The Rolling Stones have definitely returned. After fueling fan speculation with a clever crypto campaign, the group ended the suspense by announcing the upcoming album release on social media on Friday. hackney diamonds.
“A new era of the Stones, worldwide, September 6,” indicates a tweet from the group, published this Friday, September 1.
The post also includes a link to hackneydiamonds.com, with a countdown clock showing 4 days and 10pm.
On August 24, a strange advertisement published in the local British newspaper Hackney Gazette caught the attention of fans of the rolling rockswho saw it as a hidden message to announce the release of a new album.
This ad, filled with Stones titles (Satisfaction, Gimme Shelter and Shattered) promoted the services of “Hackney Diamonds, Window Repair Specialists”, due to open in September.
The Stones were careful to spread other “clues”, such as their broken glass logo, projected onto monuments and walls around the world.
Therefore, the fans confirmed this Friday that their intuition was correct. And now rejoice in this surprise.
Ronnie Wood had indicated at the end of 2022 in an interview with Sun that a new album was being prepared, the first without drummer Charlie Watts, who died in 2021. “Charlie is present on certain songs, as well as drummer Steve Jordan,” he specified then. HE Anglo-Saxon media We also evoke the presence of Paul McCartney, and perhaps even Ringo Starr, on this record.
hackney diamonds will be the band’s first original album since 2005, and a big bang. His last album blue and lonely, released in 2016, was a covers album. They had signed two unpublished songs on a compilation in 2012. The Stones presented themselves in 2020. Living in a ghost townhis first original song since 2012, inspired by the pandemic.
They also toured Europe in 2022, with an anniversary tour titled Sixty.
Source: BFM TV
