2023-09-05 19:32:00
In a strange advertising insert published at the end of August on page 3 of the Hackney Gazette, local newspaper of this outlying district of London, a window repair company, “Hackney Diamonds”, announces the opening of a new shop in September 2023… “Our friendly team promises you ‘satisfaction’. When you say ” give me shelter “(give me shelter), we’ll fix your windows” shattered “(broken)”. This cryptic message quotes three famous songs, the logo of a language appears embedded in the iconography, a link refers to a site of the company, whose rights are attributed to the Polydor record company, the Stones’ label. By clicking for a long time we can hear the beginnings of a song, “Angry”.
The year of creation of the firm “Hackney Diamonds” dates back to 1962… like that of the formation of the group originally composed of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts. The font used recalls that of the disc Some Girls, released in 1978. These signs have deceived neither the fan nor the journalists across the Channel who were moved by a possible return of the Rolling Stones. Confirmed. READ ALSO Rolling Stones are about to unveil a new album! Miracle.
This is the first album with unreleased tracks since “A Bigger Bang” in 2005, “Blue & Lonesome” containing only covers. But the Stones are like royalty: you have to see them to believe them. A press conference will give tomorrow Wednesday September 6 the contours of the creation of this album, the first without the charming drummer Charlie Watts, who died on August 24, 2021. Place kept confidential. Event marketing requires.
A show-style press conference
Some information leaks nicely, shelled out sparingly. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, the last original members or almost, the little young Ron Wood, 76, who joined the Stones in 1975, will be present. And it is the comedian and American talk show host Jimmy Fallon, former “Saturday Night Live”, who will host the mysterious meeting. He and Jagger have long been fond of each other, with the rocker having starred in Fallon sketches.
Journalists in England and around the world will receive the information only a few hours before the start of the festivities, livestreamed, since we are no longer in 1963. Nor in New York in 1975, when Mick and others jumped into the back of a truck driving on 5th Avenue to interpret hits there and thus announce their next tour. The timing will probably be wiser. And more fluctuating, since the absence of Charlie Watts, the elegant tempo maker, eternal fan of jazz who somewhat despised this binary world of rock, will certainly be mentioned. He was replaced by Steve Jordan, drummer less light, less swing, old accomplice of Richards.
READ ALSORolling Stones: good news from the ghosts The announced album should be released in October. We barely know the titles of the 12 titles: “Angry”, “Bite My Head Off”, “Depending On You”, “Dreamy Skies”, “Driving Me Too Hard”, “Get Close”, “Live by the Sword”, “Mess It Up”, “Morning Joe Cues”, “Sweet Sounds of Heaven”, “Tell Me Straight”, “Whole Wide World”. It is rumored that the fingers of Bill Wyman, 86, the bassist who left the band in 1990, would make their comeback on the strings for a title.
no nostalgia
All songs are signed, as usual, Jagger-Richards. However, three are co-signed with the thirty-something American Andrew Watt, producer-singer who has already cracked down on Justin Bieber, Miley Cirus, Pearl Jam or Iggy Pop recently. It is therefore him accompanied by Don Was who produce this 24th studio album of the Rolling Stones.
Jagger, enemy of the past, killer of nostalgia, unable to write his memoirs because he refuses the exercise of memory, loves nothing more than adapting to the contemporary era and sticking to the sounds of the moment. He always pulled the band out of the early blues lands, often for better and sometimes for worse. Is Andrew Watt from the seed of the fabulous Jimmy Miller, the magician behind Beggars Banquet et Let It Bleedor that of Don Was, with flatter arrangements, which has guided the Stones in the studio for the past twenty-five years?
READ ALSOTaylor Swift and the Rolling Stones Highest-Paid Singers of 2015The dashing Mick Jagger celebrated his 80th birthday this summer, celebrated not by donning slippers offered by his four great-grandchildren, but by dancing in a nightclub in London with Leonardo DiCaprio, his ballerina companion Melanie Hamrick, or even his ex Jerry Hall and a few of his offspring – Jagger has eight whose ages range from 52 to 7. The creative peak of an artist is rarely located in such distant decades, but there is hope.
Mick and Keith at the helm
This album was recorded and mixed between New York, Los Angeles and Nassau in the Bahamas. Why did you choose “Hackney Diamonds” as the title? Neither he nor Keith Richards are from Hackney, that formerly infamous corner of London’s East End. Both grew up in Dartford, a charmless town in Kent. Why diamonds? By reference to the one embedded in Mick Jagger’s tooth for almost 40 years? How to evaluate the current degree of complicity between Mick and Keith? These two have known each other for… 75 years, but have not lived in the same latitudes for almost as many years.
Mick Jagger roams between Paris, London, Touraine where he owns the Château de la Fourchette, he lived in confinement there, and Mosquito Island in winter. Keith Richards lives in Connecticut, he regularly flies away with his family to the Turks and Caicos Islands in his villa at the edge of the turquoise water. Last I heard, he still smokes.
Their bond, ultimately, remains the love of music, acting, public performance. It will be exceptional, no doubt, to see them together again, discuss their compositions, their desires, treat with an aristocratic haughtiness the journalistic plebs, they generally offer a T-shirt to whoever dares to ask if he is about their last record, their last tour, their last word… The Stones sang in 1964 this cover of Irma Thomas, “Time Is On My Side”. Who to contradict them?
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