{"id":221216,"date":"2026-05-05T22:12:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221216\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T22:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:12:42","slug":"rolling-stones-conan-obrien-launch-foreign-tongues-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221216\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stones, Conan O’Brien Launch ‘Foreign Tongues’ in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cRats on the west side \/ bedbugs uptown\u201d Mick Jagger once sang about Manhattan\u2014and though New York City has changed a lot since the Rolling Stones<\/a> released \u201cShattered\u201d in 1978 (arguably more than they have), those memories were perhaps reason enough for the band to hold their new album launch event across the East River 48 years later.<\/p>\n

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\n\tJust hours after officially confirming<\/a> a full-length titled Foreign Tongues was coming on July 10, the incalculably influential rock band took over The Weylin, a domed, churchlike events space constructed in 1875 that had long served as a neighborhood bank in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tTo celebrate the upcoming Capitol Records LP, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood sat down with comedian\/podcast host\/noted ginger Conan O\u2019Brien for a wide-ranging discussion about the 14-track LP, which includes guest spots from Paul McCartney, Robert Smith of The Cure, Steve Winwood and Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers, plus longtime collaborators Darryl Jones, Matt Clifford and Steve Jordan. (Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who died in 2021, is also included on Foreign Tongues via one of his last recording sessions.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is the gig of a lifetime,\u201d O\u2019Brien said before the bank\u2019s vintage vault door swung open and Jagger, Richards and Wood waltzed out to join him onstage. Splitting the difference between wisecracking host and lifelong fan, O\u2019Brien \u2014 who said he has listened to the new album 25 times so far \u2014 told Jagger his vocals on Foreign Tongues didn\u2019t sound all that different from his recordings from 1968. \u201cWell, I was taking a lot of drugs in \u201968,\u201d Jagger replied with a smirk, playing down the compliment. \u201cThis is an invention, by the way,\u201d O\u2019Brien shot back, to which Jagger moaned, \u201cNot another one!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tO\u2019Brien also had a great moment with the untamable Richards, who gamely answered many questions, only not necessarily into the microphone. At one point, O\u2019Brien reached between their chairs to place his mic to Keef\u2019s lips when the guitarist forgot to use his own. \u201cThat\u2019s the Irish in you!\u201d Richards quipped. \u201cI keep forgetting this thing,\u201d he laughed. Then, jokingly griping about the venue\u2019s acoustics, Richards shouted out the album\u2019s producer, Andrew Watt, who was seated in the front row (Watt also helmed 2023\u2019s Hackney Diamonds). \u201cAndrew, this is the worst echo chamber I\u2019ve ever heard!\u201d he said. \u201cIf I ever do a gig with you again, I\u2019m gluing [the microphone] to your face,\u201d O\u2019Brien chided.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe chat, naturally, also delved into the new LP. For those wondering how The Cure frontman ended up on a Rolling Stones album, well, it turns out the reason is just as random as you\u2019d expect.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI turned up one day to do my vocals in London and there\u2019s this bloke standing there with his back to me with a long gown on,\u201d Jagger recounted. \u201cWhen he turned round he was covered in lipstick. We\u2019d never met before and I said, \u2018You are Robert Smith of The Cure!\u2019 And he said, \u2018Yeah!’\u201d Shortly thereafter, Smith was singing backup on a Stones track. \u201cThat\u2019s how collaborations work sometimes,\u201d Jagger mused. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs for McCartney, Wood explained how the Beatle ended up on their album. Apparently, Sir Paul decided it was time to check an item off his bucket list. \u201cHe says, \u2018Now I can say I\u2019ve played with the Rolling Stones. Wow!’\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n

\n\tPrior to the official announcement, the Stones teased their new project by releasing Foreign Tongues\u2019 first track, \u201cRough and Twisted,\u201d on vinyl only under the name The Cockroaches mid-April; on May 5, melodic lead single \u201cIn the Stars\u201d hit streaming services.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s no word yet on whether the Stones will tour following this LP. After Hackney Diamonds, which hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and No. 2 on the Top Album Sales charts, the band embarked upon an 18-date tour in the summer of 2024 that earned them $235 million, according to Billboard Boxscore.<\/a> That album also launched<\/a> with a New York City event: the Englishmen shook the walls of Manhattan venue The Racket in October 2023 alongside special guest Lady Gaga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cRats on the west side \/ bedbugs uptown\u201d Mick Jagger once sang about Manhattan\u2014and though New York City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,13379,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-221216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-genre-rock","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}