The Stones are to forego their share of the royalties from a cover of You Can’t Always Get What You Want which is to raise funds for the Jo Cox Foundation. Mick in particular has never been known for the glee with which he opens his wallet so it’s nice of them to generate a little Christmas cheer out of one of the most shocking events of a year which has contained so many.
Aww. That’s nice
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Nice indeed. Santa Mick? Unexpected!
“Mick in particular has never been known for the glee with which he opens his wallet…”
He doesn’t issue a press statement to the Daily Mail every time he does so, but if you read the interviews and articles in music magazines carefully you will find that Mr. Jagger can be quite nice. At least two blues legends had the cost of their health issues covered by Jagger, no questions asked, and he also paid for a couple of court cases where other artists (nothing to do with the Stones or their kind of music) had to sue their manager or label. He also financed a couple of African/world music projects.
Yeah but, I wrote and asked him to lend me twenty quid for a new valise and didn’t even get a reply. And twenty quid’s nothing to him.
Fair point. It does read like I’m having a go at Mick for his (reputation for) tight-fistedness rather than praising the gesture as I had intended.
I wonder if this gesture of largesse is an attempt to offset the bad vibes the Stones got for allowing (or not preventing) YCAGWYW to be used at the Trump rallies.
It’s a Decca recording, so the Stones can’t do anything about it being used anywhere. If Trump had used “Starfucker” it would’ve been another story…
True, ABKCO made sure of that. but unlike other artists I didn’t notice the Stones complaining or distancing themselves from it.
Cocksucker Blues, also an ABKCO owned track, might have been more appropriate, come to think of it.
Yes, ownership notwithstanding, artists usually issue a statement pretty sharpish ifor they aren’t happy. One can but assume that they are relatively content with the views of Trump’s libertarian, tax-cutting, foreigner hoofing ways. Alternatively they think a fairon number of their fans are sympathetic, which is probably true.
Still using it on his victory tour, btw