The Beatles legend plays bass on &34;Covered in You,&34; a track off the Stones' new album, &34;Foreign Tongues.&34; Mick Jagger questioned if Paul McCartney could pull off Rolling Stones collab: 'No mucking about' The Beatles legend plays bass on &34;Covered in You,&34; a track off the Stones' new album, &34;Foreign Tongues.&34; By Kathleen Perricone July 1, 2026 7:17 p.m. ET Leave a Comment :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/SirPaulMcCartneyandMickJagger070126f12347a793d64f6eb1f97945c75f464d.jpg) Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger in New York in 2011.

The Beatles legend plays bass on "Covered in You," a track off the Stones' new album, "Foreign Tongues."

Mick Jagger questioned if Paul McCartney could pull off Rolling Stones collab: 'No mucking about'

The Beatles legend plays bass on "Covered in You," a track off the Stones' new album, "Foreign Tongues."

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July 1, 2026 7:17 p.m. ET

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Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger in New York in 2011. Credit:

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- Paul McCartney plays bass on a song off the new Rolling Stones album, *Foreign Tongues*.

- Before recording together, Mick Jagger questioned if McCartney could pull it off: "It's gonna be simple, no mucking about."

- Ultimately, the Beatles legend "did exactly what was needed in like 10 minutes," Jagger raved.

Paul McCartney has been playing the bass for 65 years, yet Mick Jagger had some initial reservations before recording new Rolling Stones music together.

The Beatles legend lent his musical talents to the band for "Covered in You," a track off their 25th album, *Foreign Tongues*, which also features guest contributions from the Cure's Robert Smith, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Bruno Mars (on the cowbell), and Steve Winwood.

Although Jagger has known McCartney "for ages," they'd only sung together previously, in 1967 on the Stones' song "We Love You," also featuring John Lennon.

"He's not a stranger, but he's never played bass with us before," Jagger told NME. "It's a different thing, you know?"

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Before heading into the studio with McCartney back in 2023, when he also recorded "Bite My Head Off" for the band's last album, *Hackney Diamonds*, Jagger took aside their producer Andy Watt.

"I said to Andy, 'Is he gonna be into this? Because it's a punk tune and it's going to go really fast and I want overdriven bass," Jagger recalled. "It's gonna be simple, no mucking about.' But he said, 'No, no, no Paul can do that.' And he did it. He did exactly what was needed in like 10 minutes."

The short session was just as sweet for McCartney.

The solo star, whose last album with the Beatles was 1970's *Let It Be*, was "chuffed" to be recording with a band again, much less the Rolling Stones.

Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, and Keith Richards at the 'Foreign Tongues' launch event on May 5 in Brooklyn.

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"It was really nice to just show up at a studio with your bass and just say, 'Right, where do you want me?'" McCartney told NME in a recent interview. "You start playing, and they show you the song, and I start thinking, 'I'm playing with the Stones!'"

While recording "Covered in You," McCartney also got a front row seat to how the Stones work their magic in the studio.

"I could hear Keith as we did various takes working his his lick out," he recalled, "and Ronnie working his solo out, Mick working the vocal out."

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Jagger recently addressed the longstanding rumors that there had been a rivalry between the Beatles and the Stones back in the 1960s, as both British bands rose to worldwide fame.

"I think there was an element of truth in it," the frontman admitted during *Today* show's Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist. "But I think there was an element of PR in it, too. But it was also London [versus] Liverpool, so it's a bit like L.A. [and] New York. Obviously, that was a good talking point for press to get on."

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Published: July 2, 2026 at 03:00AM on Source: MANUEL MAG

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