- The song "Living in a Ghost Town".was released on April 23, 2020 by Polydor Records.
- It is the first single from the Rolling Stones in four years, and their first original composition since "Doom and Gloom" and "One More Shot" in 2012.
- The song was recorded during sessions for an upcoming studio album the band has been working on since 2015, but was released early due to its thematic and symbolic correspondence to the COVID-19 pandemic and the containment measures it brought about worldwide
- The band had been on an uninterrupted tour since 2017, as part of the No Filter Tour, but had to interrupt it due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The Rolling Stones performed remotely at Global Citizen's Together at Home concert on April 18, 2020, to raise money for health care professionals and the World Health Organization during the crisis.
- On April 23, the band posted "Living in a Ghost Town," its first original composition since 2012
- The track is from the 2019 recording sessions, and was completed remotely.
- The band fast-tracked the song's release because of its relevance to the physical removal and even containment measures that have been put in place in many countries around the world as methods of controlling the spread of the virus
- Jagger said he wrote the lyrics in 10 minutes; he then reportedly revised some passages to refer to the ongoing pandemic.
