Undercover  by The Rolling Stones

Undercover is the seventeenth studio album by the Rolling Stones, which was released in 1983. The band collaborated with producer Chris Kimsey. The Rolling Stones hadn't worked with another producer since 1973. The album actually contains the first songs that the Rolling Stones wrote in the 1980s.

This is where the problems began as during the composition and recording process of the album, very intense arguments erupted between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The former wanted the band to take a musical direction towards new wave and any other dominant musical trend of the early '80s, while the latter insisted on returning to the blues rock direction that had made them famous. Thus, in order to satisfy both, some songs follow the experiments that Jagger wanted and others follow Richards' desires - in reality, Mick Jagger's opinion seems to have dominated, and this is evident from which songs were selected as singles. This, however, was not enough because the relationship between the two had become strained for good. Something that would escalate into a snowball effect in their next work.

Undercover was not a triumph for the Rolling Stones. The album remained at No. 3 in Britain and No. 4 in the U.S., which might have been great positions for others, but they seemed few for the Rolling Stones.