Remember back in 2021 when Paul McCartney, in an interview with The New Yorker, said The Rolling Stones were “really just a blues cover band”?
Well, it didn’t hurt their friendship as Mick Jagger tells The Times of London that the quote gave him material for a Stones concert.
“When we’re on tour I like to say that someone is in the audience when they’re actually not, to create a big moment, so I said one time, ‘Paul McCartney is here tonight. He’s going to come up on stage and play some of our blues cover tunes.’ I texted Paul to say thank you for his comment because it has given me a lot of comic material.”
But Jagger goes onto to tell the paper that “The Beatles were also really just a blues cover band when they started out. Every band is a cover band at the beginning, because that’s how it goes.”
Asked how he wants the Stones to be remembered, he said as “a good rock band.
“There is going to be The Beatles and there is going to be The Stones and together they will represent the rock era. The Stones are much longer lived, obviously.”
Obviously there is no ill will between Jagger and McCartney as the former Beatle plays bass on “Bite My Head Off” on the new Stones album, Hackney Diamonds, which will be out on Friday. He also plays on a second track that they have in reserve for a possible followup album.
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