The Rolling Stones’ new album ‘Foreign Tongues’ is set to include a cover of an Amy Winehouse classic.
The rock legends officially announced the record earlier this month, confirming that it would feature guest appearances from Paul McCartney, Robert Smith, Steve Winwood and the band’s late drummer Charlie Watts.
The album will be made up of 14 tracks, including the lead single ‘In The Stars’ and the raw, bluesy ‘Rough And Twisted’, and it will be released on July 10 via Polydor/Universal Music and you can pre-order it here.
During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this week, Ronnie Wood also revealed that the record includes a version of Winehouse’s ‘You Know I’m No Good’, first released on her landmark second album ‘Back To Black’ in 2006.
The Stones are long-time admirers of Winehouse, with Mick Jagger saying back in 2007 that he wanted to work with her ahead of them sharing a bill at the 2007 Isle Of Wight Festival line-up.
In the end, they did share a stage, singing a duet of The Temptations’ ‘Ain’t Too Proud To Beg’, which you can watch here:
At a media event in New York this week, the band also revealed how they ended up working with The Cure’s Robert Smith. “He was standing there with his back to me and this long gown on and when he turned around, he was covered in lipstick,” Jagger said. “And I said, I never met him before, ‘You’re Robert Smith of The Cure’. And he said, ‘Yeah, we’ve never met’. And I said, ‘While you’re here, you better go and do something’. That’s how collaborations work sometimes,” he smiled.
Ronnie Wood also revealed that he has written a tribute to The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson on the record, under the title ‘Back In Your Life’.
The whole record was brought to life in less than one month at Metropolis Studios in West London, with production from Andrew Watt – who also worked with them on 2024’s ‘Hackney Diamonds’.
“I love doing these recording sessions in London at Metropolis,” said Jagger. “It was a very intense few weeks recording ‘Foreign Tongues’. We had 14 great tracks and we went as fast as we could. I like the room there as it’s not too big so you can feel the passion in the room from everyone.”
Keith Richards added that the record has a sense of “continuity from ‘Hackney Diamonds’” and captures “that London vibe” that the last record had, while Wood added that the “the atmosphere in the room was so creative, and the whole band was on top form throughout the whole process”.
“Very often we nailed it on the first take. I hope everyone loves it,” he added.
The Rolling Stones are unlikely to announce a full tour anytime soon. In late 2025, they confirmed that they scrapped plans for a UK and European stadium tour in 2026 because Keith Richards was unable to “commit” to it.
The group embarked on their North American ‘Hackney Diamonds’ tour in 2024, with the trek landing at Number Six on the list of the highest-grossing music world tours of that year. They last played the UK in 2022, when two huge London BST Hyde Park gigs followed a stadium concert in Liverpool.
