The scathing indictment of poverty lead to the song being quite popular across the UK, which was riddled with. The song spent three weeks at number one and 10 weeks in total in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. The song is about Coventry and the city's high unemployment at the time. About Ghost Town 'Ghost Town' is a song by the British two-tone band the Specials, released on 12 June 1981.

But with the world on lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the frontman took another pass at the song’s lyrics, he told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, then finished the plague-times version of the track while he, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts were in isolation.Ī slinky-spooky blues-soul strut with faint echoes of “Some Girls,” “Living in a Ghost Town” - available on streaming services and with a YouTube video featuring footage from various deserted cities - has Jagger pondering the hours he’s spent alone just staring at his phone there’s also a harmonica solo and prominent turns by Darryl Jones on bass and Matt Clifford on keys. It spent 3 weeks at number 1 in the UK charts. Released with little warning Thursday morning, “Living in a Ghost Town” was originally written and recorded last year as part of a new studio album the Stones have been working on in Los Angeles and London. “If I wanna party, it’s a party of one,” Mick Jagger sings in the Rolling Stones’ new single, “Living in a Ghost Town,” and if that line resonates right now - well, that was the point. On Thursday, following a notable appearance on Global Citizen's all-star livestream concert, the Rolling Stones dropped 'Living in a Ghost Town,' their first original song since 2012.

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