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THE ROLLING STONES AND LADY GAGA DUET AT THE HACKNEY DIAMONDS LAUNCH PARTY

Peter Stewart

October 31, 2023


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Unless you’ve been gathering moss living under a rock, you’ll know that the
Rolling Stones have a new album out. You would also have heard that it is 18
years since A Bigger Bang, the Stones last album of original music, and that the
new album, Hackney Diamonds is the Stones’ best album in 40 years. When A Bigger
Bang (2005) came out I contacted my friend Hilton, the most committed Rolling
Stones fan I know, to ask if he’d listened to the album. He said he had, but he
found it sad and stale.

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When Blue & Lonesome (2016) came out, it received decent reviews. It was an
album of blues covers. I listened to it a couple of times, then filed it away. I
wasn’t taken by Jagger’s singing. I found it contrived. This time is different
and the Stones know it. They have a dynamic, engrossing, and powerful album on
their hands. An album that taps into the essence of the Stones but also sounds
contemporary. This is an LP they can get behind and promote. Our first video is
from the NYC launch party:






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In an interview with Sky News, Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood said that
the collaboration with Lady Gaga was a result of Lady Gaga recording in the same
studio complex. Gaga happened to have sung with the Stones once before. On the
Stones 50 and Counting tour, Lady Gaga sang Gimme Shelter with the band on 14
December 2012. On that tours’ 5 shows, different female singers joined Jagger on
the song (Mary J. Blige and Florence Welch also had turns).



Many reviewers have compared Lady Gaga’s singing on Sweet Sound of Heaven to
Merry Clayton’s stunning background vocals on Gimme Shelter. That’s a big
compliment. Lady Gaga has written on Instagram: “I sang in a way I never really
sang before except for with Mick.” Some reviewers have called the climax of the
gospel-and-soul-tinged song a duel between Gaga and Jagger. Billboard writes
that the song builds to a pair of “growly soul shout-off” peaks. Here is the
lead single from Hackney Diamonds:









That is Angry, which opens with a riff reminiscent of Start Me Up (1981). Angry
peaked at #34 in the UK and #32 on the US Billboard Hot Rock & Alternative Songs
charts. Sweet Sounds of Heaven reached #2 on the UK singles chart and #29 on US
Billboard Digital Song Sales chart. Meanwhile Hackney Diamonds, the parent
album, has soared up the charts around the world. In the UK, Hackney Diamonds
debuted at #1 on the Albums Chart published on Friday, 27 October 2023. The
album sold more than the rest of the top 5 combined. This makes The Rolling
Stones the first band to have first-release chart-topping albums in the UK in
six different decades.



As regards the reviews of the album, Metacritic gives Hackney Diamonds a
weighted average score of 78 out of 100 from 22 reviews. That means the reviews
have been mostly positive. A conspicuous outlier is the Pitchfork review, which
is scathing. Grayson Haver Currin, the Pitchfork critic, does warm to the Keith
Richards sung Tell Me Straight. He writes, “With its dim flickers of dissonance
and bedraggled tone, it is a welcome reprieve from Hackney Diamonds’ exhausting
and ageless quest for perfection.” He also has time for Sweet Sound of Heaven,
wherein “Jagger contemplates nationalism, poverty, and his own mortality, trying
to resist the sirens’ call for just a bit more hard living”. He concludes his
observation on the song saying “Jagger spends the first 30 minutes of Hackney
Diamonds cosplaying a younger version of himself, all cocksure and strutting and
fake. He is only convincing when he sings of what is real and nearer every day.”



Earlier in his review, Currin quips: “The Stones helped define rock stardom’s
swaggering ethos. They also turned it forever into a big fucking business.” For
him, it is the latter aspect of the Rolling Stones legacy that dominates Hackney
Diamonds and the myriad of formats in which it has been released. It is, he
says, “Available in so many vinyl, CD, and Blu-Ray variants it should give
Taylor Swift new ideas”. His final summation of the album: “Just like the image
of its title, Hackney Diamonds isn’t at all full of rare gems; it is, instead,
the mess made in the attempt to get easy money from someone else.”



I see Currin’s point. The Rolling Stones have become an industry and their
choice of producer (Andrew Watt) points to a venerable band wanting a
contemporary commercial sound make-over. Nonetheless, Hackney Diamonds is the
first Rolling Stones album in decades that I’ve played more than a couple of
times and still want to hear again. I’m sure the same applies to my friend
Hilton. If you would like to see more from Rolling Stones, you can subscribe to
their YouTube channel or follow them on Facebook. You can also visit their
official website for more information.



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