Mick Jagger rewrote the lyrics to the Rolling Stones new single because he feared they were too dark in their eerie similarities to the events of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The band debuted Living In A Ghost Town, their first original tune since 2012’s Doom and Gloom, on Thursday (April 23, 2020), which they first recorded a year ago while working on music for a new album.
Fans have noted the prescience of lyrics that include, “life was so beautiful, then we all got locked down,” as people around the world face lockdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic.
So have the band – and Mick says the original version of the song was even more on the nose, as it contained darker references to disease. “It was written about being in a place that was all