But Mick Jagger’s schedule, even today, is full and doesn’t really leave him much room. “If I wrote ‘Hey Brother’ [l’une de ses dernières chansons, ndlr], it is also to evoke the absence of my brother, because it sometimes weighs on me. Because of the confinement and the Rolling Stones tour in the United States, I have barely seen him in recent years.“, he says, a little sad, even if he knows that they both have “lives full of children, of music”.
He also knows that despite the distance and their time-consuming careers, they still manage to make time for each other. “With Mick, we often talk on the phone“, he reveals. “We tell each other our lives, like two brothers who get along well. We have the same roots. That, no one can take that away from us“.
And Mick Jagger knows how to take a break from time to time to answer his brother’s calls and in particular so that they can work together, as they did for the song Anyone seen my heart. “There are only our two voices […], I like this. I needed a voice other than mine. I offered to record the backing vocals. At that time, Mick was busy, so we postponed the project. Finally, we did it in Tuscany, where he had rented a house with a great studio“, he recalls.
They also shoot the clip for the song quickly: “I had to organize everything. Mick was overwhelmed. He was about to leave for his American tour with the Stones. We made the clip in the basement of his London house. He was tired but totally pro, as always. He was amazing!“A Lovely Statement From a Brother Who Could Only Be Jealous”because he has more hair“, and whose music deserves to be listened to!