The Rolling Stones have dropped the music video for their song Scarlet, starring Normal People star Paul Mescal. The Emmy nominated actor danced around the five-star London Claridge’s hotel, pining after a lost love, in a socially distanced photoshoot.
Talking about the video, an inside source told the Sun; “It’s a massive collaboration and a great coup to get Paul on board. He’s one of the biggest stars in the world right now, but obviously he was keen to work with some music legends too. Universal managed to pull off the partnership at just the right time, and everyone involved is seriously excited. Paul plays a hunky party boy in the film, and no doubt there will be a whole new set of fans of his who will want to check it out too, as well as the band’s fanbase.”
Scarlet is one of three previously unreleased songs that will appear on the upcoming deluxe edition of Goats Head Soup, set to come out September 4th. The song was recorded in 1974 with Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page playing guitar.
Remembering the day, Keith Richards said in a statement; “My recollection is we walked in at the end of a Zeppelin session, they were just leaving, and we were booked in next and I believe that Jimmy decided to stay. We weren’t actually cutting it as a track; it was basically for a demo, a demonstration, you know, just to get the feel of it, but it came out well, with a line-up like that, you know, we better use it.”
Paul Mescal has really shot to fame this year after he starred in the hit BBC show Normal People with Daisy Edgar-Jones. He also recently performed with Dermot Kennedy in the Natural History Museum.
Scarlet is out now on all platforms. The deluxe album Goats Head Soup will be available everywhere on the 4th September.
