LONDON: The Rolling Stones will release their first album of new music in 18 years next month, lead singer Mick Jagger announced on Wednesday.
“We’re here to present our new single, which is called Angry, and the video,” he told a launch event at Hackney Empire in east London.
Angry is the first single from the album, called Hackney Diamonds, which will be released on Oct 20.
The album is also the first since the death of drummer Charlie Watts and the first containing original material since A Bigger Bang in 2005.
“Hackney diamonds” is English slang for the shards of glass left scattered on the ground after smash-and-grab robberies, and refers to the historically working-class east London neighbourhood.
“It’s like when you get your windscreen broken on a Saturday night in Hackney,” Jagger joked.
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