Stones have No Spare Parts
You can't always get what you want, but this Christmas you would be well advised to pick up the Rolling Stones' incredible Some Girls box set. Alongside the many unearthed highlights (the deeply inappropriate groove of "So Young", the Hank Williams cover "You Win Again" and Keith Richards' bruised rendition of "We Had It All"), it also includes "No Spare Parts" whose video has just been released. Originally dating back to a Parisian recording session in 1978, but reportedly now with newly recorded vocals by Mick Jagger, "No Spare Parts" moves like a classic Bourbon-soaked Stones country track. The video was put together from archive footage by Mat Whitecross, the director of Ian Dury biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. Asking "Where were you in 1978?" the video intercuts footage of the Stones' now-legendary tour of America with newsreel showing soliders on foreign soil, trouble in the Middle East and rioters in the streets. All rather familiar - now we just need the Stones tour to match the news cycle.
The Rolling Stones Some Girls: Deluxe Edition is out now. rollingstones.com
