Doom and Gloom

"Doom and Gloom"
Single by the Rolling Stones
from the album GRRR!
Released11 October 2012
Recorded22–23 August 2012
StudioGuillaume Tell Studios (Paris, France)
GenreHard rock, blues rock
Length3:59
LabelUniversal Music
Songwriter(s)Jagger–Richards
Producer(s)Don Was, The Glimmer Twins, Jeff Bhasker, Emile Haynie (co.)
The Rolling Stones singles chronology
"No Spare Parts"
(2011)
"Doom and Gloom"
(2012)
"One More Shot"
(2013)

"Doom and Gloom" is the lead single taken from GRRR!, the 50th anniversary compilation album by the Rolling Stones. It was premiered on BBC Radio 2 on 11 October 2012. The song's recording marked the first time that Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood had been in the studio together for seven years, since completing their 2005 album A Bigger Bang.[1] A lyric video was released on YouTube the same day.[2]

The song charted at No. 61 on the UK Singles Chart, No. 26 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 and No. 30 on the Billboard Rock Songs chart in October 2012.

Rolling Stone magazine named "Doom and Gloom" the eighteenth best song of 2012.[3]

  1. ^ "Brand New Rolling Stones Single "Doom And Gloom" Released on Thursday". The Rolling Stones. Archived from the original on 5 June 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
  2. ^ "The Rolling Stones – Doom And Gloom (Lyric Video)". 25 July 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2012 – via YouTube.
  3. ^ "50 Best Songs of 2012: The Rolling Stones, 'Doom and Gloom'". Rolling Stone. 5 December 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2014.