Mick Jagger has downplayed rumours that The Rolling Stones‘ UK tour could well be their last.
So enjoy these concerts, there may not be any others.
“I haven’t really thought about this set of gigs being our last tour, to be honest,” Jagger says. “There is going to come a point when we don’t want to do it any more, for whatever reason – but I’m not thinking about that this summer.”
(Keith Richards) Mick, god bless him, he had heart surgery but appears to be younger, I wonder if the story that we made a deal with the Devil is true.
But recently 'The Sun' revealed that The Rolling Stones were plan to release a new record and tour next summer. The Sun also published an interview with the guitarist of the band, Ron Wood, who confirmed that the group is working on a new record and revealed the presence, in the album, also of the drummer Charlie Watts, who passed away in August. 2021 at the age of 80. "We are recording the new album and in a few weeks we will go to Los Angeles to do the last things and finish it. Charlie is on some tracks."
Keith Richards says he new Rolling Stones material will be recorded this year. Richards previously confirmed that The Rolling Stones’ touring drummer Steve Jordan will help the band finish the album.
Another major tour, likely to include US, South American and European dates will likely follow the 2023 nw record release.
Rolling Stones Closing Hyde Park BTS 3rd July -Videos
buzzing hours afterwards...
Previously, before his death, Watts said: “I’ve thought that the band might stop a lot of times. I used to think that at the end of every tour. I’d had enough of it – that was it. But no, not really. I hope [when it ends] that everyone says, ‘that’ll be it’. I’d hate for it to be a bloody big argument. That would be a real sad moment. But to say this is the last show wouldn’t be a particularly sad moment, not to me anyway. I’ll just carry on as I was yesterday or today.”
“If Mick said ‘I’m retiring’ I don’t know how we’d do a show without him, or Keith.” (Charlie Watts)
On the other hand, Keith Richards thinks in the same way, almost.
"We have been doing rock 'n' roll for 60 years. we live on stages, recording studios, tours, airplanes, buses. It is difficult to say enough to a magnificent, unique 'reckless' life. We are privileged to be the Rolling Stones. But also, if they call us the greatest rock n roll band in the world, we may be tired, or worse, only getting too old."
"I always said I was going to die on stage, enveloped in flashing lightning, fumes and explosions. But I was young, when i said so. I really enjoy going on stage and playing, but the Stones tours are a giant machine that takes all your energy just thinking about programming it. Is a dam***d fu***ng job".
“Life’s just too interesting to die,” Richards said. “Anything I wanted to do had to be done—I couldn’t slack off. And hey, there was just an awful lot of cocaine involved."
"Sixty years is a hell of a long time. How do you do that?” he continued. “I think the most important thing is that the people in the band want to stay together. Unfortunately there is always an end to everything. And the Stones, sooner or later, will have to end. At the moment everything seems ok, But who knows. We are really getting old and "time is not on our side".
And, of course, across these—my God!—six decades, you have got used to each other. The special thing about being part of a well-rehearsed group is knowing the others so well that you can predict up to a certain point what is going to happen next,” Richards says.
On Charlie Watts:“Charlie is a great English eccentric,” Richards said. “I mean, how else can you describe a guy who buys a 1936 Alfa Romeo just to look at the dashboard? Can’t drive, he never got the license,— just sits there and looks at it.” Bandmate Ronnie Wood once claimed that Watts also had bespoke suits made to match each of his cars, just to look period-appropriate while sitting in them and listening to the engines run."
“At the end of the show, he’ll leave the stage, and the sirens will be going, limousines waiting, and Charlie will walk back to his drum kit and change the position of his drumsticks by 2 millimeters. Then he’ll look at it. Then if it looks good, he’ll leave. He has this preoccupation with aesthetics, this vision of how things should be that nobody will ever know about except Charlie. The drums are about to be stripped down and put in the back of a truck, and he cannot leave if he’s got it in his mind that he’s left his sticks in a displeasing way. It’s so Zen.” (Keith Richards)
