The Rolling Stones announce release date for their new album and unveil lead single, ‘Angry’

LONDON — The Rolling Stones are back, and they’ve brought a few famous friends. “Hackney Diamonds,” the band’s first album of new songs in 18 years, features guest appearances from the likes of Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. But thanks to Charlie we have Steve Jordan, who was his recommendation if anything should happen to him.” “It would have been a lot harder without Charlie’s blessing,” he said. Inside the ornate former Edwardian musical hall where Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel once performed, Jagger, 80, Richards, 79 and Wood, 76 gave details of the Stones’ first studio album of new songs since “A Bigger Bang” in 2005. “We are quite pleased with it, we are not big headed about it, but we hope you all like it.” “Hackney Diamonds” is a slang term for shattered glass, and the band also teased fans with an ad in the local Hackney Gazette newspaper for a fictional glass repair business: “When you say gimme shelter, we’ll fix your shattered windows.” Jagger said the phrase evoked “when you get your windscreen broken on Saturday night in Hackney and all the bits go on the street.” Richards said the band hit upon the title after “flinging ideas around the table, and we went from ‘Hit and Run,’ ‘Smash and Grab’ — and somehow between that we came up with ‘Hackney Diamonds.’” It was fitting, he said, because the Stones are a London band — though none of the members hails from Hackney.