The recording session for the first album from Mick Jagger’s new supergroup SuperHeavy had to be top secret to foil music pirates and such, and apparently no recording studio on Earth was secure enough.
So the wrinkly Rolling Stone and friends took to the high seas, and laid down some tracks aboard Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen’s megayacht Octopus.
One of the rooms on the enormous 414 ft. vessel, the world’s 12th largest, is already a music studio and so served as a haven for Jagger and bandmates ex-Eurythmic Dave Stewart, singer Joss Stone, Bob Marley’s son Damian and award-winning Indian composer AR Rahman, the London Daily Mirror reports.
Designed by the famed Espen Oeino and built by Germany’s Lürssen in 2003, Octopus features two helicopters, two submarines, seven tenders, a swimming pool and a basketball court.
Jagger, who is worth an estimated $280 million, could not afford such a floating palace but super-nerdy Allen is a music buff who insisted on joining The Band’s Robbie Robertson on stage when the latter was presented with an award at the billionaire’s oddball Experience Music Project / Science Fiction Hall of Fame in Seattle. Who knows, maybe he made joining Superheavy on a set a condition of the loaner….
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