2023-09-07 11:51:21
The return of the Rolling Stones began with a cryptic announcement in the press and has culminated in a big way, with an event presented by television star Jimmy Fallon at the classic London theater (opened in 1901) Hackney Empire, in the Hackney neighborhood. , to which the title of the new album refers, Hackney Diamonds, which will go on sale on October 20.
From the attack of the grays to the red carpet: the Rolling Stones return to Spain
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Those “diamonds” in the title refer to the pieces of glass that remain on the ground after breaking a glass to commit a robbery. Before arriving at that title, with such a London sound, they considered others from the same semantic universe of crime, such as “hit and run” (hit and run) or “smash and grab” (break and take what you can, also in reference to a robbery breaking a shop window), as revealed at the event.
This introductory interview, lasting half an hour, has been broadcast live on the group’s official YouTube channel, reaching almost two million views. The first single has been released there, Angry, which is accompanied by a video clip starring Sydney Sweeney, one of the actresses of Euphoria, who enjoys the song in a convertible car that circulates along a large avenue, on the sides of which billboards appear with different moments of the group’s career.
It is a great event because Hackney Diamonds, Their 26th album (according to the United States count, 24th in the United Kingdom), contains 12 new songs, something that has not happened in 18 years. The previous studio album was A Bigger Bang, in 2005. “Why did it take us 18 years to release an album? Well, because we are very lazy,” said Mick Jagger. The vocalist also announced that not all the songs sounded “angry” (in reference to Angry) but rather it is a rather “eclectic” album, with room for “love songs”, “ballads” or country songs.
In August, the group mysteriously anticipated the album’s arrival with a fictitious advertisement in the Hackney Gazette, which advertised a fictitious glass repair business. In the writing of the text, clues were pointed out about the true intentions of this advertising insertion, since the “team” of that company promised “satisfaction”, in reference to one of the most famous songs by the group of Mick Jagger, Keith Richard and Ronnie Wood (drummer Charlie Watts passed away two years ago). The text also warned: “When you say gimme shelter we’ll fix your shattered windows” (When you say give me shelter, we’ll fix your broken windows), which alludes to the song Gimme Shelter, which is one of Richards’ two favorites (along with Jumping Jack Flash) as you dared to choose in the presentation.
During the show, There was a memory for Watts: “Everything is different since Charlie left. “Of course we miss him, he’s number four!” said Keith Richards, who noted that new drummer Steve Jordan received Watts’ “blessing” before he died. However, Watts participated in two songs, recorded in 2019, of the 12 on the album. And Jordan was not present on stage.
Although it has taken almost two decades to release an album, the recording process did not take that long. It was “very fast,” according to Ronnie Woods. They entered the recording studio in December, finished in January, and by February they had finished producing it.
Rolling Stones is one of the longest-lived groups in the history of rock’n’roll. They were formed in London in 1962. To give you an idea, when the journalist who was interviewing them was born, in 1974, they had already released 15 albums, including Beggars Banquet y Sticky Fingers). Asked about this extraordinary resistance, Jagger (80 years old) announced that the secret of staying with Richards (79 years old) for so long is “not talking to each other too much.”
The Stones’ last tour Sixty, passed through Spain, with a massive concert at the Metropolitan Stadium in Madrid, on June 1, 2022, in which the public saw what the Rolling post Charlie Watts are like, in which the group “keeps rolling.”
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