Mick Jagger, on one of the breaks throughout the tour that he wanted to show on his Instagram.
This week, in a recent show on Swedish radio station P4, Mick Jagger said: “In rock you need energy and there aren’t many new rock singers yet. But now there is. “
The 78-year-old singer noted, “There’s Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly. That postpunk wave boy is what makes me think there is a little more life in rock and roll”.
Ron Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in Atlanta last year. Photo: AP
The Rolling Stones leader has also ruled out any rumors about his retirement, and that his band’s next concerts won’t be the last. “I’m not planning on this being the last tour. I love being on tour. I wouldn’t have thought if I hadn’t enjoyed it.”
“I enjoy going out on stage and doing my thing. That’s what I do. I want everyone to have fun and forget the problems of life for a few hours and relax and have a good afternoon and evening. ”
a provocation
The Rolling Stones live at Unico Stadium. Photo: Martin Bonetto
In the interview, Jagger also admitted that the Rolling Stones were “surprised” at a lot of people when asked about the decision to remove their hit song from the ’70s. brownsugar from your song list.
He points to the fact that last year, Jagger and his band member Keith Richards told fans they would never be playing again. brownsugar on their tours. The song, which is 50 years old, addresses “the horrors of bondage” and other controversial topics.
He commented that the Rolling Stones were good at causing “shock and awe” back then, but acknowledged that things had to “change”.
“The first few days were a shock and amazement, things couldn’t stay like this forever,” he stressed. “When you started, popular music always needed a shake-up. We were great then.”
Mick Jagger of St. Louis, Missouri, 2021. Photo: AFP
“We had our own style and our own way of approaching things and we had a different way of behaving. And that shocked a lot of people,” he added. “I think a lot of times it’s an exaggeration. reaction, but it became a cliché. It served us in a certain way … we introduced ourselves ”.
The disc Licked Live in NYC
The cover of the Rolling Stones album, “Licked live in NYC”.
An old and beloved Rolling Stones show from 2003, at the ever-fictional Madison Square Garden in New York, will launch next June, in a variety of formats. This has been confirmed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
The concert was part of the band’s 40th anniversary tour, a tour that began in 2002 and continued in 2003, where they played 117 times in various arenas, cinemas and stadiums. The Madison concert had special guest Sheryl Crow Honky Tonk womanand there were also unpublished versions during the Start Me Up, Gimme Shelter Y Sympathy For The Devilamong other classics.
That anniversary tour earned over $ 300 million, making it the second highest-grossing tour to date, behind the 1994-1995 Voodoo Lounge Tour, which was also managed by the venerable Stones.
The Rolling Stones at the small El Mocambo club in Toronto, 1977. IG photo
“With little new music to be promoted, the set-list they presented was dynamic and in total they performed 80 different songs”, wrote about a tour that was less mysterious than magical, because it coincided with the release of a greatest hits album.
Rolling Stones in El Mocambo, 1977. Photo by IG
Dates planned on the Asian continent, at the end of the tour, will have to be postponed due to the SARS outbreak in the area. In addition, Toronto, one of the places where the band usually plays at home, was also affected by the epidemic and for this reason, on July 30, 2003, the band participated in the Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto, a mega-concert. aimed at recovery — both economically as well as psychologically — in the city.
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Source: Clarin
