Rolling Stones

A few weeks away from his 83rd birthday, which he'll celebrate on July 26, Mick Jagger is still looking ahead. The frontman of the Rolling Stones, busy promoting the new album “Foreign Tongues”, out on July 10, has looked back with some irony on chapters of the band's long history, joking about how short some of their past records were: “Some of our albums only have eight songs on them. How is that possible? You're 30 years old and you only make eight songs? What were you doing?”.
The new record contains twelve new tracks and two covers, “You Know I’m No Good” by Amy Winehouse and “Delilah” by Chuck Berry. Recorded in just a month at Metropolis Studios in London under producer Andrew Watt, the album has already fuelled speculation about a possible farewell record from the Stones. It's a theory Jagger has flatly dismissed: “I've got plenty more songs to write”. The singer also revealed that during the same sessions the band worked on at least ten other tracks, suggesting there's no shortage of material for the future.

Looking back on the twenty-five albums the Rolling Stones have released since their 1964 debut to today, Jagger admitted he can't single out a favourite. “The list is long: I think 'Sticky Fingers' is really good, 'Beggars Banquet' is a great record, and 'Hackney Diamonds' is pretty good too”. Three titles – two classics, and another perhaps thrown in for good measure? – that capture very different eras of the band's career, from the late-Sixties blues-rock to the electric energy of the early Seventies, right up to their 2023 comeback record after eighteen years away.

According to Jagger, the ability to reinvent themselves has been one of the keys to the Stones' longevity. “We've gone through so many phases, so many styles”, he observed, pointing out that “Foreign Tongues” too was made with the aim of further widening the band's range. “We want to raise the bar, show that we're capable of doing lots of different things”.

The new album "Foreign Tongues", according to early impressions, brings together two historic sides of the Rolling Stones: on one hand, the raw, visceral blues of Keith Richards, harking back to the spirit of "Exile On Main Street"; on the other, the more melodic, pop-leaning instincts of Mick Jagger that defined "Some Girls". At least that's how journalist Will Hodgkinson describes "Foreign Tongues", the band's new album due out on July 10th. In his review published in the Times, Hodgkinson was the first to write about the record after hearing it in full. Among the aspects that struck him most was the spontaneous, immediate atmosphere of the recordings, with a sound that conveys the feeling of a band playing live.

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24/06/2026