Rolling Stones kick off album launch in New York with visitor Lady Gaga

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The Rolling Stones held a non-public launch occasion for his or her first new album in 18 years at a membership on Manhattan’s West Side late on Thursday.

The Stones, of their seventh decade as a rock ‘n roll band, tore by a half-dozen songs for a crowd of lots of on the Racket NYC membership in assist of the album Hackney Diamonds, which has garnered the band a few of its finest evaluations in many years.

Lead singer Mick Jagger, 80, joked that doing one other New York launch was a part of the motivation for getting again into the studio for the report, whose title is a reference to British slang for damaged glass.

“We were missing the launches so much we had to go back and make another album,” he advised the energised crowd in the course of a set that alternated new numbers and well-known tracks together with Jumpin’ Jack Flash and Tumblin’ Dice.

The band has kicked off earlier albums in New York with nice fanfare, as soon as rolling down Fifth Avenue on a flatbed truck and on one other event using on a caboose into Grand Central Terminal.

The Stones closed with an look by Lady Gaga for Sweet Sounds of Heaven, a sluggish, blues-infused quantity off the brand new album that remembers the band’s 70s traditional Moonlight Mile. Gaga and Jagger mimicked one another’s dance films as they alternated vocals, Gaga in a shimmering red-and-black one-sleeved jumpsuit, Jagger carrying a typically tight black shirt.

Hackney Diamonds is the band’s first studio album of authentic materials since 2005’s A Bigger Bang and the primary recording since longtime drummer Charlie Watts died in 2021. The surviving core consists of Jagger and guitarists Keith Richards, 79, and Ron Wood, 76.

The latter has been a member of the band for almost 50 years regardless of becoming a member of in 1975, 13 years after the Stones had been fashioned.

Besides Gaga, the brand new album options friends Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney and Elton John, and a return look by longtime bassist Bill Wyman, who left the band within the Nineteen Nineties, for the tune Live by the Sword, which additionally options drumming by Watts earlier than he died.

The album closes with the tune Rolling Stone Blues, a Muddy Waters tune that was the origin of the band’s title.