In A Ghost Town’ - really resonates with what we’re living through right now, so they wanted to share it with you. To be still quite so rampant suggests what each of us knew anyway: Jagger is no ordinary 76-year-old. While now just a small blip on the map with a population of only 28, Deeth like many Nevada ghost towns used to be more populated and boasted a hotel, saloon, water tower, and other businesses during. Please note that our catalog only lists songs that weve set up within our.
One World: Together at Home, review: The Rolling Stones stole the eight-hour livestream Located near the intersection of Interstate 80 and Nevada State Route 230 in Elko County lies the tiny Nevada living ghost town of Deeth. Album Poster The Rolling Stones Living In A Ghost Town. Often described as a ghost town, it doesn’t quite fit the category, but, close enough, considering that it once. Oatman, Arizona, located in the Black Mountains of Mohave County got its start as a mining camp after prospectors struck gold in the area in the early 1900s. “Every night I’m dreaming that you’ll come and creep into my bed.” Oatman, Arizona by Kathy Weiser-Alexander. “I’m going nowhere, shut up all alone,” he pines. This might seem nicely on message, but Living in a Ghost Town is of course no more about the global pandemic than, say, Brown Sugar was about the benefits of adding a spoonful of demerara to a cup of black coffee. “Life was beautiful,” Jagger sings, elasticating every vowel, “then we all got locked down.” The Rolling Stones had been in the recording studio working on new music before the COVID-19 lockdown and one particular track theyve been working on. They chose to do nothing with it at the time but have since tweaked it, and are now offering it up to the world as a potential pandemic soundtrack. Living in a Ghost Town, the first new Rolling Stones single in eight years, was actually written last year, knocked off, Jagger has suggested, in 10 minutes during a – dreaded term, this – “jam session”. The Rolling Stones have released the brand-new song Living in a Ghost Town to tide fans over until they’re able to reschedule the upcoming leg of their No Filter tour. The band members range in age from 72 to 78.The Rolling Stones played a rendition of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” from their separate homes (Photo: Global Citizen)
Last month, the Stones announced the postponement of their 15-city North American tour, including a May 12 date in Vancouver, due to the global threat of COVID-19. “We are very sorry to all the fans who were looking forward to it as much as we were, but the health and safety of everyone has to take priority," read a statement. Just as it was important that the mines of Colorado and California could ship their riches out by rail, the vast cattle ranches of western plains needed to reach the rail head to turn their steers into cash. “Mick and I decided this one really needed to go to work right now.” Ghost towns are primarily associated with the Wild West frontier and people flocking to areas with valuable mineral resources, including gold and silver in the Rockies and oil in Texas. "Then s**t hit the fan,” Keith Richards explained. The Stones started working on the song last year in Los Angeles and planned to include it on a new album. He added: “We’ve worked on it in isolation. In a release, Jagger said the song was one “we thought would resonate through the times that we’re living in right now.” Shots of Toronto appear throughout the video, starting at the 13-second mark. (The iconic Bell Media building shows up at 3:25.) “Feel like a ghost living in a ghost town.”Ī video for the song includes scenes of empty streets and subway stations in cities around the world. “Life was so beautiful, then we all got locked down,” sings Mick Jagger.
The Rolling Stones have released “Living in a Ghost Town,” a timely track the band partly recorded during the COVID-19 lockdown.