Keith Richards says the Rolling Stones will keep rocking well into their 80s.
The guitar legend, who turns 80 on December 18, insists the band are nowhere near retirement and can’t wait to record new music and Keith said he, Sir Mick Jagger, 80, and Ronnie Wood, 76 want to keep touring.
He told Classic Rock: "Man, I’ve never even come close to thinking of wrapping up the Rolling Stones’ story. We plan to keep working. Making music is still quite exciting for me. It’s funny how time flies. But I’m enjoying the process of releasing a new record and seeing what happens."
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The Stones, who released album Hackney Diamonds in October, have 16 US and Canadian dates next year. It comes after Sir Mick hinted he may leave his colossal fortune to charity. The rocker, who has eight children with five women, is worth around £411m ($500m) thanks to his decades-long writing partnership with Keith Richards. But the Rolling Stones frontman insisted the group have no plans to sell the rights to their back catalogue because he doesn’t think his offspring “need” the vast amount of money it would bring.
Asked about selling the catalogue, minted Sir Mick told WSJ magazine: “The children don’t need $500 million to live well. Come on.”Instead, he discussed the idea of his wealth going to charity and said: “You maybe do some good in the world.”
Theinger is accepting the fact AI and other advances of technology mean the group can continue to live on long after he and his bandmates have passed away. Referencing ABBA’s Voyage tour, which sees avatars of the Swedish pop group at their 1970s peak performing their biggest hits, Mick said: "You can have a posthumous business now, can’t you? You can have a posthumous tour. The technology has really moved on since the ABBA thing, which I was supposed to go to, but I missed it."
But the Satisfaction rocker admitted he finds repacked versions of an artist’s older music to be "pretty boring", despite the group having reissued a number of their earlier albums.
Sir Mick’s oldest child is Karis Hunt Jagger, 52, who he had with American singer Marsha Hunt.Jade Jagger, 51, is his only child from his marriage to ex-wife Bianca Jagger. He has four kids – Lizzie Jagger, 39, James Jagger, 38, Georgia May Jagger, 31 and Gabriel Jagger, 26 – with US model Jerry Hall.
And he had Lucas Jagger, 24, after an affair with Brazilian model Luciana Gimenez. Mick’s youngest son Deveraux Jagger – who he has with partner Melanie Hamrick – is just six years old.
Sir Mick says he still feels “relevant” because of the tot. He said: “I have this really wonderful family that supports me. “And I have, you know, young children—that makes you feel like you’re relevant."
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