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Hackney Diamonds
A computer graphic of a diamond heart being split with a dagger, the band name and title are located at the top in shards of glass
Cover to the standard edition of the album: the limited edition vinyl LP has a mass of eyeballs and tongues. Additional covers are made for every Major League Baseball team, featuring the tongue and lips logo in each team's colors.[1]
Studio album by
the Rolling Stones
Released20 October 2023 (2023-10-20)
RecordedFebruary 2019, 2020, December 2022 – January 2023
Studio
Length48:23
LabelPolydor
Producer
The Rolling Stones chronology
Grrr Live!
(2022) 		Hackney Diamonds
(2023)
Singles from Hackney Diamonds
  1. "Angry"
    Released: 6 September 2023[4]
  2. "Sweet Sounds of Heaven"
    Released: 28 September 2023[5]

Hackney Diamonds is the upcoming 24th British and 26th American studio album by British rock band the Rolling Stones, set for release on 20 October 2023[6] on Polydor. The album features guest stars Elton John, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, and Bill Wyman. It is the first studio album of original material by the band since A Bigger Bang (2005) and the band's first following the death of drummer Charlie Watts in 2021, though he contributed to select tracks before his death.[7]

Recording, promotion, and release

The Rolling Stones last released a studio album in 2016 with the blues covers album Blue & Lonesome, which began with new material recorded with Don Was but stalled.[8] The band's last album of original material was A Bigger Bang in 2005, but they continued to release occasional tracks, such as "Doom and Gloom" and "One More Shot" for the compilation GRRR! in 2012 and the 2020 single "Living in a Ghost Town". The group again recorded sessions for a new album starting in 2020, but these were interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.[9] Studio work in 2021 yielded several completed songs[10] and further recordings in late 2022 and early 2023 with producer Andrew Watt included Paul McCartney playing bass guitar on new Stones music.[11] In June 2023, former bassist Bill Wyman announced that he had recorded with the band for the first time in 30 years.[12][9] Additional recordings with Elton John are expected to be on the release.[6] These recordings include 2019 sessions that have the last studio work by Charlie Watts and the band's first studio work with drummer Steve Jordan.[7] Final recording for the album began in December 2022, with 23 total tracks finished in January 2023 and mixing done the following month.[13] At the end, the band had enough material for a follow-up album, which vocalist Mick Jagger estimated was 75% done by the time that Hackney Diamonds was released.[14]

The album's name is London slang for the shattered glass left behind after burglars have smashed a window to break in, Hackney being an inner-city area of London associated with a high crime rate.[15]

On 17 August 2023, an advertisement appeared in the Hackney Gazette teasing the album, referencing several Rolling Stones song titles and displaying their tongue logo.[6] On 22 August, social media profiles posted new artwork by Paulina Almira and Universal Music Group debuted a website to promote the release, on which a countdown appeared and solicited questions for the band.[16][17][18][19] The group posted links to this site on their social media accounts on 29 August and showed photos of their lip logo projected on various monuments around the world.[20] These projections continued to 2 September,[21] when the band previewed a short snippet of "Angry" on the website dontgetangrywithme.com, which experienced instability and frequent errors that some interpreted as being intentional.[22]

On 4 September, the album was officially announced, as were the plans for a livestream with television host Jimmy Fallon[23] where more information would be revealed and the lead single would be premiered. On 6 September, the livestream was broadcast on the Rolling Stones' official YouTube channel while being filmed at the Hackney Empire Theatre in London. Fallon interviewed the band, who revealed the album's track list and release date, as well as alluding to various guest musicians, and answered questions sent in from fans. The music video for "Angry" premiered after the interview concluded, which features actress Sydney Sweeney being driven through Los Angeles in a red convertible, with the band members singing to her from large billboards along the way.[24]

"Sweet Sounds of Heaven" was teased by the band via an Instagram post on 25 September, 2023, which played a short snippet of the track and revealed its release date.[25]

Shortly after the newspaper advertisement implying this album release, 12 songs were registered to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers under the names of Jagger–Richards, with three tracks co-written by Andrew Watt.[26][20] The final track listing was released on 6 September and included "Rolling Stone Blues", a Muddy Waters song that gave their band their name; they had never covered it previously on a release.[27]

The recording process was captured by a documentary crew.[28]

Critical reception

Prior to its announcement, Will Hodgkinson, chief rock and pop critic for The Times, received early access to the entirety of the album. Hodgkinson noted that Hackney Diamonds "sound[s] like a summation of all the things that make the Stones great" and is "unquestionably the Stones' best [album] since" Some Girls (1978).[27]

Track listing

All songs written by Jagger–Richards, except where noted.

  1. "Angry" (Jagger–Richards, Andrew Watt) – 3:46
  2. "Get Close" (Jagger–Richards, Watt) – 4:10
  3. "Depending On You" (Jagger–Richards, Watt) – 4:03
  4. "Bite My Head Off" – 3:31
  5. "Whole Wide World" – 3:58
  6. "Dreamy Skies" – 4:38
  7. "Mess It Up" – 4:03
  8. "Live by the Sword" – 3:59
  9. "Driving Me Too Hard" – 3:16
  10. "Tell Me Straight" – 2:56
  11. "Sweet Sounds of Heaven" – 7:22
  12. "Rolling Stone Blues" (Muddy Waters) – 2:41

Personnel

The Rolling Stones

  • Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, guitar, percussion, harmonica on "Rolling Stone Blues"
  • Keith Richards – guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals; lead vocals on "Tell Me Straight"[4]
  • Charlie Watts – drums on "Mess It Up" and "Live by the Sword"[29][27]
  • Ronnie Wood – guitar, backing vocals

Additional personnel

See also

References

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