September 22nd, 2011 at 10:29 am by
Anne

Mick Jagger was at the Double Seven in New York last night debuted his new supergroup SuperHeavy and the launch of their self-titled album! WHAT?? No more Rolling Stones?
The new group consists of Joss Stone, Dave Stewart, Damian Marley, A. R. Rahman and of course Mick Jagger. He tells the Associated Press that he tried to rap (via THR):
"I was just copying Damian. I do a little bit," Jagger says. "I went toasting, we call it, but it is the same thing [as rap]. Damian was doing this really good toasting, West Indian rapping, so I thought, "I could do that. It can't be that difficult." It actually was quite difficult. With a bit of practice, it is all right. It is a laugh."
Although Jagger doesn't specifically address if the Rolling Stones are over and this is his new band, I think it's just an 'experiment' of sorts:
"I said to Dave… 'Is this really stupid?'" admits Jagger. "We always have songs going into projects. We make up songs when we are there. That is great, but we always have songs finished going in."
"I said, 'We are going into this thing we have talked about for the last three months or whatever, and we don't have any finished songs.' Dave said, 'I know. It is really worrying," Jagger goes on. "But then Dave created this whole raison d'etre why we didn't have songs. The raison d'etre for why we didn't have songs was because if we had songs … people would feel that it wasn't their project as much. People wouldn't participate and give as much, which is true. So we were all thrown in the deep end."
I quickly skimmed over reviews of SuperHeavy and I don't see a lot of favorable reviews. Either way you cut it, they assembled a group of super talented musicians.
Photos: WENN