'We've been very lazy', says Mick Jagger as he explains why it's taken Rolling Stones 18 years to make new music. Source: Reuters live
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00:00 We did it pretty quick, actually.
00:02 There was lots of ideas floating about.
00:04 And we gathered them all together just before Christmas
00:07 last year and made a go of it, didn't we?
00:10 Yeah.
00:11 We did.
00:11 We cut them all very quickly.
00:12 But it's been 18 years since you did it.
00:14 We've been very lazy.
00:15 There was a blitz on it.
00:16 [LAUGHTER]
00:17 It was not very quick at all.
00:18 We have done something.
00:20 We've been on the road most of the time.
00:22 No, maybe we were a bit too kind of like lazy.
00:26 And then suddenly we said, why don't we go--
00:29 let's put a deadline.
00:30 Let's make a record and put a deadline.
00:32 So Keith and I and Ronnie had this chat.
00:34 And we said, OK, we'll make this record Christmas.
00:37 And we're going to finish it by Valentine's Day.
00:39 So we made two albums.
00:41 Yeah, exactly, yeah.
00:42 So we went into the studio, like Ronnie said, in December.
00:47 And we cut 23 tracks very quickly
00:51 and finished them off in January and mixed them in February.