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Sprung upon an unsuspecting public with all the attendant media hoopla that one might expect, Hackney Diamonds, the Rolling Stones’ first album of original material in 18 years doesn’t disappoint. Though many suspected it might. The Glimmer Twins were still trying their sixties on for size as they unleashed in ’05, but could they still cut it while teetering on the very brink of their eighties?