According to the Sun, the UK tabloid, the Rolling Stones are setting up a final worldwide Stadium tour with Live Nation for 2011, and will call it a career after over 50 years of performance. “They’re likely to perform in stadiums. It’s almost certainly the last full-scale world tour. The band realise that age is creeping up on them. They want to bow out on top of their game, and not short-change fans.”
I don’t believe them.
1. I think Jagger is incapable of leaving $250 Million on the table in 4 years.
2. Jagger will be 68 years old when he tours in 2011, 72 if he tours again four years later, 76 after that.Jaggers father died in 2006 at the age of 93. I don’t see what Jagger can’t do it when he is 80 years old.
3. That is if Keith Richards is still. With all due respect to Charlie Watts, at this point of the game, as Bill Wyman leaving proved, all you need is the Glimmer Twins.
4. I know 80 sounds awful old but it aint. At 84, Jagger and Richards could, ahem, resuurect themselves as more intimate, more musical band. The money will be less but the sound should be wonderful. Wouldn’t you pay to see the Stones at Radio City Music Hall. Even at 84 years old? An instant sell out.
5. The blues greats played all their lives, because they were ripped off all their money, sure, but that’s not the point. The Stones can’t retire because the Stones is what the Stones does.
So
6. Get ready for the great return in 2016.