LOS ANGELES (AP) — The wait is over: The Rolling Stones
will soon release new music.

On Monday, the band announced they are preparing to release
their first album of original material in 18 years — since 2005’s
"A Bigger Bang."

Titled "Hackney Diamonds," the band will share details of the
release at an event in East London’s Hackney district on
Wednesday.

Jack Sonni (December 9, 1954 – August 30, 2023)

Known as “the other guitarist” during the iconic group’s Brothers
in Arms era, his passing was announced by the band. No cause
of death was given.

ED DANAHUE

Photograph during the eruption in 1883.

An 1888 lithograph of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.

The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait occurred
from 20 May until 21 October 1883, peaking in the late
morning hours of 27 August when over 70% of the island
of Krakatoa and its surrounding archipelago were destroyed
as it collapsed into a caldera.

The eruption was one of the deadliest and most destructive
volcanic events in recorded history.

On August 24, 1981, Mark David Chapman (above) was sentenced
to 20 years to life for the murder of John Lennon, a founding
member of The Beatles, one of the most successful bands in the
history of popular music.    

On December 8, 1980, Chapman shot and killed the 40-year-old
singer, songwriter and peace activist, outside Lennon’s New
York City apartment building, the Dakota, where he lived with
his wife Yoko Ono and their young son Sean.

John Lennon (left) and Chapman minutes before the shooting.

The Beatles took America by storm during their famous first
visit, wowing the millions who watched them during their
historic television appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show in
February 1964. The Beatles finally returned on August 19,
1964, more than six months after taking the East Coast by
storm.The Fab Four traveled to California to take the stage
at the Cow Palace in San Francisco for opening night of their
first-ever concert tour of North America.