Gotta Get a Grip (song)

"Gotta Get A Grip" / "England Lost"
Single by Mick Jagger
Released2017
Recorded2017
StudioElectric Lady Studios, New York
GenreRock
Length4:05
LabelInterscope / Polydor
Songwriter(s)Mick Jagger, Matt Clifford
Producer(s)Matt Clifford, Mick Jagger[1]
Mick Jagger singles chronology
"Old Habits Die Hard"
(2004) 		"Gotta Get A Grip" / "England Lost"
(2017) 		"Eazy Sleazy"
(2021)

"Gotta Get a Grip" / "England Lost" is a double A-sided single[2] by the English singer-songwriter and Rolling Stones frontman, Mick Jagger. The single was announced and subsequently released on 27 July 2017 along with accompanying music videos,[3][4] one day after the singer turned 74.[5] According to Jagger, the songs were written in April 2017 as a response to what he called the "confusion and frustration with the times we live in."[3][6] According to the same statement by Jagger, which was released on the same day, the song describes the "anxiety, unknowability of the changing political situation" in a post-Brexit UK.[7] The songs are the first solo-material that Jagger has released since Goddess In the Doorway was released in 2001.[7] A digital "Reimagined" EP was also released, including a longer version of "England Lost", featuring Skepta, and remixes of "Gotta Get a Grip" by Seeb, Kevin Parker of Tame Impala, Alok and producer Matt Clifford.[8][9]

  1. ^ "Discogs". Retrieved 2024-06-09.
  2. ^ "Mick Jagger Official Store".
  3. ^ a b "Mick Jagger Gets Political, Addresses U.K. 'Anxiety' on Two New Songs". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
  4. ^ "Mick Jagger releases 2 tracks in new audio-visual project". Daily Herald. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
  5. ^ "Reviewed: Mick Jagger's "England Lost" and "Gotta Get A Grip" - Uncut". Uncut. 2017-07-27. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
  6. ^ Reil, Maxwell. "Colbert's Trump cartoon to air on Showtime". Press of Atlantic City. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
  7. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ "Tame Impala's Kevin Parker Remixes New Mick Jagger Track "Gotta Get A Grip"". Vice. July 28, 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  9. ^ "Mick Jagger – Gotta Get A Grip (Alok Remix)". We Rave You. 4 August 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2023.