Rolling Stones tease new album with local newspaper advert

The Rolling Stones look to person revealed the rubric of their caller medium with an advert for a fictional solid repair concern successful a section newspaper.

The ad, which appeared successful the Hackney Gazette, referenced respective of the band's best-known songs.

"Our affable squad promises you satisfaction," it read. "When you accidental gimme structure we'll hole your shattered windows."

The set person yet to corroborate the beingness of their 31st workplace album.

However, the advert contained respective clues: A miniature mentation of the Stones' celebrated lips logo appeared arsenic the dot supra the missive i, and the solid repair concern was established successful 1962, the aforesaid twelvemonth the set was formed.

The company's name, Hackney Diamonds, is believed to beryllium the rubric of their caller medium - and uses the aforesaid font arsenic the band's 1978 medium Some Girls.

The operation is section slang for breached solid - specifically the shards near connected the crushed aft car and store windows are smashed during a robbery.

The paper advert besides features a telephone fig that customers tin telephone to get a quote.

If they do, they perceive a recorded connection that says: "Welcome to Hackney Diamonds, specialists successful solid repair: Don't get angry, get it fixed. Opening aboriginal September, Mare Street, E8. Register for a telephone astatine www.hackneydiamonds.com. Come connected then."

The website offers fans the accidental to articulation a mailing list, which is tally by the Stones' grounds label, Universal Music.

The advert was first spotted by Simon Harper, laminitis of Clash Magazine, who posted it to X / Twitter.

Hackney Diamonds is aged eastbound London slang operation for breached glass.

A caller Stones medium would beryllium their archetypal since 2016's Blue and Lonesome, which was a postulation of blues screen songs, and their archetypal grounds of archetypal worldly since A Bigger Bang successful 2005.

It would besides beryllium the band's archetypal merchandise since the death of drummer Charlie Watts successful August 2021 aged 80, aft suffering pharynx cancer.

The prima is known to person recorded caller drum tracks with the set earlier his death.

"Let maine enactment it this way," Guitarist Keith Richards precocious told the Los Angeles Times, "you haven't heard the past of Charlie Watts."

He added that sessions for the medium had taken longer than planned due to the fact that of the Covid-19 pandemic.

"If everything hadn't gotten closed down, we might've finished the damn thing," helium said.

Singer Mick Jagger added: "We person a batch of tracks done, truthful erstwhile the tour's finished we'll measure wherever we are with that and continue."

Separately, it has been reported that bassist Bill Wyman was invited backmost to the set aft 3 decades to grounds a tribute opus for Watts.

In June, an unnamed root told The Sun newspaper: "Bill hasn't seen the set unneurotic for years, but ever loved Charlie. This record's truly a tribute to Charlie, truthful helium couldn't accidental no."

It has besides been rumoured that Paul McCartney and Elton John volition look connected the album, which is being produced by Grammy victor Andrew Watt.

Rolling Stones podcast Hang Fire said an announcement astir the medium was owed successful September, with the merchandise coming successful October.