MICK Jagger and Keith Richards may both be 74 and Charlie Watts 76 (Ronnie Wood is a mere stripling at 70), but the Rolling Stones are still one of the biggest live rock acts in the world. They bring their latest tour, No Filter, to Edinburgh’s Murrayfield stadium on Saturday, June 9.
In late May 1982 they played the Glasgow Apollo, the second of three Scottish dates. Hundreds of fans queued outside the venue hoping to buy tickets from touts, it was reported. Briefs with a face value of £6.50 were going for a minimum of £65.
In his review, the Glasgow Herald’s Iain Gray said the Stones’ opening song, Under My Thumb, set the theme for the rest of the concert. Though the acoustics reminded one “of listening to early Rolling Stones records on a Dansette record player”, the energy generated on the stage “was more than enough to feed the nostalgia of the fans ...”
The band - Bill Wyman, on bass guitar, was still a Rolling Stone back then - had to call in the help of two saxophonists and two keyboard players to bring their stage act into the 1980s, the review added. “It may be indicative of the state in which the Rolling Stones, like many other bands formed in the early 60s, now find themselves. Nostalgia was the name of the game when Jagger announced, ‘We’re gonna do some old rockers from the fifties’. This drew the biggest response.”
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