In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the Rolling Stones singer stressed that his eight children “don’t need” this money.
Mick Jagger has just celebrated his 80th birthday and is visibly in good shape but he doesn’t think of himself as eternal. While there are no plans to sell the rights to the Rolling Stones’ post-1971 catalogue, he suggests they could be bequeathed to charities, rather than to his children.who don’t need it“. “We can do a little good in the world“, he said in an interview with Wall Street Journal (in English, reserved for subscribers). “Children don’t need $500 million to live well. Let’s go“, he said.
The Stones don’t have the rights to some of their biggest hits
The Rolling Stones singer has eight children. Forty-six years separate the oldest, Karis, 52 years old, whom he had with the actress Martha Hunt, from the youngest, Deveraux, 6 years old, whom Mick Jagger had with the choreographer Mélanie Hamrick.
In this same interview with Wall Street Journal, Mick Jagger clarifies that the Rolling Stones do not own the copyright to some of their biggest hits. “The industry was nascent.” and there was no “so many people able to advise you” as there are today, he emphasizes. “But it still happens. I mean, look what happened to Taylor Swift! I don’t really know the ins and outs, but she obviously wasn’t happy.“
Mick Jagger also raises the possibility of the Rolling Stones performing on posthumous tour in the form of holograms. “We can do a posthumous tour now. Technology has really moved since that of ABBA, which I was supposed to see and which I missed“.
The song with Lady Gaga and Stevie Wonder revealed
The Rolling Stones, who announced the release of their 24th studio album in early September, Hackney Diamondsfor October 20, unveiled a new song on Thursday September 28 after the first single Angry. On Sweet Sounds of Heaven, Lady Gaga takes the microphone as well as Stevie Wonder on keyboards (piano, Moog and Fender Rhodes). In an interview on Apple Music 1Mick Jagger salutes “the great singer” who is Lady Gaga, here in a register that is both angelic and soulful, and states that she has never heard her sing in this style before.
2023-09-29 16:46:05
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