Jagger working ‘from home’ on new album

Sir Mick Jagger has said he is working on The Rolling Stones’ latest album from home but that it will not be released until the band can get back in the studio together.

The veteran rockers released a new track, Living In A Ghost Town, which was mostly recorded before lockdown and finished by the band remotely in April this year.

Speaking on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2, Sir Mick said there were more songs from those sessions but fans should not expect to hear them soon.

Asked when they might be released, he said: “I don’t know. We recorded some at the same time as we did Ghost Town.

“We recorded a bunch of tracks that, actually, I have been finishing off the vocals and some other instruments on them, and doing some mixes on them. I am working on it.

“But what we have already done sounds pretty good to me.”

Sir Mick, 76, was joined by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, also 76, to discuss Scarlet, a lost Rolling Stones song from October 1974 which Page played on.

The song is being released as part of a Goats Head Soup album reissue.

Sir Mick said: “Sounds very rock and roll, doesn’t it? But I must say it was the basement of a very luxurious house.

“It was Keith (Richards) and me and then Jimmy Page turned up for some reason.”

Page said he remembered the sessions feeling “really special” at the time.

He said: “Working with Keith, it was something from scratch almost.

“He was playing it and then everyone was joining in and working their parts out to it.”

Page also rubbished the idea Led Zeppelin could stage a comeback tour, after reforming in 2007 at the O2 Arena in London, with original member John Bonham’s son Jason on drums.

Mick Jagger during 2019 show.