NEW YORK (AP) — Sometimes, you can always get what you want: On Tuesday, The Rolling Stones confirmed that they will release a new album, titled “Foreign Tongues,” this summer.
They also released a new single, titled “In The Stars.”
To celebrate, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood attended an album announcement event inside the converted Williamsburgh Savings Bank in Brooklyn. Conan O’Brien hosted the event, with celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and Lindsey Vonn in the audience. “I think this is the one, after years of toiling in obscurity,” he joked, “This is their time.”
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The Stones’ last album was 2023’s “Hackney Diamonds.” It was their first album of original material in 18 years — since 2005’s “A Bigger Bang.” It was also their first full-length release since the death of drummer Charlie Watts in 2021. He appeared posthumously on two of that album’s 12 tracks.
“Foreign Tongues,” recorded over the course of a month in London, will be released July 10.
“Foreign Tongues,” it will also include a special appearance from Watts from one of his final recording sessions before his death, as well as contributions from Steve Winwood, Paul McCartney, the Cure’s Robert Smith and the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith.
“I think Paul (McCartney) really wanted to jump in there,” Jagger said. “There was no intimidation. He wanted to play with the band.”
The Stones also worked closely with Oscar-winning pop producer Andrew Watt (known for his work with Post Malone and Justin Bieber, and the Stones’ “Hackney Diamonds,” to name a few).
When something isn’t working in studio, the band said Watt kicks them in to gear. The room erupted into cheers for him and O’Brien compared the “immediacy” of the new album to “Exile on Main Street.”
A taste of ‘Foreign Tongues’
Speculation surrounding a new Stones album has been going around for weeks. First, posters appeared around London with the band name “The Cockroaches,” a pseudonym the Stones’ have used in the past, along with a QR code. The code led to ‘thecockroaches.com’ and a sign-up page. Once a user had signed up, they received a confirmation message from Universal Music — the Stones’ label. Representatives did not provide The Associated Press with comment or confirmation at the time.
Eventually it led to a white label, vinyl-only release of the track “Rough and Twisted” using The Cockroaches name — the first true tease of “Foreign Tongues” decipherable only by their most dedicated fans.
Then, in the week leading up to their announcement, billboards with the band’s iconic mouth and tongue logo began appearing in major cities around the world with the words “Foreign Tongues” in various languages: “Fremmede Sprog,” “Vreemde Tongen,” “Dayuhang Dila,” “외국어,” and “Langues Étrangères” among them. Around the same time, the Rolling Stones’ official website was updated to feature video clips stylized to look like surveillance footage of them in the studio.
On Sunday, the band shared a slide puzzle graphic fans believed to be the album artwork, depicting a cartoonish collage of the members’ faces. (They were correct; it was the official album cover.) There was also a short video clip, just 10-seconds long, that appeared to tease a new song.
The Stones’ ‘Tonight Show’ takeover
“The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” will host the surviving members of the Stones across three nights this month, NBC announced Tuesday.
Jagger will appear on Wednesday’s show and Fallon will host Richards on Thursday. Wood will appear on May 13.
No additional details on whether the band will perform together on the show were immediately released.
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