Rolling With the Psych Stones

Their Satanic Majesties Request, Revisited

You may have heard that the Rolling Stones have a new single and video called "Angry," a little taste before the release of their first studio album of new material in 18 years, since A Bigger Bang, or at least big enough bang, in 2005.

What our beloved codgers are angry about remains to be seen: I will withhold opinion until the album, Hackney Diamonds, will be released circa Oct. 19 or 20, 2023. Actually, hackney diamonds is East London slang for breaking glass, especially the kind in which car windows are smashed for the purpose of stealing your cassette deck or CD player, or just good old hooligan fun.

There was a time when we learned most of our British slang from those gorgeously matched pepper and salt shakers, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. A man in a "mac" was wearing a raincoat; a "block" was a collection of apartment buildings.

I guess the Beatles would be the pepper shakers, and the Stones would soon being singing about "Salt of the Earth" on Beggar's Banquet, released a…