During a jokey chat, the English rockers explained how Paul McCartney and The Cure's Robert Smith ended up on their latest album.

Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger, Steve Jordan, and Keith Richards and of The Rolling Stones perform during 'Stones Tour '24 Hackney Diamonds' at MetLife Stadium on May 26, 2024 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Mike Coppola/Getty Images

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“Rats on the west side / bedbugs uptown” Mick Jagger once sang about Manhattan—and though New York City has changed a lot since the Rolling Stones released “Shattered” 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.

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Just hours after officially confirming 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…