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Rolling Stones' track slams George Bush
Aug 10, 2005, 11:10 GMT
It should come as no surprise that it took sex, disease and death to shake the Rolling Stones out of their latest creative dry spell. Leading up to the making of A Bigger Bang, produced by Don Was, Mick Jagger endured a very public break-up with Jerry Hall, Charlie Watts battled throat cancer, and Ron Wood was devastated by the news of his ex-wife\'s suicide. Out of their collective struggles, ...more
Mick Jagger has slammed President George W Bush in his new song 'Sweet Neo Con'.
The track, on the Rolling Stone's new album, 'A Bigger Bang', criticises Bush for calling himself a Patriot, and refers to the US president as a hypocrite.
Jagger sings: "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite."
You call yourself a patriot. Well I think you are full of s**t!"
Meanwhile, the British detective who busted Mick for drugs in 1968 says he wishes he had left the singer alone, because the aftermath of the arrest almost ruined him.
Former Metropolitan police sergeant Robin Constable was accused by Jagger of planting heroin in his London home and then offering to drop the possession charge in exchange for $1,800.
Constable vehemently denies the accusation but was subsequently forced to abandon a libel action against Jagger when he ran out of money
He said: "We went so far and stopped. It was going to cost us a lot of money so we settled our grievances."
The new album is available to pre-order via Amazon and Amazon UK.
View a track listing from A Bigger Bang.
Copyright 2005 BANG Media International
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