This is how the Rolling Stones feel about working with Andrew Watt

With “Hackney Diamonds”, the first Rolling Stones album in 18 years will be released on October 20th – the band also has producer Andrew Watt to thank for this, who provided significant support to Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards during the recordings.

The 32-year-old has previously worked with Post Malone, Miley Cyrus, Iggy Pop and Ozzy Osbourne, but one way he showed his love for the Stones was by wearing a different band T-shirt to work every day. However, the Stones revealed in an interview that he did not give in to his great heroes.

That’s what working with Andrew Watt was like

“We had a referee. “We’ve been missing that since the days with Jimmy Miller,” said Ronnie Wood in an interview with “BBC” explains, referring to the producer of “Sticky Fingers” and “Exile On Main Street”. “We needed someone to discipline us and say: ‘Come on now, you’re not going to do this tomorrow, you’re going to do it today’.” However, Keith Richards sees it a little differently and countered in the interview with the words: “I can understand that Ronnie “It looks like that, but the real referees are Mick and me,” said the musician. “Andrew just had the right amount of energy and the right know-how to pull it off.”

There’s a lot of truth in that too: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards made the Rolling Stones what they are today. And their personalities also seem to complement each other perfectly. While Jagger led the band to success as the strategic part, Richards always brought his good instincts and the necessary spontaneity to the unique songwriting relationship. For example, the riff for “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” came to him in his sleep.

Rolling Stones: “Hackney Diamonds” is another milestone for the band

The entire process from the first recordings to the completion of the new album took two months. However, the song ideas had been with the band for a long time. “Mick can really make something bad out of a song that doesn’t interest him. And that’s perhaps one of the reasons why it’s taken 18 years, because Mick’s bursts of enthusiasm come and go,” says Richards. The Rolling Stones used London slang for the album title. “Hackney Diamonds” is the name given to the shards of glass that lie scattered on the street after a robbery.