The Rolling Stones new album & The 30 worst album covers of all time

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · May 06, 2026 · 1368 words · By David Mouriquand

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Legendary rockers The Rolling Stones have announced the release date of their new album ‘Foreign Tongues’ and confirmed that it will feature guest appearances from the likes of Paul McCartney and The Cure’s Robert Smith.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 40 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Swamp Dogg - Rat On! (1971)”

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No evidence was found in the search results to confirm the existence of this album or artist.

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Claim 2: “Maroon 5 – Overexposed (2012)”

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Claim 3: “Soulja Boy - Souljaboytellem.com (2007)”

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Claim 4: “The Rolling Stones have announced the release date of their new album ‘Foreign Tongues’”

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Wikipedia explicitly states that 'Foreign Tongues' is the upcoming twenty-fifth studio album by the Rolling Stones.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Foreign Tongues is the upcoming twenty-fifth studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, planned for release on 10 July 2026. The lead single "In the Stars" was released through YouTube …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Tongues

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for over six decades, they are one of the most popular, influential, and enduring bands of the rock era. In the early 1960s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The tongue and lips logo or alternatively the lips and tongue logo, also known as the Hot Lips logo, or the Rolling Stones Records logo, or simply the Rolling Stones logo, is a logo designed by the En…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_and_lips_logo

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Claim 5: “Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito (2013)”

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Claim 6: “Millie Jackson - Back To The S**t! (1989)”

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Claim 7: “South Korean artist Beomsik Shimbe Shim’s mind when he came up with this [Mosquito cover]”

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Claim 8: “It comes out on 10 July”

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Wikipedia explicitly states the album is planned for release on 10 July 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of a typical tetrapod. It manipulates food for chewing and swallowing as part of the digestive process, and is the primary organ of taste. The tongue's uppe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, is a phenomenon or practice in which people utter words or speech-like sounds, often thought by believers to be languages unknown to the speaker. One de…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_in_tongues

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Claim 9: “Boned - Up At The Crack (2004)”

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Claim 10: “Scorpions - Lovedrive (1979)”

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Claim 11: “Green Day – Father Of All Motherfuckers (2020)”

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Claim 12: “Corey Feldman – Angelic 2 The Core (2016)”

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Claim 13: “Barbara Markay - Give Your Dick to Me (1980)”

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Claim 14: “has been teased by the energetic single ‘Rough and Twisted’ and rather catchy ‘In The Stars’”

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Wikipedia confirms that the lead single 'In the Stars' and the single 'Rough and Twisted' were released to promote the album.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The English rock group the Rolling Stones have released 25 studio albums (27 in the US), 12 contemporary live albums, 27 archival live albums, 32 compilation albums, 3 extended plays, 124 singles, 31 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_discography

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Claim 15: “Heino - Liebe Mutter... Ein Blumenstrauß, der nie verwelkt (1972)”

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Claim 16: “The German artist [Heino] has sold over 50 million records”

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Claim 17: “Ringo Starr – Stop And Smell The Roses (1981)”

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Claim 18: “Pam Ayres - Will Anybody Marry Me? (1977)”

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Claim 19: “this posthumously released collection of re-recordings from between 1964 and 1971 [Toy]”

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Claim 20: “Lady Gaga - Born This Way (2011)”

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Claim 21: “Limp Bizkit - Presents Chocolate St★rfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000)”

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Claim 22: “Storm Thorgerson, who was responsible for some of Pink Floyd’s greatest albums sleeves”

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Claim 23: “Eric Clapton - Old Sock (2013)”

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Claim 24: “Pat Cooper - Spaghetti Sauce & Other Delights (1966)”

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Claim 25: “Crosby, Stills & Nash – Live It Up (1990)”

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Claim 26: “The Faith Tones - Jesus Use Me (1964)”

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Claim 27: “The Rolling Stones have aced it in the past, with the likes of ‘Sticky Fingers’, ‘Exile on Main St.’ and ‘A Bigger Bang’”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists only of dictionary definitions for the word 'rolling' and does not confirm the release of these specific albums.

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web search NEUTRAL — Idiom a rolling stone (gathers no moss) (Definition of rolling from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/rolli…

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web search NEUTRAL — ROLLING definition: the action, motion, or sound of anything that rolls. See examples of rolling used in a sentence.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/rolling

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web search NEUTRAL — Rolling hills are small hills with gentle slopes that extend a long way into the distance. ...the rolling countryside of southwestern France. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright ©…
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/roll…

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Claim 28: “Pooh-Man (Mc Pooh) - Funky As I Wanna Be (1992)”

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Claim 29: “confirmed that it will feature guest appearances from the likes of Paul McCartney and The Cure’s Robert Smith”

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While Wikipedia confirms the album 'Foreign Tongues', the provided evidence does not mention guest appearances by Paul McCartney or Robert Smith.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English musician and songwriter. He gained global fame with the Beatles, for whom he was the bassist and keyboardist, and shared primary songwriting …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The discography of Paul McCartney consists of 27 studio albums, 5 compilation albums, 10 live albums, 50 video albums, 4 extended plays, 132 singles, 2 remix albums, 7 classical albums, 4 electronica …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney_discography

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Claim 30: “Crash Test Dummies – Give Yourself A Hand (1999)”

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Claim 31: “Kevo Muney – Baby G.O.A.T. (2019)”

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Claim 32: “Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork (2022)”

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Claim 33: “The rock veterans’ 25th studio album - the follow up to 2023’s ‘Hackney Diamonds’”

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Wikipedia confirms 'Foreign Tongues' is the twenty-fifth studio album. The Rolling Stones discography page confirms they have released 25 studio albums, and 'Hackney Diamonds' (2023) is their most recent prior release.

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Claim 34: “David Bowie – Toy (2021)”

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Claim 35: “Robert Wotherspoon - Music to Massage Your Mate By (1976)”

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Claim 36: “Morrissey – Make-Up Is A Lie (2026)”

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Claim 37: “Paddy Roberts – Songs For Gay Dogs (1963)”

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Claim 38: “The Handsome Beasts - Beastiality (1996)”

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Claim 39: “William Hung - Hung For The Holidays (2004)”

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Claim 40: “Justin Bieber – Believe (2012)”

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