Keith Richards says Lady Gaga 'snaked' onto Stones album by 'taking over' studio

24 October 2023 , 20:22

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Lady Gaga (Image: Felipe Ramales / SplashNews.com)

It’s not just snake hips Mick Jagger who slithers and wriggles his way through Rolling Stones songs.

Lady Gaga “snaked her way” onto the group’s new album, by sliding into their recording studio in the middle of a session where she promptly “took it over”, according to Keith Richards. The group had already planned to collaborate with Stevie Wonder on Sweet Sounds of Heaven, and Gaga happened to be in the same studios.

“It was such a spontaneous and organic session,” explains Keith. “We knew that Stevie was coming by and I think Gaga only dropped in because she happened to be working in a studio across the hallway and just walked in, in the middle of the take and started to work her way in.

Gaga performing with the Stones (Getty Images for RS)

“She snaked her way in there and took it over and gave as good as she got with Mick and it was great fun.” The latest album Hackney Diamonds is currently outselling the rest of the Top 10 combined in the UK album charts, and finally features Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney after 60 years in the industry together.

“I felt that it was about bloody time,” Keith tells Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1. “Although John (Lennon) and him did do a few backup vocals with us in the 1960s.” Meanwhile, Keith says a hologram tour is “bound to happen” for the Stones, but hints it will be against his wishes, even posthumously. “Do I want it? Now, that’s another thing,” he continues. “But at the same time, it won’t be up to me, will it?” Every cloud.

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