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Stones legend Mick Jagger — still smarting from a pen-lashing by bandmate Keith Richards — has set up a new supergroup with Eurythmics star Dave Stewart, Damian Marley, Joss Stone and Indian musician and producer A.R. Rahman.
Jagger, who was sharply and repeatedly needled in Richards’ best-selling autobiography, “Life,” has been secretly recording with Stewart, Bob Marley’s youngest son, jazz-influenced Stone and Grammy-winning Rahman, dubbed “The Mozart of Madras,” who won two Oscars for “Slumdog Millionaire.”
A source said, “They just finished a record and their first video and are talking to major labels about a deal. The name for the band at the moment is Super Heavy.” Another source said, “Each member has a very distinct and different style, but it works. Mick has been recording with Dave for a while, and both worked with Joss in the past.”
But a rep for Jagger told us, “They all thought it would be interesting and great fun to go into the studio and play some music. No video has been shot, no label in place. All a bit premature.”
But if the band is a hit, it could further divert Jagger’s attention from a speculated-about new Stones tour — especially since there’s currently no love lost between him and Richards, whose 2010 book was particularly withering about Jagger’s solo career.
Of Jagger’s first effort sans the Stones, 1985’s “She’s the Boss,” Richards wrote, “I’ve never listened to [it] the whole way through. Who has? It’s like ‘Mein Kampf.’ Everybody had a copy, but nobody listened to it.”
Jagger’s subsequent solo effort ” ‘Goddess in the Doorway’ . . . was irresistible to rechristen ‘Dog [Bleep] in the Doorway’ . . . [Mick] says I have bad manners on the subject. But this record deal of Mick’s was bad manners beyond any verbal jibes.” Richards also wrote that Jagger, whom he nicknamed “Your Majesty,” is packing “a tiny todger.”
“Sometimes I think, ‘I miss my friend,’ ” wrote Richards. “Where did he go?” Into the studio with someone else, it appears.