But with the world on lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the frontman took another pass at the song’s lyrics, he told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, then finished the plague-times version of the track while he, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts were in isolation.Ī slinky-spooky blues-soul strut with faint echoes of “Some Girls,” “Living in a Ghost Town” - available on streaming services and with a YouTube video featuring footage from various deserted cities - has Jagger pondering the hours he’s spent alone just staring at his phone there’s also a harmonica solo and prominent turns by Darryl Jones on bass and Matt Clifford on keys.

Released with little warning Thursday morning, “Living in a Ghost Town” was originally written and recorded last year as part of a new studio album the Stones have been working on in Los Angeles and London. “If I wanna party, it’s a party of one,” Mick Jagger sings in the Rolling Stones’ new single, “Living in a Ghost Town,” and if that line resonates right now - well, that was the point.

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