Mega-producer Andrew Watt has confirmed that the Rolling Stones are indeed working on a new album.
Watt’s confirmation comes after Keith Richards’ son, Marlon, revealed to Record Collectorin a May interview that was just recently published that the band were “nearly done” with recording in London.
Watt told Rolling Stone magazine that he has been in the studio with the band, whose last album 2023’s Hackney Diamonds earned the veteran group a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album.
‘Like working for Batman’
“I’ve said it before, but it’s like working for Batman,” Watt told the outlet. “When the tongue is up in the air, you just go… I can say we did some recording together, but that’s all I can say.”
Marlon Richards had a bit more to say, also revealing that the band has plans to tour Europe next year.
“They gave them a Grammy, so now they’re all hyped up on that,” Marlon told Record Collector. ‘Oh, yeah – we can do another one like that! We’ve got more like that if you want.’”
Ages of the Stones
It should be noted that the Stones aren’t getting any younger. The band’s two surviving original members Richards and singer Mick Jagger are currently 81 and 82, respectively. Drummer Charlie Watts died on Aug. 24, 2021 at the age of 80. Original bassist Bill Wyman, who left the band in 1993, is 88. Guitarist Ronnie Wood, who joined the band in 1975, is 78 years old.
In an earlier interview, Watt confirmed that the band has several leftover songs from the sessions that spawned Hackney Diamonds. “It was a prolific time for the band,” the producer told Rolling Stone New Music Now. “They had amassed, like, 18 years of material. There was so much to go through and choose initially, and then there were new songs that just came because everyone was rolling and king of flying,” he said.
Stones’ last No. 1 had songs from the vault
Lest anyone think an album composed primarily of leftover tracks from previous album sessions will be a subpar effort should revisit the Stones’ last chart-topping album, Tattoo You. It spent nine weeks on top of the Billboard album chart beginning the week of Sept. 19, 1981, and featured several songs that the band had left over from previous sessions.
“Tattoo You really came about because Mick and Keith were going through a period of not getting on,” associate producer and engineer Chris Kimsey said in an interview for The Billboard Book of Number One Albums. “There was the need to have an album out, so I suggested that I could go in and make an album of what I knew was still there in the vaults.”
That album includes such Stones classics as “Start me Up,” “Hang Fire,” and “Waiting on a Friend.”
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