'Superheavy
'Unbelievable'
'Miracle Worker'
'Energy'
'Satyameva Jayathe'
'One Day One Night'
'Never Gonna Change'
'Beautiful People'
'Rock Me Gently'
'I Can't Take It No More'
'I Don't Mind'
'World Keeps Turning'

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005AWTBO4/?tag=imwan-20

http://www.nme.com/news/the-rolling-stones/56800

Mick Jagger forms new band Super Heavy Rolling Stones frontman heads up new project with Joss Stone, Dave Stewart and Damian Marley

Mick Jagger has confirmed that he's formed a new group called Super Heavy.

Speaking to NME.COM, The Rolling Stones frontman revealed he has been rehearsing in Los Angeles with a star-studded line-up, which includes Eurythmics' Dave Stewart, Joss Stone and Damian Marley.

Discussing the formation of the new band, Jagger said: "The four of us got together and thought we'd go into a studio and throw some things around, see what would happen, if we'd have fun.

"We didn't know what kind of music we'd make. We knew it would be a laugh, because we all got on. But you can have a laugh and nothing comes out, y'know."

Super Heavy also features AR Rahman, the award-winning composer behind films such as Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours. "Dave Stewart and I said to each other, 'Let's phone AR Rahman, he's in town, that'll be different', then we had another continent involved."

Jagger and Stewart have worked together on numerous occasions over the years, as have Jagger and Joss Stone.

Their most notable work together was for the Alfie soundtrack, which included a Jagger/Stewart collaboration 'Old Habits Die Hard' and a Jagger/Joss Stone track 'Lonely Without You (This Christmas)'.

"We've got some more reggae songs, some rock, some ballads, some soul music" Jagger continued.

"We've got one song in Urdu, I managed to do one line in Urdu, only one! It's not world music per se, a Womad festival kind of thing. It's a much more accessible style, a lot of dancey things."

Speaking about the songwriting process, he said "We'd all leap in with our ideas, getting excited about one another. We're four vocalists, we've never worked like that before. It's great because the whole burden's not on you, and that made it fun. There are a lot of different musical styles, maybe even some we've invented."

Referring to his day job, Jagger revealed: "If you're a Rolling Stones fan there's definitely stuff you can relate to. Other stuff that you can't relate to so much, maybe if you listen you'll enjoy it. I don't think it's so far off the beaten track that you can't understand it."

The singer also hinted that fans of The Rolling Stones might have to wait a little longer for another rumoured tour to materialise, as he is considering putting Super Heavy out on the road.

"If people really like it, we will. If they don't like it we won't! We haven't planned to do a tour or anything, but if people really like it maybe we will. We'd love to get together and play some of it live," he concluded.

Earlier this month, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richard revealed that he had been working on a new album with his X-pensive Winos collective.

Weird.

Supergroup?! Hah!

Sort of a Rolling Wilburys thing?

I guess the new definition of "Supergroup" is: "People you've actually heard of of forming a new band."

Some studio footage...

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.ph ... 2&comments

The 5 minute video runs through a lot of different songs... I think you'll get a pretty good sense of whether you're going to be into this or not.

From Billboard.com

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/mick-ja ... 8422.story

Mick Jagger's SuperHeavy Supergroup to Drop Album in September
by Phil Gallo, L.A. | June 23, 2011 3:48 EDT

Universal Music's A&M will release the album from SuperHeavy, a group featuring Mick Jagger, Eurythmics founder Dave Stewart, singer Joss Stone, composer A.R. Rahman and reggae artist Damian Marley. No exact release date is set. An official release said the album will be unveiled in September; the first single is titled "Miracle Worker" and the five stars will be recording a video for the track. Jagger and Stewart co-produced the album.

Recording in various studios around the world -- France, Cyprus, Miami, India -- the majority of the tracks laid down over three weeks in Los Angeles earlier this year. The quartet wrote 22 songs in their first six days together. The term "SuperHeavy" was inspired by Muhammad Ali.

Jagger and Stewart had worked together on the 2004 soundtrack to the film "Alfie," and Stewart produced Stone's last album. Both wanted to bring in a Jamaican musician and Damian Marley entered the picture with his rhythm section, bassist and composer Shiah Coore and drummer Courtney Diedrick. They met Rahman while recording in Los Angeles.

According to the band's bio, SuperHeavy came together after Jagger and Stewart wondered what a band of musicians from different genres would sound like. Jagger had his doubts it would come together.

One of the first on the album is Jagger singing in Urdu. He takes lead on Rahman's song "Satyameva Jayate," which translates to "the truth alone triumphs."

I have so little interest in this, but anyway...

Mick Jagger’s new supergroup – SuperHeavy – will release its debut album this September.

The SuperHeavy lineup features Jagger, Eurythmics founder Dave Stewart, singer Joss Stone, composer A.R. Rahman and reggae artist Damian Marley.

Jagger and Stewart co-produced the album, which was recorded in various studios around the world, including those in France, Cyprus, Miami and India. The majority of the tracks were laid down over three weeks in Los Angeles earlier this year. The quartet wrote 22 songs in their first six days together.

The first single is titled "Miracle Worker" and the band will be recording a video for the track.

Jagger and Stewart had worked together on the 2004 soundtrack to the film "Alfie" and Stewart produced Stone's last album. Both wanted to bring in a Jamaican musician and Marley entered the picture with his rhythm section, bassist and composer Shiah Coore and drummer Courtney Diedrick. They met Rahman while recording in Los Angeles.

According to the band's bio, SuperHeavy came together after Jagger and Stewart wondered what a band of musicians from different genres would sound like. Jagger had his doubts it would come together.

One of the first on the album is Jagger singing in Urdu. He takes lead on Rahman's song "Satyameva Jayate," which translates to "the truth alone triumphs."

"It's different from anything else I've ever been involved in," Jagger told Rolling Stone last month. "The music is very wide-ranging – from reggae to ballads to Indian songs in Urdu."

"We didn't know what the hell we were doing," added Stewart. "We were just jamming and making a noise. It was like when a band first starts up in your garage. Sometimes Damien would kick it off and then Joss would sing something on top of it. We might have a 22 minute jam, and it would become a six minute song."

This is a joke, isn't it? It reads like an article from "The Onion." I love Jagger, I love the Stones, but Sir Mick turns 68 years old next month, and I don't think it takes a masters degree in marketing to question how many consumers under the age of 50 are ever buy this album. Even the band's name--"Super Heavy"--seems designed to appeal to elderly hippies. Sir Mick has managed to go a half century without facing much in the way of any sort of negative consequences for his actions, and I'm sure that for this project, he has surrounded himself with people who are paid to nod their heads and reassure him of his genius. A 22-minute jam session? Jagger singing in Urdu? This is a joke, isn't it?

I'm sorry, I hate to be one of those people who gets on the internet and trashes pop culture in an effort to come off as a hip cynic, but on the surface, this whole project just seems terribly misguided. And, frankly, boring.

Aside from Jagger's documented businessman side, does he really give a damn about how many copies this will sell? Maybe the man is just looking to have some fun and do something outside of another lap on the Rolling Stones treadmill... and for whatever reason, Dave Stewart seems to have this kind of effect on other musicians.

Jimbo's silence in this thread is a source of concern.

I'm just hoping I can get an advance promo copy of the CD.

http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sect ... 045698&c=1

Launch date set for Jagger, Stewart and Stone Superheavy supergroup single
Saturday June 25, 2011
By Paul Williams, Stephen Jones

Universal has lined up a worldwide radio and commercial release date of July 7 for Miracle Worker, the first single from a newly-launched supergroup featuring Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart and Joss Stone.

Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack composer A R Rahman and reggae artist Damian Marley also feature as part of SuperHeavy, whose eponymous first album is due to be released via Universal’s A&M label on September 19.

Jagger told Music Week, “Dave really wanted to make a record with a different group of musicians; in other words, with different backgrounds of music. Instead of everyone being a rock musician, or basically a blues musician, or some other genre, he wanted to get as many genres together that would fit. I said,

‘It sounds like a good idea.’ I never thought it would actually happen.”

A&M UK managing director Orla Lee, who with her team is co-ordinating the project’s global roll-out, said the unique collection of the artists involved meant the campaign could target a wide range of fans both musically and geographically.

Lee, who also looks after The Rolling Stones for Universal, added, “On paper it maybe shouldn’t work but the combination of their voices together makes it work and when you look at it from a social-networking side

A R Rahman, for example, has 5m Facebook friends and The Rolling Stones 6.4m so you’ve got a truly global project.”

Ahead of the first single’s release, teaser images will roll out this week online and will include the album’s artwork, designed by American artist Shepard Fairey who was behind Barack Obama’s Hope poster for the 2008 US presidential election.

Other activity, including a video for the single, will follow in the run-up to SUPERHEAVY JAGGER HEADS UP A SUPERGROUP ALL SET TO PERFORM MIRACLES the album’s release.

SuperHeavy brings together Jagger and Stewart for the first time since they worked on the soundtrack to the 2004 remake of the movie Alfie, while Stewart explained to Music Week that Stone was an “obvious” addition to the group. “She’s such an incredible singer and spirit,” he said.

Marley’s involvement was born from Jagger and Stewart’s shared love of Jamaican music. “We’d always wanted a Jamaican musician because Mick and I are crazy about Jamaica and Jamaican music,” said Stewart.

As for Rahman, he ended up in the group as the album began to be recorded in his home city of Los Angeles and they crossed paths with him. “He brings so much musical knowledge, amazing musicianship, melody and singing power from a different culture,” Stewart explained.

In just the first six days together 26 songs were written by the collective, while recording spread from LA to the south of France, Turkey, Miami, the Caribbean and Chennai in India, the locations mirroring the variety of the musical and geographical backgrounds of the five members.

And, despite all those egos in the same studio, Jagger said they found a way of working harmoniously together.

“With five of you everyone has to give and take quite a lot. We tried to understand everyone wouldn’t be too egotistical, start throwing things around the studio, we wouldn’t have fights,” he said.

“We were writing a lot of stuff and throwing it away. I would say, ‘That’s rubbish, another cliché Joss,’ and she’d say, ‘Well, you come up with something then!’”

But what emerged, according to Jagger, was something refreshing for everyone involved. “We’re four vocalists. We’ve never worked like that before. It’s great because the whole burden’s not on you and that made it fun.”

I'm actually kind of intrigued by this.

Mick Jagger's SuperHeavy reveal debut album tracklisting
Joss Stone, AR Rahman, Damian 'Jr Gong' Marley and Dave Stewart are also involved

SuperHeavy, the supergroup made up of Mick Jagger, Joss Stone, AR Rahman, Damian 'Jr Gong' Marley and Dave Stewart, have revealed the tracklisting for their eponymously titled debut album.

'Superheavy' will be released on September 19, and was co-produced by Jagger and Stewart. The first single to be taken from the album is 'Miracle Worker', which was released last month. The video for the song will debut online tomorrow (August 12) at 12pm [BST].

The featured pictures are stills from the video, which sees the band playing 'live' on a street in Los Angeles. Jagger is apparently 'spoofing' his 1970s self in that flamboyant pink suit.

The album will be available in standard and deluxe versions, with the deluxe package featuring four bonus tracks and expanded Shepard Fairey artwork.

The 'Superheavy' tracklisting is:

'Superheavy
'Unbelievable'
'Miracle Worker'
'Energy'
'Satyameva Jayathe'
'One Day One Night'
'Never Gonna Change'
'Beautiful People'
'Rock Me Gently'
'I Can't Take It No More'
'I Don't Mind'
'World Keeps Turning'

Bonus tracks:
'Mihaya'
'Warring People'
'Common Ground'
'Hey Captain'

Now you can't just go around posting stuff like that without giving us a look...

The video is on Youtube:

i like it!

I also like it, and am surprised how well the five of them "fit" together!