Monday, October 28

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

The Rolling Stones seem to have teased a brand new album – by putting 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 latest 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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Pic: by way of Reuters

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 fashioned. It additionally features a hyperlink to an internet site which incorporates privateness phrases underneath 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 probably their first album of authentic music in nearly 20 years – the final was A Bigger Bang in 2005.

It would even be their first with out drummer Charlie Watts, who died in 2021.

‘Don’t get indignant, get it fastened’

“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 about to open early in September.

The Rolling Stones marked their sixtieth anniversary with a European tour in 2022, overlaying 10 international locations together with the UK.

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