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[OneHungLow]

Rolling Stones appear to tease new album in fake ad in local newspaper

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/23/entertai ... index.html

If you’re looking for a rock ‘n’ roll end to the summer, then the Rolling Stones may have you covered.

The British rock legends appear to have teased a new album through a fake ad for a glass-repair business placed in a local London newspaper.

The cryptic ad, which appeared in the east London-based Hackney Gazette last week, looks at first glance like a promotion for the new business, Hackney Diamonds, but on closer examination it contains references to several of the band’s biggest hits.

“Our friendly team promises you satisfaction,” it reads. “When you say gimme shelter we’ll fix your shattered windows.”

A quick call to the phone number listed in the ad leads to a recorded message.

“Welcome to Hackney Diamonds, specialists in glass repairs,” a Cockney-accented male voice says. “Don’t get angry, get it fixed.”

Hackney Diamonds supposedly opens for business in early September – something fans are interpreting as a hint at an album release date.

The Stones have yet to make a statement on an upcoming album, which fans believe will be called “Hackney Diamonds,” but there are enough Easter eggs to keep them going.

A peek at the Hackney Diamonds website shows the name of the new business to be written in the same font as the band’s 1978 “Some Girls” album. The letter “i” in “Diamonds” is dotted with the Stones’ famous lips logo, and the site states the business was established in 1962 – the same year the band was formed. Perhaps most tellingly, the site’s privacy terms and conditions are those of Universal Music Group, the band’s record label.

A new album would be the Stones’ 31st studio album and their first since the 2021 death of drummer Charlie Watts.

A Rolling Stones representative contacted by CNN declined to comment on the ad.

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The Strolling Bones, all diamond geezers, when they aren't polishing their zimmer frames...

[bob2s]

Hydro, I hope you did not experience the unrest we experienced in and about Panguna when we were stream sampling for Conzinc Riotinto Australia in1968
We (Rotor Work) supplied the helicopter for the MV Craestar, and we surveyed from Vanimo PNG, Manus Island, New Britain then down through the Solomons, Vanuatu and onto the Cook Islands. This Bougainville episode certainly put the wind up the Geologists.
https://rogermarjoribanks.info/incident-bougainville/

[OneHungLow]

[OneHungLow]

Hydro, I hope you did not experience the unrest we experienced in and about Panguna when we were stream sampling for Conzinc Riotinto Australia in1968
We (Rotor Work) supplied the helicopter for the MV Craestar, and we surveyed from Vanimo PNG, Manus Island, New Britain then down through the Solomons, Vanuatu and onto the Cook Islands. This Bougainville episode certainly put the wind up the Geologists.
https://rogermarjoribanks.info/incident-bougainville/

Later period but on the same theme... very good book and film worth watching.



https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/ ... ookerprize

Film available n Amazon (In the UK at least).

[Karearea]

[The Mysterious Disappearance Of A Sea Pioneer | Joshua Slocum Documentary]

Very interesting documentary. Thank you for posting, OHL.
Beautiful little ship. Especially poignant to see the piece of sail.

Recommending Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World in a list of books for children who had enjoyed the Swallows and Amazons series, Arthur Ransome suggested that "Boys who do not like this book ought to be drowned at once,"
...
His epitaph may be left to Arthur Ransome:

... the Spray sailed on her last voyage, but she and her captain have joined the immortals and are sailing still, and will sail on so long as men can read his lovable and simple-hearted book.

https://www.allthingsransome.net/literary/slocum2.htm

[Karearea]

Sir Nils Olav promoted to Brigadier by Norwegian King's Guard [3:31]

On Monday morning, 22 August, His Majesty the King of Norway’s Guard paid a very special visit to RZSS Edinburgh Zoo to bestow a unique honour upon our resident king penguin Sir Nils Olav. Already a knight, the most famous king penguin in the world was given the new title of “Brigadier Sir Nils Olav”.

Some amusing comments below the video

[Karearea]

Pirate Hunting: Meet the Counter-Piracy Task Force | ENDEVR Documentary [57:53]

[OneHungLow]

[Karearea]

Remembering this day, Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982)

won her third Oscar for her role in Murder on the Orient Express; superb acting - this scene shot in one take - [4:14]



Other great films: Indiscreet (1958) with Cary Grant, have enjoyed it several times:

Indiscreet Starring Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman 11-12-2018 [1hr 40min]



also with Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946) [1hr 40min] - absolutely gripping, I have this on DVD;



and the immortal Casablanca.

[OneHungLow]

Thanks for posting those. It is years since I watched Notorious. I feel another viewing is imminent.

Casablanca is an all time favourite of mine, right up there with the The African Queen and The Maltese Falcon.

[Karearea]

Thanks for posting those. It is years since I watched Notorious. I feel another imminent viewing coming on.

Casablanca is an all time favourite of mine, right up there with the The African Queen and The Maltese Falcon.

I have all of those on DVD, and many other Bogart films. The Caine Mutiny is superb.

[Karearea]

(YT Oarfish | This Legendary Fish That Announces Tsunamis)

Most interesting documentary - thank you, OHL. Beautifully constructed creatures.
Did not know that there were Great White sharks in the Med.
A little surprised that more was not made of the creatures being known as the Messenger from the Sea God's Palace. Myths don't usually arise without some substance behind them.
I can imagine that geomagnetic disruptions, pressure changes, vibrations, infrasound, whatever goes on down there while seismic activity is building, can be detected by fish in the delicate structures that keep them the right way up, and maybe they become damaged or disoriented. Like pilot whale strandings that similarly are reported before earthquakes.
I suppose the mechanism may be discovered one day.

Pleased to have recognised the tones of the Armenian duduk in the soundtrack.

[OneHungLow]

(YT Oarfish | This Legendary Fish That Announces Tsunamis)

Most interesting documentary - thank you, OHL. Beautifully constructed creatures.
Did not know that there were Great White sharks in the Med.
A little surprised that more was not made of the creatures being known as the Messenger from the Sea God's Palace. Myths don't usually arise without some substance behind them.
I can imagine that geomagnetic disruptions, pressure changes, vibrations, infrasound, whatever goes on down there while seismic activity is building, can be detected by fish in the delicate structures that keep them the right way up, and maybe they become damaged or disoriented. Like pilot whale strandings that similarly are reported before earthquakes.
I suppose the mechanism may be discovered one day.

Pleased to have recognised the tones of the Armenian duduk in the soundtrack.

I think you are onto something there Karearea. In the documentary, fish of all species were attracted to the line and buoy by the vibrations/noise it was making. The deep infrasound that precedes and occurs during an earthquake may very well disorient these marine creatures. Their vestibular organs may be confused by the varying frequencies and, perhaps, even the electromagnetic pulses that have been measured in the vicinity of seismic events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquak ... 20involved.

[Karearea]

From the blog, BAMF Style - Iconic and interesting men's fashions from movies and TV

Richard Attenborough in The Great Escape

[OneHungLow]

I have belatedly become a fan of Fleabag..

She is such an egregious character and yet human and likeable for all her manifest faults...

[OneHungLow]

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[Karearea]

From Dr Mark Felton:

In 1946, a secret plot emerged to make the Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII, king again, but not of Britain, but of part of a foreign country. Find out the full story of this completely forgotten and overlooked story.

The Man Who Would Be King...Again? The 1946 Duke of Windsor Plot [15:46]

[PHXPhlyer]

Rolling Stones set to release first album of new songs since 2005

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/entertai ... index.html

The Rolling Stones are set to release their first studio album since 2005.

The band recently teased the new music in the British newspaper the Hackney Gazette. The ad included a website and a phone number, which revealed a recording saying, “Welcome to Hackney Diamonds, specialists in glass repair. Don’t get angry, get it fixed. Opening early September, Mare Street, E8. Register for a call at hackneydiamonds.com. Come on then.”

The new album is titled “Hackney Diamonds.”

On Wednesday, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood will do an interview with Jimmy Fallon in London. The late Stones drummer Charlie Watts died in August 2021. The new album will include music the band made with Watts before his death and will feature Paul McCartney playing bass on one track.

Fallon’s interview will live-stream on YouTube on Wednesday.

PP

[Karearea]

I always appreciate documentaries from this Real Time History channel on YT, I find the presentations especially enhanced by the use of contemporary correspondence from those at the scenes, and the narration is superb.

Battle of Borodino - 7 September 1812

The Battle of Borodino was the deadliest single day in history until the outbreak of the First World War. It was the culmination of Napoleon's advance on Moscow. Due to the terrain and the Russian positions, it was a gigantic battle of attrition - which Napoleon won at a high cost.

Napoleon's Deadliest Day - Battle of Borodino 1812 (Napoleonic Wars Documentary) [15:32]