By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Jeannie Park

Satisfaction! After being separated since 1986, the Rolling Stones are readying a late-summer album. Even better, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger have written a dozen new songs for it. "We just sat down and bashed them out," says Richards. The group's drifting apart, he says, "wasn't particularly pleasant, but it was always inevitable that the Stones would get together again." Jagger calls the new material "a mixed bag," and Richards is equally enigmatic. "It's Stones, baby," he explains. "Stones is the Stones. It's just music to me."