Mick Jagger's 'Goddess in the Doorway': The Solo Album That Tried to Go New Millennium

By 2001, Mick Jagger was a rock icon pushing sixty, and he knew the Rolling Stones’ classic sound wasn’t going to chase younger listeners. So for his fourth solo album, Goddess in the Doorway, he packed the guest list with guys who were hot at the turn of the century: Lenny Kravitz co-wrote and played on four tracks, Bono lent vocals to “Joy” (a co-write with Flea), and Wyclef Jean produced the urban-tinged “Don’t Call Me.” Jagger was trying on neo-soul, hip-hop beats, and glossy pop-rock—stuff that fit on the radio alongside Dido and U2’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind.

The reviews were polite but mostly shrugged, and sales were a fraction of his earlier solo work. The album sold around 250,000