Mega Rock Concerts – No Satisfaction for Rolling Stones Fans

– No Satisfaction for Rolling Stones Fans

The mythical group will probably never play in Switzerland again. For the 40,000 spectators, disappointment vies with anger. History of a missed appointment.

Posted today at 1:55 p.m.

The stainless Mick Jagger, with Ron Wood, Charlie Watts and Keith Richards, ignited Zurich. They will not pass through Switzerland. (File photo)

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“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”, we don’t always get what we want… It is nevertheless a piece regularly performed in concert, but here it is, all in the euphoria of the high mass of Stone, foam in hand we fidget but we don’t listen. And yet, they wanted it, the Swiss, this ultimate meeting with the Rolling Stones. Of course, like Trenet or Aznavour once, like Bob Dylan or Deep Purple today, Jagger and his family stretch their last concert over decades, play the clock.

But now, another tasty title, “Time Waits for No One”, the clock is ticking. She has already caught up with Charlie Watts last August and her shadow wins the survivors, Mick Jagger (79 years old in July), Keith Richards (79 years old in December) and Ron Wood (75 years old and a cancer who plays hide and seek). This June 17 would really have been “The Last Time”, the first success of esteem signed Jagger / Richards in 1964. In April of that year, then totally unknown in Switzerland, they gave their first concert outside Great Britain, in the Golden Rose of Montreux, and the organizer, Claude Nobs, had to distribute free tickets to fill the room…