“No one leaves this band, unless it’s in a wooden coffin”…The omen of Keith Richards (79 years old) has been corroborated this Wednesday by Mick Jagger (80) and Ronnie Wood (76), the last survivors of the Rolling Stones, at the presentation of “Hackney Diamonds”their first album with new songs since 2005.
“Why has it taken us 18 years to release an album? Well, because we are very lazy“Jagger, 80, said with a laugh.
The death of drummer Chalie Watts in 2021 served as an incentive for the eternal relaunch of the band, which has rescued its legendary founding bassist, Bill Wyman (86), for the occasion, and which has had the special collaboration of Paul McCartney (81), burying old quarrels with the Beatles.
“Everything is different since Charlie left, he will always be the fourth”Mick Jagger has acknowledged. “He came to record two songs with us in 2019. We miss him terribly.”
The stage chosen for the presentation of the album that will go on sale on October 20 has been the Hackney Empire candy bar, surrounded from early in the morning by hundreds of fans who came to pay homage to their “satanic majesties”, almost a year after the death of Elizabeth II at the age of 96.