The Rolling Stones’ new album Hackney Diamonds will feature collaborations with Lady Gaga, Sydney Sweeney
Jimmy Fallon helped The Rolling Stones introduce their new album, which features Lady Gaga and a music video appearance from Sydney Sweeney
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Clearly, there’s no rest for the wicked: senior rockers The Rolling Stones are releasing a new album. Hackney Diamonds will be the band’s first studio album of original music since 2005 (A Bigger Bang), and the first since the death of drummer Charlie Watts in 2021. To commemorate the momentous occasion, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood sat down in—where else—Hackney with Jimmy Fallon to share details about the new LP.
The band appeared onstage with Fallon at the Hackney Empire Theater in front of a live audience. Wood explained that the group hit the studio just before Christmas 2022, recording 23 tracks. Hackney Diamonds, which will be released on October 20, ultimately features 12 of those tracks. Steve Jordan, Charlie Watts’ own chosen replacement, plays on most of those songs. However, two of them were recorded in 2019 with Watts on the drums, and one even features longtime former bassist Bill Wyman.
There was another featured artist revealed during the livestream: Lady Gaga duets on the track “Sweet Sound Of Heaven.” (Judging by Fallon’s surprised reaction, Wood perhaps wasn’t yet supposed to dish that info.) The full tracklist is as follows:
1. Angry
2. Get Close
3. Depending On You
4. Bite My Head Off
5. Whole Wide World
6. Dreamy Skies
7. Mess It Up
8. Live By The Sword
9. Driving Me Too Hard
10. Tell Me Straight
11. Sweet Sound Of Heaven (ft. Lady Gaga)
12. Rolling Stone Blues
The livestream concluded with the premiere of the music video for the first single “Angry,” which features Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney. (Sweeney, in attendance, called the “Angry” video the “biggest thing” she’d ever done.) The song is a classic Stones sound, and the video depicts Sweeney rocking out in a red convertible as she’s serenaded by billboards of the Stones in their many eras over the years.
Hackney Diamonds has already been highly anticipated as the band teased its new era—the Stones’ famous lips logo was projected near several famous monuments around the world, signaling the big announcement. The band also placed an ad in the Hackney Gazette for a fake glass repair business that redirected to their website. Many fans were brought up short by an error message; others managed to get through to a snippet of “Angry.”
Though Hackney Diamonds is the first original Stones release in nearly two decades, the band certainly hasn’t been sitting on their hands. Last year, they embarked on the Sixty Tour to commemorate the group’s 60th anniversary; the year before that, they concluded the years-long No Filter Tour which had been interrupted by the pandemic. Though frontman Jagger recently turned 80, the group shows no sign of slowing down any time soon.
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Lady Gaga is no Merry Clayton, I can tell you that.
Nor a Lisa Fischer:This……is just awful. Fucking hell, those dance moves would have even Peter Garrett embarrassed.
I couldn’t concentrate on the dance moves because I was distracted by Keith’s terrible playing. It sounds like a rookie guitar player’s first attempt to play “Gimme Shelter”…
??? Has she ever claimed to be? You can compliment one person w/o pooping on another.
see above.
ditto.
I’m excited for this album, and am probably joined by 3 other readers of this site.
I like the song and the video, shine on you crazy diamonds.
“Angry” sounds like a bad B-side or contractural obligation album filler. The fact that it kicks off the new album doesn’t bode well.
Yeah I hear it drop this morning on XM and was underwhelmed. It felt like a million other boring late-career mid-tempo rock songs.
It doesn’t bode well, but doesn’t mean the album is doomed either. I like A Bigger Bang quite a bit, and the lead single, Rough Justice, is one of my least favorite songs on the album.
The fact that it’s a follow-up to A Bigger Bang doesn’t bode well.
the general concept of “new rolling stones album and it’s past 1981″ doesn’t bode well
It’s no “One Hit (to the Body),” that’s for sure.
It sounds like what you’d end up with if you asked someone to make a record that sounds kind of like the Rolling Stones but they could only use a sampler-sequencer and an AI imitation of Mick Jagger.
I’m just going to stick with 60’s and 70’s Rolling Stones thanks.
You’re checking out now that they’ve reached their 80s?
They recorded it last Christmas.So this album is still 70’s Mick Jagger.
im strangely compelled to listen to Exile on Main Street this afternoon.
I loved the billboard part, but the girl in the car seemed to be transported from a cheesy hair metal video.That part could’ve worked, but it didn’t, at all.
So Sydney Sweeney can be the Tawny Kitaen of the 21st century?
I, for one, would welcome this.
Well, with Sydney we can skip the whole ‘going frame-by-frame thru a VHS for the one with nip’ business.
Well, it’s Sydney Sweeney, so it kinda did.
They are firmly entrenched in the “not gonna break any new ground, not gonna suck” phase of their careers, like AC/DC or ZZ Top.
that ship sailed with brian jones in 1969
I am long since through the looking glass from oh-whatever-boring-boomer-rock to you-know-what-good-for-them.
I’m looking forward to this if nothing else.I quite like their Living in a Ghost Town single from the early weeks of Covid. That was a solid single.
The song’s ok, but I hate whatever they did to Mick’s vocals, autotune or whatever. By contrast, he sounds so much better on his Slow Horses song— just letting Mick be Mick, warts and all.
All of you in these comments should fucking rope.Jesus Christ, imagine being into THIS fucking shit. KYS r*tards
This is the musical equivalent of harvesting adrenochrome..
Oldies band needs drummer, inexplicably hires Lady Gaga!
A appearance in a music video is not a collaboration.
The last album they put out was Blue and Lonesome, although it wasn’t original material. It is a great album of white men playing old blues tunes, kinda how the Stones started out.
This song was ok, hopefully the rest of the album will be better.
How are The Rolling Stones still alive?
Who would have predicted the Stones still pretty much sounding like the Stones 60 years on? Just beating out Golden Earring, who were about tying them for oldest rock band until splitting recently (and Barry Hay giving Jagger a run). We didn’t get rockets to Mars, flying cars…