The Rolling Stones have revealed that they made their new album, Foreign Tongues, "in a month".
The album, which was released on Friday (July 10), featured guest contributors, Robert Smith, Steve Winwood, Bruno Mars and Sir Paul McCartney. Foreign Tongues is the band's 25th studio album, and features the single, Jealous Lover. Find out more about this track here.
Now, the band have released a statement saying that the recording process for this album took approximately four weeks.
"We put this album together in under a month at Metropolis Studios in our hometown of London – it was a lot of fun. The critics seem to like it, we hope everyone loves it!", they said in their statement.
Earlier this week, the Rolling Stones launched this album with a glamourous party in London, which featured a drone show, lighting up the London sky. The party was also attended by Glen Matlock, Sacha Baron Cohen, Daniel Craig, John McEnroe, Sam Fender, Rachel Wesiz and Vernon Kay.
This party took place at the St Clement Hotel, in Aldwych, a place which officially opens to the public in September. More on this story from Nova here.
This show also saw Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood deliver an impromptu performance of a new track, Ringing Hollow, which also features on Foreign Tongues. The pair were also joined on stage by pianist Matt Clifford, a long time collaborator of Jagger. He has also played keyboards in the Rolling Stones' touring band.
The band's statement also read: "The music for the 500 drone light show was set to the new Stones song In The Stars and is a fitting metaphor to see the iconic and much loved Stones’ tongue hanging over the River Thames to celebrate a record made here in the city of London".
This comes a week after Rolling Stones frontman, Mick Jagger had also claimed that he is "already writing for the next album".
"I’ve already started writing songs anyway. They could be for other people though. When you write a song, you sometimes decide ‘that’s not for me, but it could be for the Chili Peppers’ or whatever", Jagger said in an interview with NME.
Elsewhere, Jagger also said he would love to perform at Glastonbury again.
"I mean it is great when you look up the hill and you see everyone, it’s fantastic. There’s no doubt about it. Do I wanna do it again? Oh, I’ll say yes", he said. More on this from Nova here.
