- Music
- 22 Feb 23
While the album has yet to be announced, reports reveal Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will lend their talents to the long-awaited upcoming The Rolling Stones album.
Beatles band members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are suspected to feature on the yet-unannounced The Rolling Stones album.
The English rock band hasn't published new material since the 2005 release of A Bigger Bang. All collections released into the wild since have either been covers, like their 2016 Blue & Lonesome album, or live albums, like the GRRR Live! album released early this February.
Band members have been proudly teasing the unnamed new release for a while now, though. In 2020, the frontman Mick Jagger said the rock band had recorded "a bunch of tracks." In 2022, guitarist Keith Richards said that they had recorded a large amount of tracks during a week-long recording session in Jamaica.
The album will also include some of the late Charlie Watts' drumming parts, recorded before his death in 2021 at age 80. Richards confirmed Watts' contribution in a Los Angeles interview.
"You haven't heard the last of Charlie Watts."
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Since Watts' death, long term collaborator and music director Steve Jordan has stepped up to replace him.
Produced by the acclaimed music producer and musician Andrew Watt, McCartney's and Ringo's pieces for the unnamed album were supposed to have been recorded in Los Angeles.
Andrew Watt worked with Ozzie Osbourne on his most recent album Patient Number 9, accepting the two Grammy awards the metal artist's thirteenth album earned on Osbourne's behalf this past January.
McCartney reportedly recorded bass parts for several tracks and Ringo has recorded drums for the album. Any more details, of course, are scarce. Knowing whether the two remaining Beatles will feature on the same tracks is something we'll just have to be patient for.
This isn't the first time The Rolling Stones have worked with The Beatles members, although it is a rare occurrence. John Lennon and Paul McCartney sang backing vocals for the 1967 song 'We Love You.'
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The Rolling Stones also performed a cover of The Beatles song 'I Wanna Be Your Man' in 1963.
The album is in its mixing stage at the moment, so fans will have to be a bit more patient before they hear what the rock legends have been crafting behind closed doors.