‘We’ve been very lazy’, says Mick Jagger as he explains why it’s taken Rolling Stones 18 years to make new music

'We've been very lazy', says Mick Jagger as he explains why it's taken Rolling Stones 18 years to make new music. Source: Reuters live

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00:00 We did it pretty quick, actually.

00:02 There was lots of ideas floating about.

00:04 And we gathered them all together just before Christmas

00:07 last year and made a go of it, didn't we?

00:10 Yeah.

00:11 We did.

00:11 We cut them all very quickly.

00:12 But it's been 18 years since you did it.

00:14 We've been very lazy.

00:15 There was a blitz on it.

00:16 [LAUGHTER]

00:17 It was not very quick at all.

00:18 We have done something.

00:20 We've been on the road most of the time.

00:22 No, maybe we were a bit too kind of like lazy.

00:26 And then suddenly we said, why don't we go--

00:29 let's put a deadline.

00:30 Let's make a record and put a deadline.

00:32 So Keith and I and Ronnie had this chat.

00:34 And we said, OK, we'll make this record Christmas.

00:37 And we're going to finish it by Valentine's Day.

00:39 So we made two albums.

00:41 Yeah, exactly, yeah.

00:42 So we went into the studio, like Ronnie said, in December.

00:47 And we cut 23 tracks very quickly

00:51 and finished them off in January and mixed them in February.