The Rolling Stones are probably recording with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr

A hot rumor is currently going around in Los Angeles: Apparently, the Rolling Stones were recording sessions in the past few weeks – a good friend was probably there too: Paul McCartney is said to have contributed bass parts for a track and Ringo Starr is said to be on the new one play music project.

How “Variety” reported, it is still not clear whether the recordings will ultimately be heard on a new album. After all, more songs are often recorded in the studio so that a selection can be made later. As early as 2021, Mick Jagger said that a lot of new tracks were ready – at the turn of the year Keith Richards also announced that new music would be coming. It would be the first album to feature all-new Rolling Stones material since 2005’s A Bigger Bang. And even Charlie Watts can be heard on some of the songs recorded before his death. “Let me put it this way,” Richards said in 2021, “You haven’t heard the last of Charlie Watts.”

The Rolling Stones and The Beatles – friendly rivals?

The fact that Paul McCartney and Andrew Watt, the producer involved in the album, get along well speaks for a good working relationship. They have recorded music together before. However, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles had only a few musical points of contact in their past. The Stones’ second single (and first hit) was the 1963 Lennon-McCartney song “I Wanna Be Your Man.”

Four years later, Lennon and McCartney sang backing vocals on the Stones’ single “We Love You.” That same year, Brian Jones played saxophone on a Beatles song that eventually became the B-side You Know My Name (Look Up the Number), released in 1970.

In November 1968, Lennon and Yoko Ono performed two songs for the TV special “The Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus” – with Richards on bass, Eric Clapton on lead guitar and “Jimi Hendrix Experience” drummer Mitch Mitchell. But there was always a certain rivalry – and that probably hasn’t completely died down over the years. In 2021, Paul McCartney said of the Stones: “They’re a blues cover band. I think our net was a little bit wider than theirs.” Shortly afterwards, at a concert by the group in Los Angeles, Jagger shot back: McCartney was sitting in the audience and “doing a blues cover version with us”.

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