Evergreen rockers the Rolling Stones celebrated the release of their first album of original music in 18 years with a surprise Manhattan club gig on Thursday. Before a celebrity-strewn audience of invited guests that included Christie Brinkley, Elvis Costello and Trevor Noah at the downtown club Racket NYC, the Stones made a notable racket themselves over seven songs, four from the new Hackney Diamonds disc. Mick Jagger alluded to past stunts the Stones had done in New York to tout new music over the years, including performing on a flatbed truck on Fifth Avenue. He saluted the city by opening with the 1970s-era punkish tune, Shattered, with the lyric “my brain’s been splattered all over Manhattan”. After performing the new single, Angry, Jagger noted to his bandmates: “There’s a first time for everything.” With the death of drummer Charlie Watts in 2021, the Stones are down to a core trio of Jagger and guitarists Keith Richards and Ron Wood. They are supplemented onstage with four other musicians. Hackney Diamonds, coming at a time many fans …

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