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Keith Richards is planning to record a new Rolling Stones album next year.
The 'Satisfaction' rockers haven't released an album of new material since 2005's 'A Bigger Bang' but Keith is hoping that will change by getting them in the studio in April.
After admitting the band had a "little chat" about recording new music when they recently met up, the 71-year-old rocker insisted it should happen because they're better musicians now than when they were younger.
He said: "These guys aren't getting any younger, but at the same time, they're getting better.
"I'd love to shove them in the studio in April, hot off the road."
The band - which also features Sir Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood in its current line-up - toured the US last year and will launch a major exhibition based on their years of fame titled 'Exhibitionism' next year.
And although he keeps active, Keith admitted he's surprised he's still going strong.
He said: "It's my turn for growing old. I never thought I'd get this far.
"Now, I have to think about this and wonder what to do with it. I don't know, man."
In September, Keith put out his third solo album 'Crosseyed Heart' which was his first release on his own in 23 years.

Taylor Swift is being sued for £27 million over 'Shake It Off'.
The 25-year-old singer released the hit track last year but R&B artist Jesse Braham claims she took the lyrics from his 2013 song 'Haters Gone Hate'.
His song features the lyrics: "Haters gone hater, playas gone play... Watch out for them fakers, they'll fake you everyday."
And he claims the words were lifted and used in Taylor's song, in which she sings: "Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play/ And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate," and "And the fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake."
According to New York Daily News, he is now embarking on a lawsuit worth $42 million and wants to be recognised on the track.
He said: "At first I was going to let it go, but this song is my song all the way.
"Her hook is the same hook as mine. If I didn't write the song 'Haters Gone Hate', there wouldn't be a song called 'Shake It Off'."
'Shake It Off' - which was the lead single from her multi-million selling album '1989' - was written by songwriters Max Martin and Shellback along with Taylor, who claims it's about being scrutinised by the public.
She previously explained: "I've had every part of my life dissected - my choices, my actions, my words, my body, my style and my music. When you live your life under that kind of scrutiny, you can either let it break you or you can get really good at dodging punches. Then when one lands, you know how to deal with it. And I guess the way that I deal with it, is to shake it off."

Rihanna is really "worried" about her new album.
The 'Diamonds' hitmaker - whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty - is planning to tweak her forthcoming collection entitled 'Anti' - her first in three years - because she's "uncomfortable and unhappy" with the tracks.
Rihanna's father Ronald, who has claimed he's heard 26 song she's recorded for the album, said: "Robyn is not happy with the new album. She's not comfortable with it.
"When she went over the songs she found all these little things she wanted to change and was worried about it. It's a long process and isn't easy.
"It's been three years now since her last album and she wants this to blow everything else away, no competition, because she's calling it her 'first album.' "
'Anti' was initially planned for release by the end of the year but it looks like the 27-year-old singer is hoping to push it back in order to create more content.
He added: "She has some things she likes but wants something more. To her it's not ready ... She's still looking for fresh material and has the energy for it."
And it seems Rihanna - who has previously collaborated with Drake, Jay Z, Kanye West and Eminem - hasn't teamed up with many other artists this time around either.
Ronald explained to The Sun newspaper: "A lot of times she has someone else singing with her and the collaborations always do good but this time she has a lot by herself.
"And you don't miss the other singers as she's so good."

Guy Garvey used to think alcohol helped him to write songs.
The Elbow frontman, 41, has admitted he would guzzle down bottles of booze prior to his songwriting sessions because he believed, at the time, that his blurred mentality allowed him to pen tracks more easily.
He explained to the Guardian's Weekend magazine: "I'm ashamed to say I could polish off a bottle without a problem. I could have this conversation after a bottle of scotch."
He added with a grin: "I used to think booze helped me write. It doesn't at all. I used to convince myself it was a necessary part, but that's b******s."
However, the singer - who released his debut solo album recently - has now realised that some of the best work he has created has been while he was sober.
He said: "The drinking was all part of the garret, the romance of the swinging lightbulb, the dedicating my life to unpaid art idea. Tortured in my 20s - all part of that."

Alicia Keys is teaching her children to have compassion.
The 34-year-old singer, who has sons Egypt, five, and Genesis, 10 months, with music producer husband Swizz Beatz, is devoted to helping raise funds for the fight against HIV and AIDS and hopes her family will get involved in her Keep a Child Alive foundation in the future.
She said: "Now that I'm a mom, I realise we also have to talk to our kids about having compassion for people infected or affected by AIDS."
The 'Girl on Fire' hitmaker decided to co-found her own charity after visiting South Africa near the beginning of her career, where she visited clinics where mothers had babies battling the life-threatening disease.
She told PEOPLE: "They just wanted medicine to keep them alive. It thought, 'How can something be available, but you can't have it because you're poor?' That's why I co-founded Keep a Child Alive, and we started the annual Black Ball fundraiser."
The singer believes she is making a huge impact and has helped a lot of people.
She explained: "About a decade ago I met a young girl who had lost both of her parents. A few years ago she interviewed me at a radio station in South Africa. I was bursting with pride. Because of the support of Keep a Child Alive she is going to be such a powerful force in society. My dream is to know that we have created an AIDS-free generation."

Ben Haenow would like to join Little Mix.
The 2014 'X Factor' winner has admitted he would love to become a member of the girl group - consisting of Perrie Edwards, Jade Thirlwall, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, and Jesy Nelson - because he's got some killer dance moves to teach them.
Asked if he'd prefer to join Little Mix or One Direction, he told heat magazine: "I will join Little Mix. My dance moves are fantastic - I've probably got a few I could teach the girls. My signature move? Probably the running man, or the worm. It depends on how many beers I've had, to be brutally honest."
Meanwhile, the 30-year-old singer recently signed with RCA Records - which is also home to the likes of Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and Justin Timberlake - after impressing label bosses with his debut single 'Second Hand Heart'.
A source said previously: "Ben is chuffed with the news. He was always aiming to make it over in the States, especially after spending so much of his time over there while recording his debut album."
The handsome singer previously admitted he hoped the song, which is a duet act with Kelly Clarkson, had the potential to boost his chances of cracking America.
He told BANG Showbiz earlier this month: "I'd like to think so. I think we've got a great start with Kelly being on board."
But Ben confessed the track wasn't originally intended to be a duet and only turned into one when he returned to the UK after working on the track abroad.

James Bay would sleep listening to Eric Clapton as a child.
The 25-year-old singer-songwriter has revealed his award-winning career was inspired by the work of the 'Layla' hitmaker, who is widely recognised as one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
James said: "I listened to this dad record because I was obsessed with everything Eric Clapton did after the first time I heard the 'Layla' riff.
"I was 11 years old when I heard this and at that age you don't care about cool. Unplugged was the next step for me.
"I wanted to be more than just an electric guitar player after that. It taught me a lot about simple and tasteful playing, I listened to it all the time. I played along with it, I'd go asleep to it, I'd play it to friends."
James also revealed he still has vivid memories of music and culture during his childhood days.
Recalling being a kid in the 90s, he told Q magazine: "I was 10 at the end of the '90s so I mainly listened to pop music ... what I remember from the time is people wearing lot sof primary colours.
"Massive jumpers with Umbro logos, very blue jeans, very white trainers and haircuts that looked like people had put a vowl on their head and chopped around the edges. And I remember Power Rangers!

Hailee Steinfeld loves the "edge" of her ambiguous new single.
The 18-year-old star admits that, as well as 'Love Myself's theme of empowerment, there are also suggestions the track is about masturbation, and she doesn't mind how people interpret the lyrics.
She told Grazie magazine: "Oh believe me, [suggestions of masturbation] have been discussed. It's been talked about.
"But listen, whatever the song might be about, and however anyone interprets it, that edge is what I love about it."
The 'Pitch Perfect 2' star is enjoying her new career direction, admitting that music is more personal than acting.
She explained: "With movies I'm used to telling someone else's story. With music, I'm able to tell my own."
Hailee recently admitted she was feeling nervous about playing her music for friend Taylor Swift.
The teenage star - whose film credits include the 2010 hit 'True Grit' - said: "I'm nervous to play her anything. I'm nervous to show her any of my movies, but yeah, she's very supportive.
"[Music] is always been something that I wanted to do. It's always been a part of my plan and it's always been a matter of when and now is when."

Black Sabbath will not make any more studio albums.
Frontman Ozzy Osbourne has scrapped plans to follow up 2013's number one LP '13' and will supposedly call an "end" to Sabbath on 21 September 2016, when they play their final concert in Phoenix.
Ozzy, 66, told The Pulse of Radio: "We were gonna do one [album] before the tour, but I'm 67 in December, it would take three or four years to write and record an album. And so we decided just to do a farewell tour. If we did an album and it went to No. 2, people would go, 'It's over.' There's only one more place you can go after No. 1 and that's No. 2, you know."
However, Ozzy insists just because Black Sabbath are getting ready to put a full stop on their legendary career it doesn't mean he won't ever play live again with bandmates Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi.
The 'Paranoid' hitmaker told the New Orleans Times-Picayune: "It's the end of Sabbath, believe me.
"In December, I'll be f***ing 67 and I think it's time to call it the end of the day. I'm not saying I won't get on stage with Geezer or Tony (Iommi) or any of them some time, but officially we're going to be done."
Ozzy also said he's not motivated to tour just to make money and when he steps back from touring he will instead focus on his solo projects, such as taking his festival OZZFest to Japan.
He added: "I don't want it to dwindle and dwindle and play just for the sake of making another f***ing sack full of cash. So it's time, and then I'll go back to doing my own thing."