Goddess in the Doorway is the fourth
solo albumA solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is...
by
Mick JaggerSir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is a Golden Globe and Grammy Award winning English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, occasional film producer and actor, best known for his work as lead vocalist and frontman of The Rolling Stones.The Rolling Stones started in the early 1960s as a...
, released in 2001. The most recent offering from Jagger as a solo artist, it marked his first release with
Virgin RecordsVirgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. It was later sold to Thorn EMI, and then, in the US, merged with Capitol Records in 2007 to create the Capitol Music Group....
, whom he has been contracted with as a member of
The Rolling StonesThe Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards. Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early lineup...
since 1991.
Following 1993's
Wandering SpiritWandering Spirit is the third solo album by Mick Jagger and was released in 1993, Jagger's only solo album release of the 1990s. Jagger aimed to re-introduce himself as a solo artist in a musical climate vastly changed from what had witnessed the release of his first two projects, She's the Boss...
by Jagger, and The Rolling Stones'
Bridges to BabylonBridges to Babylon is an album by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1997. It would prove to be their final studio album of the 1990s and their last full-length release of new songs until 2005...
in 1997 and the extended
Bridges to Babylon TourThe Bridges to Babylon Tour was a 1997-1998 concert tour by The Rolling Stones, in support of their album Bridges to Babylon. After 1999's No Security Tour, they took again the tour...
, he began to work on demo material in 2000, finally reaching the studio in the spring of 2001.
Goddess in the Doorway is the fourth
solo albumA solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is...
by
Mick JaggerSir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is a Golden Globe and Grammy Award winning English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, occasional film producer and actor, best known for his work as lead vocalist and frontman of The Rolling Stones.The Rolling Stones started in the early 1960s as a...
, released in 2001. The most recent offering from Jagger as a solo artist, it marked his first release with
Virgin RecordsVirgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. It was later sold to Thorn EMI, and then, in the US, merged with Capitol Records in 2007 to create the Capitol Music Group....
, whom he has been contracted with as a member of
The Rolling StonesThe Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards. Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early lineup...
since 1991.
Following 1993's
Wandering SpiritWandering Spirit is the third solo album by Mick Jagger and was released in 1993, Jagger's only solo album release of the 1990s. Jagger aimed to re-introduce himself as a solo artist in a musical climate vastly changed from what had witnessed the release of his first two projects, She's the Boss...
by Jagger, and The Rolling Stones'
Bridges to BabylonBridges to Babylon is an album by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1997. It would prove to be their final studio album of the 1990s and their last full-length release of new songs until 2005...
in 1997 and the extended
Bridges to Babylon TourThe Bridges to Babylon Tour was a 1997-1998 concert tour by The Rolling Stones, in support of their album Bridges to Babylon. After 1999's No Security Tour, they took again the tour...
, he began to work on demo material in 2000, finally reaching the studio in the spring of 2001. Although Jagger would primarily work with
Marti FrederiksenMarti Frederiksen is a musician, producer, and songwriter best known for his work with many hard rock bands including Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Fuel, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne, Foreigner, Buckcherry and film soundtracks.-With Aerosmith:...
and Matt Clifford as producers, he also sanctioned the talents of
Lenny KravitzLeonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arranger whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads....
and
Wyclef JeanWyclef Neluset Jean is a multiplatinum Haitian-American musician, actor, producer and former-member of the hip hop trio The Fugees...
to help create
Goddess in the Doorway. And while the songs would largely be composed by Jagger, he endeavored to work with other collaborators, namely, Kravitz and Rob Thomas, lead vocalist of
Matchbox TwentyMatchbox Twenty is a rock band formed in Orlando, Florida. Matchbox Twenty has sold over 45 million albums worldwide from the releases of Yourself or Someone Like You, Mad Season, and More Than You Think You Are. They released their latest album, Exile on Mainstream, on October 2, 2007...
. The recording sessions of several of the album's tracks were featured in the documentary
Being MickBeing Mick is a 2001 television movie which chronicles the life of Mick Jagger for one year. Much of the film was filmed by Mick using a handheld camera. The film documents his recording of the Goddess in the Doorway album, as well as daily life including his family and friends...
.
While recording was underway, many of Jagger's musician friends, including
BonoPaul David Hewson, KBE , most commonly known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife,...
,
Pete TownshendPeter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career...
, Thomas, Kravitz, Jean and
Joe PerryAnthony Joseph Perry is the lead guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist, and contributing songwriter for the rock band Aerosmith...
all made contributions. Townshend, in fact, was the initiating force behind the album. After having heard some of Jagger's demos, he told him that they didn't sound like Rolling Stones songs and that Jagger should record them on his own.
By the end of the summer,
Goddess in the Doorway was initially completed and the Kravitz-produced (and almost self-performed) "God Gave Me Everything" was put forward as the lead single that October. Although the song failed to become a significant hit,
Goddess in the Doorway - with its hybrid of different styles—was released the following month to among the strongest reviews Jagger had received—including his tenure with The Rolling Stones—in years, with
Rolling StoneRolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J. Gleason.The magazine was named after the 1948 Muddy Waters song of the same...
's chief editor
Jann WennerJann Simon Wenner is the co-founder and publisher of the music and politics biweekly Rolling Stone, as well as the owner of Men's Journal and Us Weekly magazines.-Childhood:...
bestowing a five-star instant classic rating upon the album. However, not everyone was as effusive.
Keith RichardsKeith Richards is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm playing. In 2003 he was ranked 10th on Rolling Stone magazine's "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of...
, never comfortable with Jagger's solo career since it began in 1985, mocked the album by calling it "Dogshit in the Doorway".
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/story/0,,1099640,00.html
While the critical approval of
Goddess in the Doorway was gratifying for Jagger, the album only reached #44 in the UK and #39 in the US.
Following this, he returned to work with The Rolling Stones on
Forty LicksForty Licks is a double compilation album by The Rolling Stones. A forty-year career-spanning retrospective, Forty Licks is notable for being the first retrospective to combine the band's formative Decca/London era of the 1960s, now licensed by ABKCO Records , with their self-owned post-1970...
and
A Bigger BangA Bigger Bang is the twenty-second studio album by The Rolling Stones. It is a follow-up to their previous full-length studio album, 1997's Bridges to Babylon, and like Bridges to Babylon and its 1994 predecessor Voodoo Lounge, the album was again produced by Don Was and The Glimmer...
and their respective worldwide
LicksThe Licks Tour was a lengthy, truly worldwide concert tour held during 2002 and 2003 by The Rolling Stones. Its start was somewhat concurrent with the compilation album Forty Licks, which was released on October 1, 2002....
and
A Bigger Bang TourThe Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang Tour was a worldwide concert tour which took place between August 2005 and August 2007, in support of their album A Bigger Bang. The group played over 130 different songs on it...
s. Aside from his soundtrack work with
David A. StewartDavid Allan Stewart, often known as Dave Stewart is an English musician and record producer, best known for his work with Eurythmics...
on
Alfie in 2004, and the best of collection
The Very Best of Mick JaggerThe Very Best of Mick Jagger, the first overview of Mick Jagger's solo career, was released worldwide on 1 October 2007 and the following day in the United States on WEA/Rhino Records....
released in 2007,
Goddess in the Doorway remains Mick Jagger's latest solo release to date.
Track listing
All songs by
Mick JaggerSir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is a Golden Globe and Grammy Award winning English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, occasional film producer and actor, best known for his work as lead vocalist and frontman of The Rolling Stones.The Rolling Stones started in the early 1960s as a...
, except where noted.
- "Visions of Paradise" (Mick Jagger, Rob Thomas
Robert Kelly Thomas is an American rock recording artist and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Matchbox Twenty and formerly of the band Tabitha's Secret...
, Matt Clifford) – 4:02
- "Joy" – 4:41
- "Dancing in the Starlight" – 4:06
- "God Gave Me Everything" (Mick Jagger, Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arranger whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads....
) – 3:34
- "Hide Away" – 4:31
- "Don't Call Me Up" – 5:14
- "Goddess in the Doorway" (Mick Jagger, Matt Clifford) – 4:56
- "Lucky Day" – 4:51
- "Everybody Getting High" – 3:55
- "Gun" (Mick Jagger, Matt Clifford) – 4:39
- "Too Far Gone" – 4:34
- "Brand New Set of Rules" – 7:39
- Includes a hidden track
In the field of recorded music, a hidden track is a piece of music that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, vinyl record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener...
of lounge musicLounge music is a retrospective description of music popular in the 1950s and 1960s encompassing the exotica, easy listening, and space age pop genres. It is a type of mood music meant to evoke in the listeners the feeling of being in a place — a jungle, an island paradise, outer space, et cetera...
after the song concludes
Japanese edition bonus track
- "If Things Could Be Different" (Mick Jagger)" – 4:49
This song was also the B-side to "Visions of Paradise" in Europe and "Blue"—a 5:40 Mick Jagger composition—was the B-side of the European single "God Gave Me Everything" and the British single "Visions of Paradise"
Musicians
- Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is a Golden Globe and Grammy Award winning English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, occasional film producer and actor, best known for his work as lead vocalist and frontman of The Rolling Stones.The Rolling Stones started in the early 1960s as a...
– vocalsSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist...
, acousticAn acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only acoustic methods to project the sound produced by its strings. The term is a retronym, coined after the advent of electric guitars, which depend on electronic amplification to make their sound audible....
, electricAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses pickups to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current, which is made louder with an instrument amplifier and a speaker. The signal that comes from the guitar is sometimes electronically altered with guitar effects such as...
and slideSlide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide is in reference to the sliding motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides, which were the necks of glass bottles...
guitarThe guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...
, harmonicaThe harmonica is a free reed wind instrument which is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes. The pressure caused by blowing or drawing air into the reed chambers causes a reed or multiple reeds to vibrate up and down creating sound...
, percussionA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration...
, and backing vocalsA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
- Robert Aaron – keyboards
A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organs as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, hornThe horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....
, and fluteThe flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
- Kenny Aronoff
Kenny Aronoff is an American drummer. A former member of the hard rock band Cinderella, he has also played drums for several other musicians, including John Mellencamp, Bob Seger, Elton John, John Fogerty, Lynyrd Skynyrd,The Smashing Pumpkins, Jon Bon Jovi and Stryper.-Early career:After...
– drum kitA drum set is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person . The term "drum kit" first became used in the 1700s in Britain...
and Native AmericanThe indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples...
drums
- Ian Thomas
Ian Thomas may refer to:* Major W. Ian Thomas , Christian speaker and author* Ian Thomas , dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth II* Ian Thomas , Canadian singer-songwriter most popular in the 1970s and 1980s...
– drums
- Bono
Paul David Hewson, KBE , most commonly known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife,...
– vocals on "Joy"
- Lenny Castro
Lenny Castro is an American freelancing percussionist in the studio recording industry in the Los Angeles area.
-Early life:Castro is a percussionist of Puerto Rican descent and was born and raised in New York City. His father, Hector Castro, played the keyboard in a Latin style and gave his...
– percussion
- Paul Clarvis
Paul Clarvis is an English percussionist, born in Enfield, London, on 9 April 1963.He is renowned for bringing his unique style of music to many genres and can be heard on recordings by Mick Jagger, Elvis Costello, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Sting, Bryan Ferry, John Williams, Andy...
– percussion
- Matt Clifford – piano
The piano is a musical instrument which is played by means of a keyboard. Widely used in Western music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, HammondThe Hammond organ is an electric organ which was invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard...
organThe organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet...
, Fender RhodesThe Rhodes piano is an electromechanical musical instrument, a famous electric piano. Its distinctive sound has appeared in thousands of songs of all musical styles, since it was first introduced in 1965. Since its rennaisance in the 1990s, it has again become very popular and widely used...
, MellotronThe Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard. The heart of the instrument is a bank of parallel linear magnetic audio tapes,...
, keyboards, synthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument that is capable of producing a variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies...
, backing vocals, programming, drum programming, and stringA string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones. The most common string instruments in the string family are guitar, violin, viola,...
and horn arrangementIn music, an arrangement is either a rewriting of a piece of existing music with additional new material or a fleshing-out of a compositional sketch, such as a lead sheet...
- Kyle Cook
David Kyle Cook born August 29, 1975 in Frankfort, Indiana, is a member of the band Matchbox Twenty. He plays lead guitar, banjo and sings backing vocals for the band. He attended the Atlanta Music Institute. He also lived in Oviedo, Florida for a time...
– guitar
- Mike Dolan – guitar
- Jerry Duplessis – bass guitar
The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum....
- Christian Frederickson – bass guitar
- Marti Frederiksen
Marti Frederiksen is a musician, producer, and songwriter best known for his work with many hard rock bands including Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Fuel, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne, Foreigner, Buckcherry and film soundtracks.-With Aerosmith:...
– electric and acoustic guitar, drums, backing vocals, drum loop, and string arrangement
- Martin "Max" Heyes – drum programming
- Elizabeth Jagger
Elizabeth Scarlett Jagger is a model and actress.She is the oldest daughter of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall.-Early Life and Career:...
– backing vocals on "Brand New Set of Rules"
- Georgia May Jagger
Georgia May Ayeesha Jagger is an english model.She is the youngest daughter of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. Her siblings are Elizabeth Jagger, James Jagger and Gabriel Jagger, and her half-siblings are Karis Jagger, Jade Jagger, and Lucas Jagger.Jagger recently signed with Elite Model...
– backing vocals on "Brand New Set of Rules"
- Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Neluset Jean is a multiplatinum Haitian-American musician, actor, producer and former-member of the hip hop trio The Fugees...
– electric and Spanish guitar on "Hide Away"
- Jim Keltner
Jim Keltner is a session drummer who has contributed to the work of many well-known artists.-1970s:...
– drums
- Steve Knightley
Steve Knightley is a singer-songwriter, musician and one half of British acoustic roots duo Show of Hands. Phil Beer, the duo's other half, was previously with the English electric folk group the Albion Band, led by musician Ashley Hutchings, a founding member of Albion as well as Fairport...
– celloThe cello is a bowed string instrument. The word derives from the Italian violoncello. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra...
- Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arranger whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads....
– electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, tambourineThe tambourine or Marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils"...
, and backing vocals on "God Gave Me Everything"
- Milton McDonald
Mike "Milton" McDonald is a session guitarist. He has played with Patricia Kaas, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, The Spice Girls, S Club 7, Ray Davies, Take That, Robert Palmer, M People, Louise, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, Atomic Kitten, Hear'Say, Mylène Farmer, and Girls Aloud.McDonald also played...
– guitar
- Joe Perry
Anthony Joseph Perry is the lead guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist, and contributing songwriter for the rock band Aerosmith...
– guitar on "Everybody Getting High" and "Too Far Gone"
- Mikal Reid – trumpet
The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC...
and loop programming
- Craig Ross
Craig David Ross is an American guitarist best known for performing and recording with Lenny Kravitz.-Biography:Ross was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. In the 1980s, he was a member of the LA rock band Broken Homes; Ross went by the stage name Kreg Ross, and recorded 3 albums for MCA...
– 12-string acoustic guitar
- Neil Sidewell – trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
- Steve Sidwell
Steve Sidwell is a conductor, composer, and instrumentalist specialising in swing music. He is also the trumpeter for the Michael Nyman Band.He conducted the band during Robbie Williams' performance in the Royal Albert Hall...
– trumpet
- Phil Spalding
Phil Spalding is an English bass player. He played for the Bernie Tormé Band and Original Mirrors before joining Toyah in December 1980, where he recorded and co-wrote material for studio albums and toured with the band until 1983. Since then he has been a member of GTR and Mike Oldfield's band,...
– bass guitar
- Rob Thomas
Robert Kelly Thomas is an American rock recording artist and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Matchbox Twenty and formerly of the band Tabitha's Secret...
– backing vocals on "Visions of Paradise"
- Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career...
– guitar on "Joy" and "Gun"
- Ruby Turner
Ruby Turner is a British soul singer, songwriter and actress. In a career spanning a quarter of a century, Turner has had hit albums and singles on both sides of the Atlantic, and provided backing vocals for major popular music stars...
– backing vocals
- Chris White
Chris White is a English jazz/rock saxophonist who toured with Dire Straits from 1985 - 1995, and who has played with many bands and artists, including Robbie Williams, Paul McCartney, Chris De Burgh and Mick Jagger.-Biography:...
– tenor saxophoneThe tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, is the most common type of saxophone. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef,...
Sales chart performance
Album
| Year |
Chart |
Position |
| 2001 |
UK Top 75 Albums |
44 |
| 2001 |
The Billboard 200 |
39 |
| 2002 |
The Billboard 200 |
103 |
Singles
| Year |
Single |
Chart |
Position |
| 2001 |
"God Gave Me Everything" |
Mainstream Rock Tracks |
24 |
| 2002 |
"Visions of Paradise" |
UK Top 75 Singles |
43 |