The Rolling Stones shooting the video for 'I Go Wild' in Ex Templo de San Lázaro, Mexico City in January 1995. © Fernando Aceves
The Rolling Stones are reportedly working on new studio album. According to the Mail Online both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been at recording studios in London and New York. And their label Universal has renewed a contract for a new LP. Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts will also be involved.
Before that the band will be releasing a live compilation album in time for Christmas. Then next year will release the new studio album, perhaps finishing it after they complete their upcoming European ‘No Filter’ tour, which kicks off on 9 September at Hamburg, Germany and finishes in Paris on 22 October.
Keith Richards performing with The Rolling Stones onstage at the Feyenoordstadion Rotterdam, Holland in August 2003. © Dimitri Hakke
According to the Mail Online a ‘musical insider’ said, “Both Mick and Keith would rather be carried off stage in a coffin than give up their great love—writing and making music. They were experimenting in the studio earlier this year, and everything just gelled. They ended up with around 15 tracks which they have cut down to album-length, and when the label execs heard it they were thrilled. Age is no barrier to brilliant music, and there is no doubt the new stuff will sell.”
The Stones released their last album in December 2016. Called Blue And Lonesome it was an album of blues covers recorded in just three days, and was their first album in more than ten years, since 2005. The album got some great reviews and was No. 1 in the UK charts.
Mick and Keith performing at the The Roundhouse, London, UK in March 1971. © Pete Smith
In their review of it Rolling Stone said, “Made on impulse, as a much-needed break during other studio work, Blue and Lonesome is a monument to muscle memory. Solos are brief and tight, evoking the honed-punch effect of the original recordings. The running highlight throughout the album is the churning ensemble bond: the hot-plate jump of the guitars over the chasing rhythm in the Little Walter sprint "I Gotta Go"; the feral, stalking tension in Magic Sam's "All of Your Love" as Jagger tears at the title lyric like an upper-octave Howlin' Wolf.”
One of the shots from the very first photo shoot in early 1963. Taken five days after Andrew Loog Oldham signed the band. © Philip Townsend
All in their 70s and with a collective age of 292 the Stones don’t seem to want to retire any time soon. And fans don’t seem to want them to either. Their No Filter European tour sold out in minutes, and the band did a Latin America tour last year, called América Latina Olé Tour 2016, which ended with them playing a historic, and free, concert in Havana, Cuba to 500,000 fans.
Rolling Stones on stage at their celebrated Steel Wheels Tour in Los Angeles, in October 1989. © Eugene Adebari
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The Rolling Stones are an English rock band who were in the vanguard of the British music Invasion that became popular in the US in 1964–65.
Keith Richards performing with The Rolling Stones onstage at the Feyenoordstadion Rotterdam, Holland in August 2003
I concentrated on getting a good picture of Kieth and this is it. His assistant bought one so I must have caught something special!
Does she still like The Stones?. Outside 113 Cheyne Walk. Later Mick, Charlie and Bill all got houses in the area.
Don’t try this now as you would probably drown. Standing on the Thames during the first photo shoot.
One of the shots from the very first photo shoot in early 1963. Taken five days after Andrew Loog Oldham signed the band.
I heard The Rolling Stones were doing a gig at the Roundhouse. I didn’t have ticket or pass. Waving my camera I blagged my way in
This was the second and last time that the Stones wore these check jackets.
I heard The Rolling Stones were doing a gig at the Roundhouse. I didn’t have ticket or pass. Waving my camera I blagged my way in
I heard The Rolling Stones were doing a gig at the Roundhouse. I didn’t have ticket or pass. Waving my camera I blagged my way in
Mick Jagger making a guest appearance with Billy Preston at the Rainbow Theatre. He wore blue eye-shadow and a white suit
Beautiful Bob Gruen photograph of Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones playing guitar in New York in 1972.
The Stones having a quick smoke before their appearance on 'Thank Your Lucky Stars' at ATV studios in Birmingham.
I heard The Rolling Stones were doing a gig at the Roundhouse. I didn’t have ticket or pass. Waving my camera I blagged my way in
The Rolling Stones shooting the video for 'I Go Wild' in Mexico City in January 1995
Keith Richards and Mick Jagger performing onstage with The Rollihg Stones at Foro Sol, Mexico City in February 1998
Charlie Wats, drummer with The Rolling Stones, captured in his room in the Halcyon Hotel, London in March 1991
Mick Jagger & Keith Richards from The Rolling Stones performing live at the legendary Madison Square Gardens, New York in July 1972
Glastonbury Festival June 2013, Mick Jagger headlining with the Rolling Stones on the Pyramid Stage
Los Angeles October 1989, Keith Richards performs onstage on The Rolling Stones Steel Wheels Tour
Rolling Stones onstage on their celebrated Steel Wheels Tour in Los Angeles in October 1989
Hyde Park, July 1969 Mick Jagger performs onstage at 'Stones in the Park' just two days after the death of former band member Brian Jones
Legendary Mexican photographer Fernando Aceves systematically focuses on music full-time and is a world authority on King Crimson.
Currently working as a freelance journalist/photographer, Dimitri Hakke became interested in photography because of his elder brother.
Pete Smith was a roady with Alexis Korner when friend John Mayall asked, “Pete, you’ve got a camera, come & shoot our record sleeve".
As the 60' swung & Britain subverted the old order, Philip Townsend (known as ‘Mr Sixties’) captured many of the stars of the decade.
