The Rolling Stones star on re-learning his instrument, Lady Gaga, and going back on the road.
If there's one constant in the story of the Rolling Stones, it's Keith Richards' love affair with the guitar.
But while the Stones sound ageless as ever, Richards' hands are gnarled with arthritis. Has it affected his playing? The turning point came at the end of the band's 60th anniversary tour last year. Rather than retreat to their individual bunkers, Mick Jagger wanted to go straight to the studio. "We needed someone tightening up and kicking us. He disciplined us and said, 'Come on, you're not going to do that tomorrow, you're going to do it today'."Fortuitous meeting
"It was a shock, this fresh world of writing our own material, this discovery that I had a gift that I had no idea existed. It was Blake-like, a revelation, an epiphany." The whole process was finished in two months - eight times longer than they spent on their 1964 debut, but still phenomenally fast by modern standards.
"Mick, given a song that he's not interested in, can really make it bad. And that's maybe one of the reasons it took 18 years, because Mick's waves of enthusiasm come and go."If that's a dig at his bandmate, its meant jovially. But the record did present an unwelcome challenge: Recording for the first time without Charlie Watts, their stoic and dependable drummer, who died in 2021.
Elsewhere, the album has a glut of superstar guests, including Paul McCartney, Elton John and erstwhile Stones bassist Bill Wyman. That was their approach throughout. The whole album is deliberately hand-crafted, recorded in real-time and non-computerised.
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