“>
The Rolling Stones are almost a religion in Argentina. The fringe, the canvas shoes and the worn jeans paint the passion of blue and white. Aesthetics and the flag of the homeland calculation it is for export. Keith Richards showed it, who shared the video more on Tuesday rolling in the coquettish streets of Milan, Italy.
Like his peers, Richards is in that northern Italian city, on a new stop on his “Sixty” tour, the first without the late Charlie Watts on drums. Hours before the concert, a group of fans came to broadcast theirs affection and warmth in the best Argentine style.
“Come on, Argentina!”, Begins one of the followers at the exit of the Four Seasons hotel, among luxurious shop windows. “Oh, come on the Stones, the Stones, the Stones, come on the Stones,” he sings, jumping, the rollinga loose in milan. Other fans timidly join.
Two white and blue flags decorated the scene. One of these, the one advocated by the more outgoing in the audience, was a statement of principles: “Argentina, the stonyest country in the world”.
Ron Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richardsen Liverpool, in one of the first stops of their “Sixty” tour. AP photo
It is not the first time that the guitarist – together with Mick Jagger, the only ones who have followed one another since the beginning of the band – is surprised to share fragments of a passion well silver.
At the end of last March, Richards thanked his social networks for a fan meeting at Villa del Parque on the occasion of the release of the deluxe version of “Main Offender”, the solo album that turned 30 and brought him to the cinema. court in 1992 of Velez. “Thank you, Argentina. Love, Keith,” he returned the gesture.
That visit was the first of a Rolling Stones member to Argentina, just in the years when the passion for rolling was expanding with fringe, canvas shoes and denim jackets.
The Rolling Stones and the Argentine public
Keith Richards shared the passion of the Argentine fans of the Rolling Stones of Milan.
Fans have had several opportunities to feed theirs stone of faith. In total, there have been four official visits to the country to date. It all started in February 1995, when the London group presented their latest album with the Voodoo Lounge Tour.
Three years later they did five more shows at the River, on the occasion of their album Bridges to Babylon. In one of them, the fourth of the series, they had a special guest: Bob Dylan, who approached to perform Like a Rolling Stone, a song of which their satanic majesties had made their own version.
The third visit was in 2006, also in Núñez, to introduce the Bigger Band. It was necessary to wait a decade for the fourth series of recitals. It happened in February 2016, at the Ciudad de La Plata stadium, on a tour that took them for the first time to Cuba, where they gave a free recital in Havana.
Postcard of the Argentine public in one of the shows that the Rolling Stones held in La Plata, in 2016. Photo DYN
In the four visits the Argentine public managed to convey their unparalleled passion to the band. The madness experienced in La Plata arrived on the big screens with “Olé Olé Olé: A trip across America”, the documentary that the Rolling Stones released in 2019 to portray that tour that took them for the last time through these payments.
What they are undertaking in these months is an unprecedented tour for the London band: it is the first they have started without Charlie Watts in their ranks. The drummer died on August 24, at the age of 80, in the midst of a hiatus No filter tours.
“Sixty”, which commemorates the 60th anniversary of the group’s founding, started in early June in Madrid. The tour took them through Liverpool, land of the Beatles, and then to London, Amsterdam, Brussels. The concert on Tuesday will be at the San Siro stadium, an icon of Milan, the city of fashion and design to which a group of Argentines have transferred their passion for stone.
DD
Source: Clarin
