Keith Richards says Andrew Watt may already be planning another Rolling Stones album: “He knows so much about The Stones that I’ve forgotten”
If you thought Foreign Tongues might signal The Rolling Stones easing into retirement, Keith Richards has news for you.
Speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, the guitarist reveals that producer Andrew Watt may already have his sights set on another Stones record, saying the band has found a renewed creative spark since teaming up with the Grammy-winning producer on Hackney Diamonds.
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After nearly two decades without a studio album, Richards credits Watt as a major reason the Stones have enjoyed such a prolific spell.
“I’m very glad that we met Andrew when we did because he knows so much about The Stones that I’ve forgotten,” says the 82-year-old musician. “And his enthusiasm for it, you can’t beat it, it’s great fun to work with.”
That enthusiasm, Richards explains, is also why Foreign Tongues exists in the first place.
“Really the only reason we have Foreign Tongues out is because we did so much work on Hackney Diamonds that Andrew and I both looked at it and somehow this is really a double album except, we’ll just give it a year or two of a break.”
“Before I think it was eighteen years between studio records, which was kind of stretching it a bit,” Richards adds. “But he’s probably got ideas for a third album already…”
The renewed momentum wasn’t lost on the rest of the band either. Ronnie Wood says the sessions were fuelled by spontaneity, with songs quickly taking shape once the members brought in a basic idea.
Asked what made the album’s making so “fun”, Wood replies: “I suppose the element of interaction and spontaneity. Spontaneity is the operative word here because we get the basic idea of a song. So Mick had an idea or something and said, come in the other room, let’s routine it, right? And so I get the basic structure. And then everyone else had their own idea of the basic structure. As long as it came back to that, it’s fine. You could do anything you wanted then.”
Richards sums up the atmosphere even more simply, saying, “The only thing you’re fighting is the room and the song, you’re okay as long as you’re not fighting each other. It was fun to make.”
Whether Foreign Tongues ends up being the Stones’ final album remains to be seen. Mick Jagger admits he thought Hackney Diamonds might have been the band’s last, before plans unexpectedly changed and another record came together.
Richards, however, sounds more than ready to keep going.
“I have no problem with that. Anytime the whistle blows, I’m there. I’m up for it. Always got a few songs in the bag and I’m sure Mick does, he never stops.”
Watch the full interview below.
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