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Friday 26 February 2016
Mick Jagger continues work as producer with HBO’s ‘Vinyl’
MESFIN FEKADU ger. time and place for this par- In this Jan. 15, 2016 file photo, Mick Jagger attends the pre-
AP Music Writer “Obviously it’s fictional,” ticular company.” miere of HBO’s new drama series “Vinyl”, at the Ziegfeld Theatre
LOS ANGELES (AP) — As Jagger says with a laugh. In the series, which airs at 9 in New York.
Mick Jagger is driving “It’s a drama series and in p.m. EST on Sundays, Jag-
around Latin America on a drama series you really ger’s 30-year-old son plays Associated Press
tour with The Rolling Stones, want to bring out the char- the role of Kip Stevens, the
he’s seeing familiar adver- acters, the narrative ... hav- lead singer of the punk rock Series — Volume 1” was taries, said he’s never been
tisements promoting his ing said that, of course you band Nasty Bits. released this month and interested in being a re-
latest project plastered also want to instill in people “Well, first of all, I thought “Vinyl: Music from the HBO cord label head like Can-
around town. the sense of the times and he was really good so I Original Series — Volume 1: navale’s character in “Vi-
This time it’s not his music — you want them to buy in didn’t have to worry too Finale” will be released on nyl.”
but the HBO series “Vinyl,” that. ...You have to make much. I mean, if he was re- April 15, two days before “Everyone has their little im-
which he created and ex- it believable — that’s our ally, really not good, may- the 10-episode first season print, but actually owning
ecutive produced. overarching goal, whether be I wouldn’t have been wraps. Digital EPs will be something like that would
“I’m in Argentina and I’m it’s actually true or not.” the one to tell him,” Jagger released Friday with music drive me nuts. Literally
driving to the gig and there Jagger said filming the said. from the series. nuts,” he said. “We want to
are big billboards on the show — which he created “I was really pleased with Jagger, who has been be an artist; you don’t real-
freeway, ‘Vinyl!’” he says with Martin Scorsese — re- his performance.” busying producing TV se- ly want to be involved too
happily over the phone. minded him of the 1970s The Jaggers worked to- ries’, films and documen- much business.”q
“It’s quite funny really.” when the Stones were gether on the song “Rotten
The show about the music dominating the music Apple,” which Nasty Bits
industry in the 1970s de- scene and touring around perform in the debut epi-
buted this month and has the world. sode on “Vinyl.”
already been renewed for “I never worked at a re- The icon added that he
a second season. It stars cording company like that didn’t think of recording
Bobby Cannavale as a because in that time I was his own music for the series
troubled record executive working at Atlantic Re- — “I wouldn’t say it would
in a music industry mixed cords with Ahmet Ertegun, never happen” — but mu-
with drugs and sex; other and there’s some of that in sic from others for the show
cast members include Ray there, but it’s a combina- has been released and
Romano, Olivia Wilde and tion of a lot of things,” he more will come. “Vinyl: Mu-
Jagger’s son, James Jag- said. “It’s a particular crazy sic from the HBO Original
