How many like them are there left? Little, so little. Nothing seems to want to stop the Rolling Stones, among the ultimate rock legends still on stage… At 78 years old for Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, 74 years old for Ronnie Wood, the rock grandpas still have the sacred fire in them, continuing decade following decade rolling their bumps on the roads. It’s official, following No filter”, stadium tour in the United States which gathered more than a million fans last falltheir route will once once more pass through Europe.
Friday, March 11, a short thirteen-second video posted on the group’s social networks had put fans on alert. We discovered there, on the first notes of “Can’t you hear me knocking? » (Can’t you hear me knocking?), a map of Europe studded with their famous logo with the hanging red tongue, like so many appointments announced. They will be 14, announced this Monday morning the group, in 10 European countries.
Sixty, the name of this European tour which marks the 60th anniversary of the group formed in 1962, will begin on June 1 in Madrid (Spain), passing through Munich (Germany), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Milan (Italy), London ( United Kingdom) or Brussels (Belgium) before ending in Stockholm (Sweden) on July 31. On June 9, they will also play at Anfield stadium in Liverpool, the city of the Beatles, a first for more than fifty years.
Almost five years of absence in France
Accompanying Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood will be Darryl Jones on bass and Steve Jordan on drums. The latter had taken over the drumsticks of the group in August 2021 in anticipation of the “No Filter Tour”, at the request of Charlie Watts, then hospitalized. At 80, Stones drummer since 1963 was to go out a few days later.
His death had destroyed the members of the group – “He was the rock around which everything was built”, reacted Mick Jagger -, who had nevertheless continued to move forward as Charlie Watts had asked them, and ensured this American tour. , already postponed for a year due to the Covid. Watts will therefore have played for the last time with the group on August 30, 2019 in Miami.
It’s been almost five years since the Stones performed in France. The last time was three evenings in a row, in October 2017, on the occasion of the inauguration of Paris-La Défense Arena, then called U Arena. They know the Longchamp racecourse well, having set it on fire in the summer of 1995, during the Voodoo Lounge tour, bringing together 164,000 fans there over two evenings. The group’s last outdoor concert.
“There is no bigger group in the world”
For the time being, twice 50,000 seats will be put on sale this Friday March 18 at 10 a.m. for the only two French dates, in Lyon on July 19 and in Paris on July 23. “It will be historic, it is not There is no bigger group in the world, enthuses Angelo Gopee, general manager of Live Nation France, which produces the Parisian concert. We are staying on the Lollapalooza Festival site, which ends on the 17th. We are going to keep all the infrastructure, the wine and champagne bars, the restaurants. »
“We are also going to set up free shuttles from the gates of Auteuil and Maillot. We want to offer the best conditions for people to spend a moment worthy of the event, exceptional, ”he continues. To attend this Parisian date, you will have to pay between 56.50 euros and 342.50 euros, the most expensive rates applying to the 2000 seats as well as those, standing, located in two areas at the foot of the stage. .
In Lyon, the prices of the concert produced by AEG Presents will go from 95 euros on the lawn to 287.50 euros in gold square. Prices at the height of the sum, astronomical one imagines, that costs this type of date, rare and exclusive. “It’s obviously confidential, but yes, the Stones are very expensive. We are talking regarding colossal sums, believes Angelo Gopee. But the Stones are priceless, we don’t do them to make money, but to participate in a moment of history. »
The Sixty tour in detail : Madrid (01/06), Munich (5/06), Liverpool (9/06), Amsterdam (13/06), Bern (17/06), Milan (21/06), London (25/06 and 3 /07), Brussels (11/07), Vienna (15/07), Lyon (19/07), Paris (23/07), Gelsenkirchen (27/07) and Stockholm (31/07).
