Goddess In The Doorway

Goddess in the Doorway is the fourth solo album by Mick Jagger and was released in 2001. The most recent offering from Jagger as a solo artist, it marked his first release with Virgin Records, whom he has been contracted with as a member of The Rolling Stones since 1991.

Following 1993’s Wandering Spirit by Jagger, and The Rolling Stones’ Bridges to Babylon in 1997 and the extended Bridges to Babylon Tour, he began to work on demo material in 2000, finally reaching the studio in the spring of 2001. Although Jagger would primarily work with Marti Frederiksen and Matt Clifford as producers, he also sanctioned the talents of Lenny Kravitz and Wyclef Jean to help create Goddess in the Doorway. And while the songs would largely be composed by Jagger, he endeavored to work with some collaborators, namely, Kravitz and matchbox twenty singer Rob Thomas. The recording of many of the songs is shown in the film Being Mick.

While recording was underway, many of Jagger’s musician friends, including Bono, Pete Townshend, Thomas, Kravitz, Jean and Joe Perry all contributed. Townshend, in fact, was the initiating force behind the album. After having heard some of Jagger’s demos, he told him that they didn’t sound like Rolling Stones songs and that Jagger should record them on his own.

By the end of the summer, Goddess in the Doorway was completed and the Kravitz-produced (and almost self-performed) “God Gave Me Everything” was put forward as the lead single that October.