Mick Jagger Reacts To Sam Fender's Rolling Stones Cover For New John Lewis Ad

Sir Mick Jagger has already given Sam Fender’s fresh take on a Rolling Stones classic for this year’s John Lewis Christmas advert his personal seal of approval.

On Tuesday morning, John Lewis unveiled the 20th of its annual festive ad campaigns, which prominently features Sam’s cover of the signature Rolling Stones tune You Can’t Always Get What You Want.

In a press release, Sir Mick revealed that he had already been “a fan of Sam’s work” when he found out about the Brit Award winner’s new recording, enthusing: “I was pleased to hear he was covering one of my songs.”

The veteran rocker added: “I think he’s done a great job with it.”

Sam was similarly effusive about the Rolling Stones frontman’s music, saying that it had been “a privilege to rework such an iconic song by such a legendary band” after the ad was unveiled.

He also shared that “in the spirit of Christmas”, his version of You Can’t Always Get What You Want featured a children’s choir made up of “kids from my old school, John Spence Community High School”, as well as the Easington Colliery Band on the brass section, a local music group from the North East of England, where the chart-topper was born and raised.

You Can’t Always Get What You Want was originally featured on the Rolling Stones’ 1969 album Let It Bleed.

It has gone on to become one of the band’s most popular musical offerings, and was later declared by Rolling Stone to be among the “greatest songs of all time”.

John Lewis’ new Christmas ad features Kristin Scott Thomas and the voice of TV legend Paul Whitehouse.

It is already available to watch online here, and will receive its official TV debut during Tuesday night’s editions of Coronation Street on ITV1 and the Great British Bake Off on Channel 4.