LONDON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 06: Mick Jagger attends the Rolling Stones “Hackney Diamonds” Launch Event at Hackney Empire on September 06, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Jo Hale/Redferns)
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First there hasn’t been a new Rolling Stones album with their own material for eighteen years, and then this! If Mick Jagger has his way, it’s not over yet after the long player “Hackney Diamonds”, which will be released on October 20, 2023. Quite the opposite, as the legendary frontman revealed in an interview.
The band has already finished a large part of the material for another record, the 80-year-old told the New York Times. The key sentence in the interview: “I don’t think it’s the last Rolling Stones album. We’re almost three quarters of the way through the next one.”
Fast studio work
Why did it end up happening so quickly once the band was finally in the studio? Jagger explains it this way: “I said to Keith, ‘If we don’t have a deadline, we’re never going to finish this record.’ So I was like, ‘The deadline is Valentine’s Day 2023. And then we’ll go on tour with it. That’s what we’ve always had to do. You know, you have to finish ‘Exile on Main Street’ because you have a tour booked.”
In conversation, Richards calls the recording process a “blitzkrieg”: “We worked quickly, but that was the idea,” says the guitarist, who adds with a laugh: “I’m still recovering.”