Stainless Rolling Stones. Despite their age and ailments, the eternal English rock band is carrying out a world tour to promote its latest work, “Hackney Diamonds”. And – even if the official announcement will only arrive between the end of January and the beginning of February – it seems that the European tranche is already defined, including a single Italian stage, at the Olympic stadium in Rome, scheduled for the last week of May, starting of the long Capitoline rock summer.
After months of indiscretions, in fact, even the site stonenews.com, very close to the band, explicitly talks about “Europe-Tour 2025”. Regarding the offers on the table, Mick Jagger said in the summer: “We will evaluate the proposals and we will go and where it will be funnier, it could be Europe, South America, anywhere.”
The Hackney Diamonds Tour could therefore bring Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ron Wood, 218 years old between them, back to the Capital eleven years after the glorious stage at the Circus Maximus in 2014, when they performed in front of over 70,000 spectators, while the last concert at the Rolling Stones' Olympic Stadium dates back to 2007.
The site stonenews.com, believed to be very close to the band, explicitly spoke about one tranche of the Hackney Diamonds Tour. And according to the QN and Il Messaggero, the date at the Olimpico is practically a done deal.
“Hackney Diamonds” (2023) is the first studio album containing unreleased songs since “A Bigger Bang” (2005), but in all this time our band has never really been idle, between global tours and the publication of the excellent album of blues covers “Blue And Lonesome” (2016), which also earned them a Grammy Award. The work is also the first published following the death of the historic drummer Charlie Watts, who appears in two songs, “Mess It Up” and “Live By The Sword”.
Mindful of the success of “Blue And Lonesome”, within “Hackney Diamonds” the rolling stones have opted for a push on the greatest strengths that contributed to making them famous, with a focus on blues-rock songs, up to those from pop veins, to ballads and orchestral soul, among more or less successful experiments. And if it were an actual career closure, as would seem to emerge from the lyrics and the very end of the album, after all, what more could you ever ask of him?
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
