Those exultant sounds you hear on “Sweet Sounds of Heaven,” the penultimate track on the Rolling Stones’ terrific new album “Hackney Diamonds,” are Mick Jagger and Lady Gaga trying to one-up each other vocally.
This image released by Universal Music shows cover art for “Hackney Diamonds” by The Rolling Stones. Near the end of the exultant “Sweet Sounds of Heaven,” the penultimate track on The Rolling Stones’ terrific new album“Oh yeah!” they sing, with escalating urgency.
This all feels like a rather major development for lifelong Stones fans. For so long, it seems, there’s been an unspoken contract between them and the band: Youand we will come. You’ll play the hits, maybe dust off a few surprises to keep it fresh. It’s enough, because, duh, you’re the Stones! Jagger will keep moving like, well, Jagger, technically age 80.The Rolling Stones announce release date for their new album and unveil lead single, ‘Angry’New music? That has not been part of the equation.
But now, on the track “Whole Wide World,” when Jagger sings, “And you think the party is over,” it feels like the whole album is one big answer: Um, nope! And maybe, just maybe, we have a hint of possibility of shaking up the arena set list. A key candidate would be the aforementioned, gospel-tinged “Sweet Sounds of Heaven” — Exhibit A of what’s fun about the album, starting with the fact that when you’re the Stones, you can invite anybody to your party and they’ll show. Like Gaga andwho joins the track on keyboards . But the song also testifies to how vigorous Jagger’s voice remains.doing piano duty on two tracks.
Is this the last new album? Likely not. But if it were, the final words would be “rolling stone,” via a poignantcover, reminding us of the blues albums Mick was carrying that fateful day he connected with Keith at a train station.
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