Without Charlie Watts, who died in August and replaced on drums by Steve Jordan, the septuagenarians Mick Jagger (78 years old), Keith Richards (78) and Ronnie Wood (who turns 75 this Wednesday) arrived in Madrid last Thursday and have enjoyed the capital ever since.
“Sympathy for the devil in Madrid… The Stones are in the city!”, The group published on its Instagram account accompanying a photo of the monument to the fallen angel in Madrid’s Retiro Park, alluding to its famous theme Sympathy for the Devil.
“Enjoying a lot of what Madrid offers, from fallen angels to flamenco!” Jagger wrote on Twitter, along with some photos drinking beer, in the Retiro or in front of Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” painting.
Total, thirteen European cities will receive the Stones. After Madrid, the band will play in Munich, and then in Liverpool, at the Anfield stadium. A special concert, since the Rolling bands haven’t played in the city where The Beatles were born for more than 50 years.
Amsterdam, Bern, Milan, London (two concerts), Brussels, Vienna, Lyon, Paris, the German city of Gelsenkirchen and finally Stockholm (July 31) will be the stages of this tour.
In addition to celebrating his 60th birthday, the Rolling celebrate in 2022 the 50th anniversary of one of their iconic albums, Exile on Main Street.
Jagger and Richards were childhood friends but fell out of touch, until a chance reunion at Dartford railway station in 1961, outside London, remembered today with a plaque at the site.
A year later they debuted in London, and two years later, in 1963, they released their first songstarting a career with more than 50 albums, between studio and live recordings, millions of copies sold, and a long list of classic rock songs that are not lacking in their concerts, such as Satisfaction, ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash, start me upeither brownsugar.