Keith Richards Says the Stones Have No Plans to Sell Their Catalog
Over the previous couple of years, everybody from Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to Jack Antonoff and Stevie Nicks have parted with their publishing catalogs for big payouts. In a brand new interview with CBS This Morning, Keith Richards says the Rolling Stones are unlikely to affix them anytime quickly. “Mick and I’ve not spoken…
Over the previous couple of years, everybody from Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to Jack Antonoff and Stevie Nicks have parted with their publishing catalogs for big payouts. In a brand new interview with CBS This Morning, Keith Richards says the Rolling Stones are unlikely to affix them anytime quickly.
“Mick and I’ve not spoken about it on a critical stage,” he mentioned. “I don’t know if we’re able to promote our catalog. We’d drag it out a bit, put some extra stuff in it. The one factor about promoting your catalog…it’s an indication of getting previous.”
He additionally mentioned that the loss of life of Charlie Watts final 12 months got here as an enormous shock to him. “I feel he tried to maintain [his health] below the wraps final 12 months,” he mentioned. “It got here as fairly a shock. He had had a tough with most cancers a 12 months or two earlier than, however he beat that one. He simply obtained hit with a double whammy, bless his soul.”
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Richards mentioned they considered probably canceling their tour final 12 months after Watts’ loss of life. “I feel Charlie needed us to go on the highway,” he mentioned. “He needed the tour to occur. That was my feeling the final time I spoke with him.”
The Stones haven’t launched an album of latest songs since 2005’s A Larger Bang, however Richards says they’re engaged on it. “I used to be working with Mick final week, and [drummer] Steve [Jordan], and we got here up with eight or 9 items of latest materials,” Richards mentioned, “which is overwhelming by our requirements.”
Earlier this week, the Stones announced tour dates for a 60th-anniversary tour of Europe. It kicks off June 1st in Madrid, Spain, and wraps up July thirty first in Stockholm, Sweden. Richards, in the meantime, is re-releasing his 1992 solo LP Most important Offender this week as a deluxe version. On March 10, he performed a uncommon set with the X-Pensive Winos on the Love Rocks profit in New York Metropolis.
