The Rolling Stones drop Who You Callin’ Crazy with a Courtney Pine sax solo

The Rolling Stones have released Who You Callin’ Crazy without warning, a new single that hands its saxophone solo to Courtney Pine, one of the best-known names in British jazz. It is the second preview of Foreign Tongues, Loose Lips, the expanded edition of the band’s latest album, and the first of its extra songs that fans had never heard in any form. It premiered on Vernon Kay’s BBC Radio 2 show, with a voice note from Mick Jagger: “It’s The Rolling Stones’ new single, so I hope you like it.”

Bands more than six decades into their career rarely keep feeding an album after its chart run. The Stones are doing the opposite. Foreign Tongues was already their second record of new songs in under three years, and the deluxe edition adds five more recordings from the same sessions. A frontman in his 80s is now surprise-dropping songs the way a young act would, and that pace is the story as much as the song.

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Musically, the track lightens the mood of an album on which several songs take aim at the very rich. NME heard an uplifting, feel-good song, and Clash called it a raucous return. Jagger opens as a man under suspicion, nervous and “squirming like a rat in a trap”, before the chorus turns the accusation back on the accuser with a wall of backing singers behind him.

Pine is the surprise in the credits. A fixture of London jazz for four decades, he had already hinted at the session. “I’ve just done another session a couple of weeks ago with him [Jagger] for The Rolling Stones,” he said, as Far Out reported, adding: “Mick’s an amazing artist. That whole pop world is completely different to anything that I know.” On a band record built around guitars, his horn is the sound that changes the colour.

Around him is the band’s current studio line-up. Jagger and Keith Richards wrote the song, Andrew Watt produced it and plays bass, Richards and Ronnie Wood play guitar, Steve Jordan is on drums and Matt Clifford covers piano, organ and Rhodes. The other new songs on the deluxe set are Where There’s A Will, with Steve Winwood on organ, Human Tide, She Still Comes Around and Bad Luck Hideaway, the Jagger and Richards duet with drums by the late Charlie Watts.

The release also revives an old complaint about deluxe editions. Songs that did not make the original 14-track album now return as a reason to buy it a second time, only months after release. Critics never agreed on Foreign Tongues in the first place: The Times gave it five stars and called it a career high, Paste graded it D+, and NME settled on three and a half stars. Fans hoping to hear any of this live have no answer yet either, in any market. According to NME, Richards cannot commit to a full-scale tour, and Wood put it bluntly: “I know Mick is busting to go, and Keith is not busting to go.”

Who You Callin’ Crazy came out on October 20, 2026 through Polydor and runs just over four minutes. Foreign Tongues, released on July 10, 2026, followed the Grammy-winning Hackney Diamonds and topped the charts in 14 countries.

Foreign Tongues, Loose Lips arrives on November 27 on vinyl, 2CD and digital. Jagger has told NME he hopes to play live again in 2027, but the band has yet to announce a single date.

Tags: rock, Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones, Foreign Tongues, Courtney Pine, Who You Callin' Crazy

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