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- Summary: The first full-length release of original songs from the Rolling Stones since 2005's A Bigger Bang features guest appearances by Elton John, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, and Bill Wyman.
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- Record Label: Geffen
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Oct 6, 2023The new Rolling Stones album is the best thing they have made since their Seventies glory days. Which, it might reasonably be argued, de facto makes it the best rock’n’ roll album of the past four decades at least.
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Oct 10, 2023It’s a 21st-century record for a 21st-century audience that, with an old-school 48-minute duration, only ever leaves the listener hungry for more.
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Oct 23, 2023The fact that Hackney Diamonds is this damn good further proves that even the bands who’ve given every bit of themselves to the music still have more left to give.
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Oct 10, 2023Hackney Diamonds isn’t just another new Stones album, but a vibrant and cohesive record — the first Stones album in ages you’ll want to crank more than once before filing away.
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Oct 25, 2023It’s by no means perfect, but that’s not what the Rolling Stones are about. These troubadour, raconteurs set the blueprint and this is them laminating it for good measure, refusing to ever let the moss grow fat.
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Oct 23, 2023At its heart, it's nothing more than the Rolling Stones knocking out some good Rolling Stones songs, which seems like a minor miracle after such a long wait.
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Oct 19, 2023They try and fail to reinvigorate themselves in the rock’n’roll fountain of youth they helped create, only to emerge with a dozen hackneyed duds.