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First rumors that the legendary British band rolling stones fanned themselves – now it’s out: the musicians around frontman Mick Jagger (80) are releasing a new album. About this “new album, the new music and a new era” Do you want to talk to US talk show host Jimmy Fallon this Wednesday, like the stones announced on their Instagram account on Monday evening. The 31st studio album is called accordingly “Hackney Diamonds”.
According to the British news agency PA Press, the interview with Fallon will take place in London’s Hackney district. It is supposed to be global on the Youtube channel of the rolling stones streamed, as the band’s Instagram account goes on to say. The last studio album “Blue & Lonesome” had the stones Released in 2016.
The band had kept making vague hints about a new album. In August, for example, an advertisement for the fictitious glass repair company appeared “Hackney Diamonds” in the local London newspaper “Hackney Gazette”which observers interpreted as a kind of advance notice. “Hackney Diamonds” was a local slang term for broken glass on the ground after a robbery, the BBC wrote in this context.
In addition, guitarist Keith Richards said in spring 2022 to the German Press Agency about drummer Steve Jordan, who took over for the late Charlie Watts: “Working with Steve Jordan somehow brought a new energy and zest for life.” You want to see now “what we can still do with the new line-up. There is a lot in the works.” Recently it was also reported that ex-bassist Bill Wyman and ex-Beatle Paul McCartney with the stones should have been in the studio.
Source: Nachrichten
