At 50, Stones hint at new tour
Half a century after their first live gig on London’s Oxford Street, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the rest of the Rolling Stones will mark the band’s 50th anniversary at a photographic exhibition on Thursday.
Guitarist Richards said this week that the Stones have met up for “a couple of rehearsals”, fanning the fire of rumours that a new world tour may be in the works.
Richards would not go so far as to say when the quartet comprising himself, Jagger, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood would be performing in public again.
“There’s things in the works — I think it’s definitely happening,” he told British broadcaster the BBC. “But when? I can’t say yet.”
“We’re playing around with the idea and had a couple of rehearsals — we’ve got together and it feels so good.”
The exhibition photos and an accompanying book track the rise of a group of fresh-faced British boys who played their first gig at Oxford Street’s Marquee Club in 1962, became the scourge of the establishment in the 1960s, the titans of 70s music and finally the elder statesmen of rock n’ roll in the21st century.
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