Despite the wrinkles Rolling Stones, time seems that it does not pass for Their Satanic Majesties, who returned in top form to London's Hyde Park to repeat on this same stage their legendary concert of more than four decades ago. Forty-four years and a day later, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards returned to lead the British band before tens of thousands of fans, accompanied by two other historical "stones" such as Ron Wood and Charlie Watts. That July 5, 1969, Jagger jumped on stage dressed in white and reciting a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley in honor of his guitarist Brian Jones, who had died only two days earlier and for which the singer released thousands of butterflies to the London sky. . Now, Mick, who will turn 70 in three weeks, wore a leather jacket designed by his current partner, L'Wren Scott, which had a butterfly stamped on it, another wink for Jones, and without a word he launched into the first chords from "Start me up" (1981).
The perfect start to a night that had preceded a hot day in this London park, where other groups and artists such as The Vaccines, The Temper Trap, Gary Clark, Jr. or King Charles whetted the festive appetite. And so it kicked off nearly two hours of heavy rock & roll and nostalgia, with Jagger asking "How are you?" before attacking the second theme of the repertoire, another hymn like "It's Only Rock And Roll (But I Like It)" (1974).
“A big hello to London, England and Hyde Park! Was anyone here in 1969? " inquired Jagger, ready for "Tumbling Dice" (1972), the dice of luck (and talent) that has made the Rollings an enduring global brand. They had to pass "Bitch" (1971), which they performed with Gary Clark Jr., and "Paint it Black" (1966) until finally a song from the first "Stones in the Park" sounded and it could not be other than "Honky Tonk Women »(1969).
Hello London! I already told you that we would return ", said Jagger as if to excuse the delay before the most nostalgic of that night 44 years ago. But it took three more songs, "You Got the Silver" (1969), "Before The Make Me Run" (1978) and "Miss You" (1978), to get back into the time machine.
From this came the guitarist Mick Taylor, whose first concert with the Stones was none other than that of Hyde Park, when he had the difficult and delicate ballot to replace the late Jones.
"We just met him in a pub and we just put him in front of 200.000 people",
joked Jagger, who, on harmonica, played "Midnight Rambler (1969) with him."
With the family almost complete, the Stones completed a historic night with "Gimme Shelter" (1969), "Jupmin 'Jack Flash" (1968), "Sympathy For the Devil" (1968) and Brown Sugar (1971). And to show he's in shape, they even scored a couple of encores with "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (1969) and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (1965)
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