The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds: Might this be the band’s first album of recent songs in nearly 20 years?

Aug 23, 2023 at 1:37 PM
The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds: Might this be the band’s first album of recent songs in nearly 20 years?

The Rolling Stones seem to have teased a brand new album – by inserting an advert in an area newspaper.

Fans are satisfied an innocuous-looking promotion for a brand new glass restore retailer, featured within the Hackney Gazette, is definitely a touch of recent work from the rock legends.

Representatives for The Rolling Stones – now that includes the core trio of Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards – are remaining tight-lipped, however the clues are there.

This ad for Hackney Diamonds was placed in the Hackney Gazette. Pic: via Reuters
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The advert for “Hackney Diamonds” options lyrics from the band’s best-known hits and says the shop was established in 1962, the yr they shaped. It additionally features a hyperlink to an internet site which incorporates privateness phrases beneath the group’s music label Universal.

If that is certainly a brand new Rolling Stones album, it could be the primary since blues covers file Blue & Lonesome in 2016 and doubtlessly their first album of unique music in nearly 20 years – the final was A Bigger Bang in 2005.

It would even be their first without drummer Charlie Watts, who died in 2021.

‘Don’t get indignant, get it mounted’

“Our friendly team promises you Satisfaction. When you say Gimme Shelter we’ll fix your Shattered windows,” says the advert, which featured within the newspaper’s 17 August version.

Call the telephone quantity on the advert and it takes you thru to a recorded message.

“Welcome to Hackney Diamonds, specialists in glass repair,” is the greeting from a male voice with a Cockney accent. “Don’t get angry, get it fixed.”

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The “store” is ready to open early in September.

The Rolling Stones marked their sixtieth anniversary with a European tour in 2022, masking 10 nations together with the UK.