The Rolling Stones and the Beatles starred in one of the most notorious generational rivalries in music during their years of coexistence. Even today it seems impossible to love these two bands that have become musical icons of the 20th century with the same intensity. There is also the sterile debate of which was better; if the group of the perfect sons-in-law -in the beginning- of Liverpool or the London rebels.
What cannot be disputed is that the Rolling win in longevity. 60 years after their first meeting, the legendary band led by Mick Jagger will release a new album in the coming months that will feature the collaboration of the two living members of the Beatles. According to the reputable entertainment magazine Variety, Paul McCartney would have put his voice on one of the songs on the future album produced by the popular musician and record producer Andrew Watt.
The American weekly affirms that Ringo Starr’s participation in the study would also be guaranteed, although by no means to replace the late Charlie Watts on drums. In fact, it is very likely that in the new Rolling Stones there are recordings recorded in 2021 by one of the founders of the band and that until his death at the age of 80 he only missed one concert.
The recording sessions took place in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. It is unknown if McCartney and Starr will sing on the same theme or on different songs. The production of the album now enters the mixing phase. Jagger confirmed in 2021 that the band already had “a large number of songs done.”
Grammy winner for best producer of the year 2021, Watt has recently worked with Ozzy Osbourne -recently retired from the stage- and with other great veteran representatives of Rock, such as Pearl Jam or Iggy Pop. He has also left his record mark in the field of pop, producing Justin Bieber, Dua Lipa or Miley Cyus.
McCartney and Watt have worked together in the past. In 2021, the Beatles member described his meeting with the producer. “I went to have a cup of tea and of course we ended up doing a song.” Asked recently what he had in store for the Beatles in 2023, he said he had collaborated “with a few people” and that he hoped to be involved in some more recordings.
The last album published by the Stones, A Bigger Bang, dates from 2005, although over the years they have released new songs or have entered other worlds. They released Blue
Despite their long relationship and fierce but (usually) seemingly friendly rivalry, members of the Beatles and Rolling Stones have rarely collaborated musically. The Stones’ second single (and first hit) was a cover of the 1963 Lennon-McCartney composition I Wanna Be Your Man, although no Beatles performed on that recording.
Four years later, Lennon and McCartney sang backing vocals on the Stones’ single We Love You in a show of generational support: the song celebrated the overturning of a false drug conviction that saw Mick Jagger and Keith Richards briefly jailed. That same year, Stones multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones played saxophone on a Beatles song that eventually became the B-side of You Know My Name (Look Up the Number), though it wasn’t released until 1970.
1967 was probably the high point in relations between the Beatles and the Stones: they even greeted each other on the covers of their albums released that year, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Their Satanic Majesties Request.
In November 1968, Lennon and Yoko Ono performed two songs for The Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus television concert special as part of a one-off supergroup that also included Richards on bass, Clapton on lead guitar, and drummer for The Rolling Stones. Jimi Hendrix Experience, Mitch Mitchell.
