Mick Jagger Gets Political, Addresses U.K. 'Anxiety' on Two New Songs

Rolling Stone ^ | July 27, 2017 | Jon Blistein

[ConservativeStatement]

Mick Jagger unveiled two politically charged new songs, "England Lost" and "Get a Grip." The Rolling Stones singer said he penned the tracks in response to the "anxiety [and] unknowability of the changing political situation." He added, "We obviously have a lot of problems. So am I politically optimistic? … No."

[ConservativeStatement]

Looks like there's no satisfaction.

[2ndDivisionVet]

There’s a recording studio in his nursing home?

[Vince Ferrer]

[Ken H]

Good for Mick. People are waking up.

[Fungi]

He contributed to it and now he complains? HaHaHaHaha....

[nickcarraway]

Jagger’s political songs are never good. Probably because he doesn’t really care about politics.

[Forgotten Amendments]

Lookin’ forward to anything they do.

This is a couple of years old, but it’s awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPFGWVKXxm0

[bigbob]

I like ‘em both, but then Sir Mick hasn’t done much that disappoints. “England Lost” has kind of a U2-ish sound to it but you can’t always get what you want.

I guess if Mick is ever going to get political, now’s the time.

[ConservativeStatement]

“England Lost” but remember that “London (is) calling.” After all “Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust.”

[dfwgator]

It can’t possibly top The Kinks’ “Living On a Thin Line”

[dfwgator]

“Hang Fire” was a pretty strong indictment of the welfare state that Britain had become.

“In the Sweet Old Country where I come from, nobody ever works, and nothing gets done, we hang fire....”

[Gene Eric]

Many knew privately, but now they’re speaking up.

[JennysCool]

Good call. Fantastic song.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Hey now...where you goin’ with that UB40 in your hand?

[dfwgator]

Hey now...where you goin’ with that UB40 in your hand?

Ahhh, yes, The Bangles before they became big.

[TChad]

This is a couple of years old, but it’s awesome!

And I had never heard it before.

Thanks.

[TChad]

England Lost:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t0T1RNBMXY

[Defiant]

But there’s no England now.

[Songcraft]

Here's Mick having a brief reunion with his oldddddddddd band, the "Rolling Rocks", covering this classic song from their fellow travelers, the "Beerbellies".

"When I'm 94"

[Dr. Ursus]

We just spent two weeks in England and watching the BBC. They’re more screwed up than we are by far!