TWO ROCK LEGENDS. ONE UNEXPECTED STUDIO ENCOUNTER. 🎸🔥 — THE ROLLING STONES AND ROBERT SMITH FINALLY JOIN FORCES The Rolling Stones have unveiled “Divine Intervention,” an electrifying new collaboration with The Cure’s Robert Smith, giving fans a thrilling taste of their upcoming album Foreign Tongues. Smith’s unmistakable guitar work adds a fresh edge to the high-energy rock anthem, marking one of the album’s most anticipated collaborations.

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Listen to The Rolling Stones’ rollicking new song ‘Divine Intervention’ – featuring The Cure’s Robert Smith – and soulful single ‘Jealous Lover’

“There was this bloke standing there with his back to me with his long gown on, and when he turned around he was covered in lipstick,” Mick Jagger recalled of crossing paths with Smith in the studio

two side by side photographs of The Cure's Robert Smith (left) and The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger (right) performing live on stage
The Cure’s Robert Smith and The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger perform live. CREDITS: Barry Brecheisen/WireImage/Getty (L), Gilbert Flores/Getty (R)

The Rolling Stones have shared a new track featuring Robert Smith, ‘Divine Intervention’, along with another single, ‘Jealous Lover’. Listen below.

The songs are the latest previews of the legendary band’s upcoming 25th studio album, ‘Foreign Tongues‘, which is out on July 10 via Polydor/Universal Music.

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Upon announcing the follow-up to 2023’s Grammy-winning ‘Hackney Diamonds’, Mick Jagger and co. revealed that the record would boast contributions from the Cure frontman, and the likes of Paul McCartney and Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ Chad Smith.

‘Divine Intervention’ is a rollicking, high-tempo rock tune, with Smith on electric guitar, and Steve Winwood on piano and organ. The cut is one of two songs to feature Smith on ‘Foreign Tongues’.

You are Robert Smith from the Cure!” Mick Jagger recalls the unexpected moment that led to a Rolling Stones collaboration

Speaking to Vulture about how he enlisted the Cure singer, Jagger recalled how “there was this bloke standing there with his back to me with his long gown on” in the studio, “and when he turned around he was covered in lipstick”.

“He said, ‘Yeah, we’ve never met’,” he continued. “And then I said, ‘Well, while you’re here then you’d better go and do something’. That’s how collaborations work sometimes.”

SOURCE: NME