The new Rolling Stones album “Hackney Diamonds” will be released on October 20, 2023. For this, Mick Jagger was inspired by a work from his own band’s past, as he explains in an interview with “The Wall Street Journal”.
Specifically, this is “Some Girls” from 1978. Jagger didn’t want to revive the sound of the long player – but rather the relatively fast, productive way of working at that time. “Not to rush into anything,” says Jagger. “But you don’t do Take 117 either. You don’t get bogged down in discussions about whether this song is good or whether it’s worth it.”
Fast, enthusiastic way of working
Some of the pieces, including “Mess It Up,” were written a few years ago. “The rest was done very quickly,” said Jagger. They wanted to give the recordings urgency, he says. “Even if it’s a nice song, if it’s not done with enthusiasm, it doesn’t really affect you, does it?” says the frontman.
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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.”