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Mick Jagger: Sympathy for the RomeoHe writes tunes for the new Alfie update, and says he's a careerist, not a playboy. by VH1 Staff |
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Alfie, the chirpy title character of Jude Law's new movie, loves women more than life itself. He just doesn't love them for very long. So who better to sculpt the soundtrack to this new romantic dramedy (a remake of the 1966 original starring Michael
[Watch Mick Jagger and David A. Stewart create Alfie's soundtrack] You've got to experience the world of Alfie firsthand. Did you see the original? I don't really recall an awful lot of it, except that the character made Michael Caine a bigger star than he already was. Alfie is a character who comes up again and again throughout the last 300 or 400 years of literary history. He's a young man who has lots of girlfriends before realizing he has to settle down with one of them. I think there's a lot of that character in all young men and young women. I don't think it's only something that fits into a so-called '60s lifestyle or indeed a lifestyle of today. I think that's a stock human character. In fact, [it's] perhaps a biological necessity for people of a certain age. What is the difference between being a playboy and a rock star? There aren't any playboys any more. They don't exist any more. It's rather sad, really. They wrap themselves around trees in badly-driven sports cars. But I've always been a very career-minded person. Any vague resemblance of my life to a playboy's is merely coincidental! How does writing a soundtrack differ from working on one of your own albums? It's much more disciplined. You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on, too. You have to make these themes work in other scenes. We had this rather happy-go-lucky version of this tune "Old Habits Die Hard." But when we put it in this other scene [we had to] slow it down. It becomes a much more romantic or sadder tune than it initially first appears. Is it different writing with Stewart than it is with Keith Richards? There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs. I just spent two weeks writing songs with Keith. Some days I'm there on my own and Keith walks in and plays the bass on what I've written. Some days it's the reverse and I play the piano on something he's written. Dave and I are very concentrated. We like to do our work and get it done, because we can spend weeks doing this. Is it still a thrill for you to get onstage for a performance? It's a similar feeling to when I started. The thing about it is you never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave. You expect them to do certain things, but they don't always do that, and you don't always do the same things that you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio, [where] it's something much more under your control. Alfie, starring Jude Law and Marisa Tomei, is released Nov. 5. |
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