‘It kicks ass’: Rolling Stones launch new album at star-studded New York event

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood join Conan O’Brien to discuss forthcoming album Foreign Tongues On Tuesday afternoon in New York, the Rolling Stones gathered friends, journalists and fellow artists for a preview of their forthcoming 25th album, Foreign Tongues. Before the trio stepped on stage, host Conan O’Brien deadpanned that perhaps, finally, this is the album where the band will “finally make it after decades of obscurity”. The audience, which included Leonardo DiCaprio, director Baz Luhrmann and actor Odessa A’zion, laughed appreciatively. Seven decades into their career and with more than 250m albums sold, the band hardly need to cement their legacy. But recent years have seen the group – now a three-piece in the wake of drummer Charlie Watts’s death in 2021 – creatively re-energized. Hackney Diamonds, their 2023 album, was praised by the Guardian’s Alexis Petridis as a return to form that “crackles with a sense of purpose”. On Foreign Tongues, the band once again team up with Hackney Diamonds producer Andrew Watt (Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber), as well as a slew of special guests including Steve Winwood, Paul McCartney, the Cure’s Robert Smit