“Don't Stop” by The Rolling Stones

"Don't Stop" was a new song the Rolling Stones tucked onto Forty Licks, their 2002 compilation, and while it carries the Jagger-Richards credit, Mick Jagger did most of the heavy lifting. He started writing it while getting ready for his 2001 solo album Goddess in the Doorway, and he has explained why it never ended up there: on his own records he tries to dodge the band's clichés, and this one sounded so much like the Stones that he set it aside.

He called it right. It's a lean, grinning slab of Stones business, with Darryl Jones on bass and Chuck Leavell on keyboards, Don Was producing and Bob Clearmountain mixing it to a shine.

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