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The Most High-Security Recording Sessions Ever?

Alan Cross 2 Comments

[Note: I’ve seen this ship down in the Caribbean.  It has a helicopter pad and its own submarine, fer god’s sake. Blofeld would kill for this boat.]

From Business Insider:

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.

Read more: http://blog.jameslist.com/2011/mick-jagger%E2%80%99s-new-supergroup-takes-over-paul-allen%E2%80%99s-superyacht/#ixzz1ZaBk9P5d


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2 thoughts on “The Most High-Security Recording Sessions Ever?”

  • Unfortunately(*), they sailed a little too close to Somalia and got taken out by <I>actual</I> pirates.

    (*) By which I mean "fortunately".

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