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For fans of The Rolling Stones , Sticky Fingers is a classic among classics that continues to resonate. Believe it or not, the album was 500 days in the making. The wait was worth it. Upon its original release, Sticky Fingers was greeted with delight by fans and critics alike. As Rolling Stone magazine said, “It is the latest beautiful chapter in the continuing story of the greatest rock group in the world.” On May 8, 1971, it hit No.1 in the UK. Two weeks later, on May 22, 1971, the album deposed Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ’s live album 4 Way Street from the No.1 position on the Billboard album chart and then stayed there for the next month.

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Sticky Fingers is a perfect record: great music, an iconic album cover – and the story around its making has further added to its legend. Many classic Stones records were recorded in America, at both RCA’s studio in Hollywood, and at Chess Records in Chicago, but for Sticky Fingers the band chose a far less glamorous studio, one in the American South that only those in the know had heard of – Muscle Shoals Sound, in Sheffield, Alabama.

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Having finished their US tour in December 1969, the Stones flew to Muscle Shoals where they recorded three songs at the very heart of the album – “Brown Sugar,” “Wild Horses,” and “You Gotta Move.” The band then flew from Muscle Shoals to San Francisco, on December 5, and, 24 hours later, they played their infamous free concert at Altamont. Over the course of the next year, the band worked on more recordings at London’s Olympic Studios and at Mick’s country house, Stargroves, using the Stones’ Mobile Studio to capture the remainder of the tracks that make up the album.

But 1970 was not all about recording – far from it. There was a European tour and, behind the scenes, much was changing. The Stones had decided to leave Decca Records at the end of their contract period and looked to start their own label, to be funded by another record company. After much negotiation, the band decided to go with Ahmet Ertegun and Atlantic Records.

Forming their own label meant coming up with a name and an identity. The name was simple – Rolling Stones Records – but the identity and the logo took a little longer. Eventually, it was the now-famous “tongue and lips” logo was created, and has since become one of the most recognizable band logos in the world .

Given some of the issues that the band had faced with earlier album covers, they were determined to have one that looked the way they wanted it to, and so Mick and Charlie set about working with Andy Warhol to come up with a concept that the band loved. The original vinyl sleeve, with its fully working zip, is now one of the best-known album covers in the world; at the time, the New Musical Express was prompted to write, “Fame has spread from Mick Jagger’s lips to his zips.” It was all part of the single-mindedness with which the Stones went about getting Sticky Fingers just right.

By the time mixing was completed in early 1971, the band had two things on their collective mind: a short tour of the UK and a move to France; the tour to say farewell and the move necessitated by financial mismanagement over a long period that would have bankrupted the band had they stayed in Britain.

And so it was that, on April 16, 1971, “Brown Sugar” came out in the UK and, a week later, Sticky Fingers was unleashed upon the world.

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Rolling Stones Still Undecided on Playing ‘Sticky Fingers’ Live, Mick Taylor Won’t Join Them

Mick Jagger says the Rolling Stones haven't determined whether they will play Sticky Fingers in its entirety on this year's Zip Code tour. But he is certain about one thing: Mick Taylor , the second guitarist who made such an impact on the band's classic 1971 album, won't be joining the Stones on their upcoming 15-date trek.

This new tour was announced in conjunction with a sweeping reissue of Sticky Fingers , and there had already been conjecture that the Rolling Stones might play the complete album onstage. “It might work, and it might not,” Jagger recently told the WTF Podcast . “It’s got quite a few slow songs on it. Maybe it’ll work; you gotta see.”

Jagger did admit that the Rolling Stones intend to perform a few of the lesser-played favorites from the project, like "Sister Morphine," which has been absent from their playlists for a decade.

Taylor was a member of the Stones from 1969–74, a career-making era that also included Let It Bleed and Exile on Main St.  albums. He began a series of guest turns onstage with his old group in  November 2012 as part of the Stones' 50 and Counting world tour, and he appeared with them through last year on the 14 on Fire tour as well.

The Sticky Fingers expanded reissue , due on May 26, includes an additional disc of extras – including an acoustic version of "Wild Horses" – plus rare live performances from the period.

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Art of the Rolling Stones: Behind That Zipper and That Tongue

Craig Braun was the go-to designer of innovative album covers in the 1960s and ’70s. His work includes the original concept art of the working Andy Warhol zipper on the Rolling Stones’ album “Sticky Fingers.”

The original sketch of the Rolling Stones’ logo for the Licks memorabilia line, created by Mr. Braun, and a piece of merchandize attached, top right. 

The two stamps used to create the text on the album cover.

For a few years in the 1970s, Mr. Braun also licensed and designed a version of the Stones logo for a memorabilia line called Licks, which included jewelry and belt buckles. A cutout of Mr. Braun, which was used to advertise the line. Major chain stores wouldn't carry the then-controversial apparel and jewelry, so they were mostly featured in headshops.

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Mr. Braun with the “Sticky Fingers” album, which will be reissued Tuesday. The Rolling Stones are revisiting this 1971 album featuring hits like “Wild Horses” and “Brown Sugar” on their  “ZIP Code” tour.

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• June 7, 2015

As the Rolling Stones prepared recently to rerelease “Sticky Fingers,” their classic 1971 album featuring hits like “Wild Horses” and “Brown Sugar,” the manufacturing process hit a snag: The functional zipper from Andy Warhol’s bulging blue jean album cover, recreated for some new deluxe editions, was taking longer than expected to produce, Universal Music announced, pushing back the release to Tuesday.

They might have asked Craig Braun for help.

As the owner and creative director of the Sound Packaging Corporation, Mr. Braun became known in the ’60s and ’70s as the go-to inventor of elaborate album covers, making his name with projects like the peelable banana on the cover of 1967’s “The Velvet Underground & Nico,” another over-the-top phallic concept by Mr. Warhol.

Now, with the Stones’ revisiting “Sticky Fingers” on the aptly named “ZIP Code” tour, which takes them across North America through July 15, Mr. Braun is eager to share the story behind what VH1 called the best album cover ever. “Sticky Fingers” also included the debut of the Stones’ iconic lips and tongue logo, another piece of rock history with a tangled origin story — once again involving Mr. Braun.

“This album heralded an age of really imaginative and provocative packaging,” said the rock critic Richard Harrington, who is working on a book about controversial album art. “It also introduced the greatest band logo of all time.”

After “Let It Bleed” in 1969, the Stones split with their original label, Decca Records, and started their own, Rolling Stones Records. For the label’s first release, the band planned to pair edgy songs like “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” and “Sister Morphine” with an alluring visual statement. “They were the bad boys of rock ’n’ roll, expressing anger, lust and sex,” said Mr. Braun, now 75 and working as an actor.

While Mr. Braun and his team experimented with other playful concepts — including the oversize Bambu rolling paper cover later used by Cheech & Chong — Mick Jagger was set on Mr. Warhol’s zipper idea. And not only did the zipper have to work — it had to have something behind it.

“They knew if they put jeans and a working zipper that people were going to want to see what was back there,” Mr. Braun said. The reveal also served a practical purpose. “I knew the back of the zippers, which had to be glued down by hand, could damage the record,” he said. “So I decided to fold in a third panel.”

Mr. Braun called Warhol’s Factory looking for extra art. It came in the form of Polaroids from Warhol of a model in his tighty whities — photos that Mr. Braun still has, in their original envelope, at his Manhattan apartment today. (Commonly mistaken for Mr. Jagger, the “Sticky Fingers” underwear model as well as the cover star have remained a mystery; suspects include the Warhol Factory kids Joe Dallesandro, Jay Johnson and Corey Tippin.)

The zipper and underwear in place, Mr. Braun hit still more bumps. Even with a piece of protective cardboard separating each album, the first shipment of records arrived at retailers with some damage. Because of the weight of the stacked albums during transport, the zipper pull from one record was denting the vinyl on top of it, right on the grooves for “Sister Morphine,” the third track on the B-side.

Here, too, Mr. Braun finagled a solution. In the middle of a panicked night, “I got this idea that maybe, if the glue was dry enough, we could have the little old ladies at the end of the assembly line pull the zipper down far enough so that the round part would hit the center disc label,” he said. “It worked, and it was even better to see the zipper pulled halfway down.”

That wasn’t the only makeshift fix that would stick with the Stones. Back in London, John Pasche, a student at the Royal College of Art, worked on a logo for the band and its new label. Mr. Jagger had been inspired by the tongue of the Hindu goddess Kali, Mr. Pasche recalled, “but I didn’t want to do anything Indian, because I thought it would be very dated quickly, as everyone was going through that phase at the time.” Still, Kali’s mouth and lips “triggered something,” he said. (It didn’t hurt that Mr. Jagger had a recognizable mouth himself.)

In New York, Mr. Braun had a deadline and needed the logo. As the tongue design was still unfinished, he settled for a rough one-inch version, faxed over from London by Marshall Chess, the founding president of Rolling Stones Records. “I didn’t tell him what I was going to do with it,” Mr. Braun said.

His in-house illustrators finished the mouth — narrowing the tongue, adding more white accents and a black void for the throat — before blowing it up to cover the entire inside sleeve of the American release (Mr. Pasche’s version was used internationally).

“I thought it was going to get me into trouble,” Mr. Braun said. Instead, his touches on the logo, which still shifts slightly in size and color for different events, often persist to this day, including on the official ads for the “ZIP Code” tour and countless pieces of Stones memorabilia.

Mr. Pasche barely noticed. “It was a relaxed affair,” he said. “I just think things were happening fast and needed to be done, so it was redrawn.”

Mr. Chess, meanwhile, only found out about Mr. Braun’s revisions 45 years later. “He was so nervous about it!” said Mr. Chess, 73.

Both Mr. Braun and Mr. Pasche are pleased with the results of their overlapping contributions to rock mythology. Initially paid just 50 pounds ($76 at current rates) for the design, Mr. Pasche sold his copyright to the band for £26,000 (about $40,000 at the time) in 1984. In 2008, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London bought his original artwork for £50,000 ($92,500).

Mr. Braun estimates that he made six figures creating the “Sticky Fingers” packaging. For a few years in the ’70s, he also licensed and designed an alternate version of the Stones logo for a memorabilia line called Licks, which included jewelry, belt buckles and pins, paying the band only a small royalty.

Licks was a modest success, but probably ahead of its time. “The merchandising for the Rolling Stones is in the billions now,” Mr. Braun said. “I should have stayed in the business.”

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Stones highlight 'Sticky Fingers' on tour

The Rolling Stones' decision to play every song from Sticky Fingers during a pre-tour warm-up show at Los Angeles' Fonda Theatre in May came at the last minute.

"We'd never done anything like that before," says guitarist Keith Richards, 71. "But after listening to the rehearsals, we said we could do it and we should do it. Hopefully, somewhere down the line we can do it again."

The Stones reissue the 1971 album Tuesday, including previously unreleased takes of songs such as Brown Sugar and Wild Horses , along with live recordings made around the time of its initial release.

The name of the band's Zip Code Tour, which continues Tuesday at Atlanta's Bobby Dodd Stadium, refers to the album's iconic Andy Warhol-designed cover, a close-up black-and-white photograph of a man's jeans. Original pressings of the album jacket had a functional zipper.

During the tour, the Stones have been using Brown Sugar as a set-closer, highlighting other songs from the album, like Bitch , Wild Horses , Can't You Hear Me Knocking and the rarely played Moonlight Mile earlier in the show. "We're going to be highlighting Sticky Fingers more than we usually do," Richards says. "We're having fun playing it, so why not?"

Richards says he hopes to bring Sister Morphine , another live rarity, into the set list . "Playing it in rehearsals and at the Fonda Theatre, it's a very powerful sound; Ronnie Wood's playing some great slide," he says. "Maybe because we haven't done it for so long it kind of felt fresh — if morphine can be fresh."

Perhaps the most exciting part of the Sticky Fingers reissue is the appearance of an alternate version of Brown Sugar featuring Eric Clapton on slide guitar. The recording was made two weeks after the original, at the 27 th birthday party for Richards and Stones sideman Bobby Keys. "Eric happened to be around," says Richards, who had forgotten a tape of the performance even existed. "It was kind of like that in those days. If somebody was handy, you roped them in."

The album also includes alternate takes of Wild Horses , Bitch , Dead Flowers and Can't You Hear Me Knocking .

Sticky Fingers was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, one of four Stones albums on the list.

"To say that at the album is a classic is a vast understatement," says Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis. "It's not simply one of the greatest albums of the rock era, it epitomizes everything that rock and roll is about. It rocks as hard and unsettles as fully today as the day it came out."

Richards says he has enjoyed rediscovering Sticky Fingers and the additional archival recordings and he expects the band's fans will too: "I had totally forgotten about half of the tracks. It was as fun for me to listen to them as anybody else."

The Stones “Sticky Finger” Tour

The Rolling Stones ’ seminal Sticky Fingers album is celebrating its 50th anniversary (yikes!) in April / July 2021 and to celebrate, a quartet of Aussie rock royalty will be bringing the album to back to life with shows in the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Melbourne, Newcastle and Sydney.

 Sharing the stage for the party will be four of the best lead vocalists in Aussie music – Magic Dirt’s Adalita , Grinspoon’s Phil Jamieson , The Cruel Sea’s Tex Perkins and You Am I’s Tim Rogers. This sensational quartet will perform the Sticky Fingers album in full as well as some of The Stones’ greatest hits in a COVIDSafe, rock ‘n roll celebration.

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Top 10 Songs the Stones Aren’t Playing on Their 2024 Tour

W hen the Rolling Stones consider their set list, some tough decisions have to be made. Of their 400-plus songs, only a handful will make the cut.

As the Stones make their way across North America on their Hackney Diamonds Tour , they’ve been sticking to a pretty consistent set of 18-19 songs, though there have been a few curveballs and tour debuts thrown in. For one thing, there’s new material to be played from the band’s 2023 album Hackney Diamonds . There’s also the Stones’ regular strategy of allowing their audiences one fan-voted song.

READ MORE: How Have the Rolling Stones’ Set Lists Changed Over 60 Years?

The reality is that some beloved classics have taken a back seat on this tour. There’s still time for them — the 2024 tour doesn’t end until July 21 — but in the meantime, we’re taking a look at the top 10 songs the Rolling Stones have not played.

1. “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking”

From: Sticky Fingers (1971)

This list will start off strong with the seven plus minute “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” from 1971’s Sticky Fingers . The Stones had been including this song in their sets quite routinely through the 2000s, with its last appearance being on July 7, 2022 during their Sixty anniversary concert tour. But so far in 2024, we haven’t heard them knocking with this one.

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2. “Street Fighting Man”

From: Beggars Banquet (1968)

“Street Fighting Man” may be the most surprising exclusion on this list considering it’s presently the Stones’ 13th most played song of their career (via setlist.fm ) with over 600 performances since its release in 1968. The last time the band played it was in August of 2022 in Germany. “Street Fighting Man” was once shunned by U.S. radio stations for its dissident lyrics — ironic, then, that decades later it’s the Stones keeping the song from North American audiences.

3. “Before They Make Me Run”

From: Some Girls (1978)

To be fair, the 2024 tour already has a handful of moments — “Tell Me Straight” from Hackney Diamonds , “Little T&A” and “Happy” — for Keith Richards to sing lead. But one famously Richards-sung number that hasn’t been played is “Before They Make Me Run” from 1978’s Some Girls , which last appeared in a set list during the Stones’ 2021 No Filter Tour .

From: Goats Head Soup (1973)

One thing that’s important to consider when crafting a set list is the balance between high-energy numbers and slower ballads. But on this 2024 tour, the Stones appear to be prioritizing the former and not including very many of the latter. If they decide to change that, one popular option could be “Angie” — the Stones’ 21st most played song — which hasn’t been played since the 2022 tour.

5. “Ruby Tuesday”

From: Between the Buttons (1967)

Goodbye “Ruby Tuesday,” we haven’t heard you live since 2022. To make up for that, the Stones have played a few other songs from their earlier years, like “She’s a Rainbow,” “Out of Time” and, from the same album as “Ruby Tuesday, “Let’s Spend the Night Together.”

6. “Live With Me”

From: Let It Bleed (1969)

For a while in the 2000s, “Live With Me” from 1969’s Let It Bleed was a pretty regular inclusion on the Stones’ set list, making many appearances during their 2002-2003 Licks Tour and their 2005-2007 A Bigger Bang Tour. Then it started to fall away, and its most recent play was at the band’s 2016 Desert Trip concert.

7. “Rip This Joint”

From: Exile on Main St. (1972)

“Rip This Joint” is a bit of a longer shot in terms of potential for inclusion on the 2024 tour, mainly because it’s been over two decades since the Stones played it last in 2003. Also, it would have been a good choice for their New Orleans show with its lyric about the Dixie Queen, but so far, it’s stayed on the back burner.

8. “19th Nervous Breakdown”

From: 1966 Single

During the Stones’ 2021 No Filter Tour and their 2022 Sixty Tour, “19th Nervous Breakdown” was on practically every set list. And before that, it was played heavily during their 1997-98 Bridges to Babylon Tour. But it appears to have been dropped for this trek in favor of other songs…

9. “Waiting on a Friend”

From: Tattoo You (1981)

“Waiting on a Friend” from 1981’s Tattoo You presents a similar problem to the one “Angie” does: inserting a slower number into a set jam-packed with energy. This one has not been heard live since a 2014 concert in Berlin, Germany, so it’s been a full decade. For those Tattoo You lovers, the 2024 set does still include “Start Me Up” and “Little T&A.”

10. “Fool to Cry”

From: Black and Blue (1976)

Not to keep pushing the ballads, but “Fool to Cry” could make an excellent addition to the set list with its easy-to-sing-along-to chorus. This song was played exactly once on both the 2021 and 2022 tours, why not play it once in 2024?

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All-Star Rolling Stones Tribute Band Announce Tour Homaging ‘Sticky Fingers’

The unholy union of Adalita, Phil Jamieson, Tex Perkins and Tim Rogers will also perform a whole ‘nother set of Stones classics.

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The Rolling Stones Revue – an all-star tribute band comprising Aussie legends Adalita ( Magic Dirt ), Phil Jamieson ( Grinspoon ), Tex Perkins and Tim Rogers ( You Am I , The Hard-Ons , about 600 other iconic bands) – have announced an eight-date tour to pay homage to the classic 1971 album Sticky Fingers .

The ultimate Stones celebration will see the band play two sets every night, first rolling through Sticky Fingers in its entirety, then smashing out a full suite of other hits from the Rolling Stones sprawling discography. Highlights noted in a press release included Satisfaction , Jumping Jack Flash , Gimme Shelter , Start Me Up , Honky Tonk Woman and Sympathy For The Devil .

The tour will begin at Anita’s Theatre in Thirroul on Saturday June 29, followed by an appearance at the Big Red Bash in Birdsville, Queensland on Wednesday July 3 (though it should be noted Adalita will be sitting this one out). From there, the band will hit stages in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney and Newcastle. To wrap it all up, The Rolling Stones Revue will perform at the Mundi Mundi Bash in Broken Hill on Friday August 16.

Tickets to all of the headline shows go on sale at 10am local time next Tuesday (March 12), following a presale that kicks off at the same time this Friday. You can access the presale by signing up to the band’s database , or bookmark this link for the general sale. Otherwise, tickets for both the Big Red Bash and Mundi Mundi Bash can be found here .

In a press statement, Adalita said of the upcoming tour: “I’m so thrilled to once again be joining my good mates to celebrate this incredibly iconic band I cannot wait to get my teeth into this one, it’s going to be an amazing show!”

Rogers shared the sentiment, albeit in his own unique fashion: “Them bloody longhaired Rolled Stones have ruined it for all us good hearted folks with morals and underwear. What can a tender boy do, huh? Can’t beat ‘em, gonna join ‘em. This malarkey happening again. Shadoobie.”

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Also worth noting is that for these shows, The Rolling Stones Revue will be joined by a star-studded backing band comprised of guitarists Jak Housden ( The Whitlams , The Badloves ) and James Christowski , bassist Dario Bortolin ( Baby Animals ), drummer Gordon Rytmeister ( Glenn Shorrock , Hamilton ), keyboardist Rob Woolfe ( Ian Moss ), and saxophonist Winston Smith .

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11 surprise songs we'd like to see the Rolling Stones pull out at Browns Stadium

• Updated: Jun. 14, 2024, 1:59 p.m. |
• Published: Jun. 11, 2024, 9:56 a.m.

The Rolling Stones perform Saturday, June 15, at Browns Stadium -- the group's first Cleveland appearance since 2002 (Photo courtesy Geffen Records) Geffen Records

• Gary Graff, special to cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- At this point, we can rest assured we’re going to hear the Rolling Stones play certain songs when they go on tour -- “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” for instance, or “Tumbling Dice,” “Miss You,” “Start Me Up,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (the last song the group played in Cleveland, back on Oct. 14, 2002) and other staples.

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It’s the surprise songs that really make a Stones show a gas, gas, gas.

The venerable group has been offering quite a bit of those on its Hackney Diamonds Tour, which kicked off April 28 in Houston and arrives at Cleveland Browns Stadium -- the Stones’ first Cleveland appearance in a dozen years -- on Saturday. Each show has had at least a couple of tour debuts, one often decided by an online fan vote and the others thrown into the mix to shake up the usual setlist, at least a little.

Some of the band choices so far have included performances of “Emotional Rescue,” “Midnight Rambler,” “She’s So Cold,” “Time is On My Wide,” “Out of Time” (for the first time ever in the U.S.), “Beast of Burden” and the Keith Richards-sung favorites “Happy and “Little T&A.” Voting is currently taking place for fans to make their mark on the Cleveland show, and there’s no telling what special selection Richards, Mick Jagger, Ron Wood and company may pull out of the catalog.

There’s no way to tell, of course, but you can certainly find predictions and even wagers out there. Us? We’re not putting any money down but we certainly have a wish list, and we’d be delighted with a special inclusion of any of these 11 from the Stones songbook...

“Not Fade Away:” How about a throwback to the group’s first Cleveland appearance, for “The Mike Douglas Show” on June 18, 1964? This Buddy Holly cover gave the Stones its first appearance on the Billboard charts (at No. 48) and was its first Top 5 single in the U.K. It would be a nice trip through the past, and not darkly, almost 60 years to the day.

“Carol:” Another one from the “The Mike Douglas Show,” this one a Chuck Berry cover that came out as a single 60 years ago this month.

“Time is On My Side:” Though not written by Jagger and Richards, this Jerry Ragavoy tune -- first recorded by Kai Winding, then Irma Thomas, whose version the Stones’ heard -- could well be considered ABOUT the Stones at this point. Sixty-two years and counting, time is more their friend than their enemy, making this a particularly poignant candidate for performance.

“Street Fighting Man:” The 1968 counterculture anthem opened the Stones’ last Cleveland appearance, on Oct. 14, 2002 at Gund Arena. Another opportunity to touch on the group’s history here.

“Can’t You Hear Me Knocking:” The ultimate jam from 1971′s “Sticky Fingers” album always goes down a storm on stage, with plenty of room for Wood, Richards and the current saxophonist (Karl Denson and Tim Ries this time out) to stretch out and give Jagger a few minutes to rest those still-spry hips.

“All Down the Line:” “Exile on Main Street” is too good, and important, of an album to be represented by just one song (“Tumbling Dice”) in the setlist. Any number of additional tracks from the set could work, but you can be confident this would keep the energy level high.

“Respectable:” “When the Whip Comes Down” would also be a nice rarity from the “Some Girls” album, but it’s been a long time since this rocker’s been aired out. It would definitely be a stadium-shaker.

“Waiting On a Friend:” The Top 20 hit from “Tattoo You” -- originally from “Goats Head Soup” sessions in Jamaica and finally released in 1981 -- was a change of pace for the Stones and would be the same in concert. It would be especially nice to hear what Karl Denson or Tim Ries would do with the saxophone solo.

“I Go Wild:” A semi-deep cut (it was a single) from 1994′s “Voodoo Lounge” went over very well when it was performed in concerts that year. It would be a curve ball, but a good one.

“Rough Justice:” “A Bigger Bang,” the Stones’ last studio album of original material prior to “Hackney Diamonds,” has undeservedly disappeared from the group’s legacy. This, its opening track and first single, boasts the kind of guitar-drenched drive we love best about the Stones, while the relationship described in the lyrics could be about a lover or the volatile Jagger-Richards axis.

“Bite My Head Off:” “Hackney Diamonds” is certainly getting its due on the tour named after it, but we’d still love to hear what the Stones could do on stage with this rocker that’s even angrier than the first single, “Angry.”

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Watch Rolling Stones Play ‘Sticky Fingers’ at Intimate L.A. Show

• By Kory Grow

UPDATE: The Rolling Stones have released  official audio  of their intimate Fonda Theatre show last month. The show was the first time the band played their landmark album Sticky Fingers in its entirety.

The Rolling Stones previewed their upcoming Zip Code tour with a surprise concert Wednesday night at L.A.’s tiny Fonda Theatre, where they played their classic 1971 album Sticky Fingers in its entirety for the first time ever. The group is reissuing that record in a variety of formats, including rarities-packed deluxe box sets, next month. Wednesday’s gig marked the first time the band played deep cut “You Gotta Move” in close to four decades, along with other rarely performed Sticky Fingers tunes “Sister Morphine” and “I Got the Blues.” The group will kick off the tour officially on May 24th in San Diego.

Video from the concert shows the band playing the album’s “Brown Sugar” and “Moonlight Mile,” the latter of which features Mick Jagger on guitar, as well as some of the famous faces in the audience. Jack Nicholson, Harry Styles, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Willis, Patricia Arquette, Eric Idle, Don Was and Joe Pesci were all in attendance.

Earlier this year, Jagger told Rolling Stone he had mixed emotions about playing Sticky Fingers in full. “ Sticky Fingers has, like, five slow songs…. I just don’t know how it would work,” he said. “Maybe we’d play it and everyone would say, ‘Great.’ But maybe they’ll get restless and start going to get drinks.”

Beyond Sticky Fingers , the band played hits (“Start Me Up,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”), fan favorites (“All Down the Line,” “When the Whip Comes Down”) and some covers, the most notable of which was B.B. King’s “Rock Me Baby.”

Jagger recently mourned the loss of King, who died earlier this month , in a Twitter Q&A with fans. “It’s sad,” he wrote. “He had such a huge, long career. It’s sad that we won’t be listening to him live anymore.”

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“Start Me Up” “When the Whip Comes Down” “All Down the Line” “Sway” “Dead Flowers” “Wild Horses” “Sister Morphine” “You Gotta Move” “Bitch” “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin'” “I Got the Blues” “Moonlight Mile” “Brown Sugar”

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Mick is headed to the Mile High City.

On Thursday, June 20, The Rolling Stones are dropping into the Bronco’s Empower Field at Mile High for just one night as part of their ongoing AARP-sponsored ‘’24 Hackney Diamonds’ tour.

As is par for the course on this tour, the Stones will be joined by a unique opening act. At this show, it’s beloved, bluesy jam band Widespread Panic .

The other moving part of the tour is the surprise song the band has fans vote on before the show. Past tracks to make the cut at shows on this run include fan favorites “She’s A Rainbow,” “Heartbreaker,” “Sweet Virginia,” “Emotional Rescue,” and “Wild Horses” among others.

At the time of publication, the Rock Hall of Famers is yet to announce what tracks will be voted on for the Denver show.

However, if you want to score last-minute tickets, it isn’t too late.

Based on our findings, the lowest price we could find on tickets for the June 20 gig was $122 before fees on Vivid Seats at the time of publication.

Floor seats start at $274 before fees .

While that may sound pricey, hearing “Gimme Shelter” live “is worth the price of admission alone,” according to the New York Post’s review of their May 26 MetLife Stadium concert.

Still looking for a few more details before buying?

We’ve got everything you need to know and more about the Rolling Stones June 20 concert at Empower Stadium below.

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Rolling Stones 2024 tour schedule

After the brief New Jersey stay, Mick, Keith, and co. have 12 more stadium concerts on their 2024 tour calendar.

For a closer look, here’s where they’re headed next (along with the special guests they’re bringing along):

The Rolling Stones set list

The Stones performed at Glendale, AZ’s State Farm Stadium on May 7.

Here’s what they took to the stage that night, according to  Set List FM :

01.) “Start Me Up” 02.) “It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (but I Like It)” 03.) “She’s So Cold” 04.) “Angry” 05.) “Beast of Burden” 06.) “Monkey Man” 07.) “Mess It Up” 08.) “Tumbling Dice”

09.) “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” 10.) “Little T&A” 11.) “Sympathy for the Devil” 12.) “Honky Tonk Women” 13.) “Miss You” 14.) “Gimme Shelter” 15.) “Paint It Black” 16.) “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”

17.) “Sweet Sounds of Heaven” 18.) “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

The Rolling Stones new music

On Oct. 20, the Stones released their 26th American studio album,  “Hackney Diamonds,”  featuring special guests Paul McCartney, Elton John, Lady Gaga and Stevie Wonder.

Comprised of 12 hard-rocking tracks that wouldn’t be out of place alongside their singalong stadium anthems of yore, “Diamonds” shows that Mick, Keith, and Ronnie still have their sticky fingers on rock and roll’s pulse.

“We wouldn’t have put this album out if we didn’t really like it,” Jagger, 80, told Jimmy Fallon. “We must say that we are quite pleased with it. We’re not big-headed but we hope you like it.”

If you’re looking to sample the record, we suggest starting with the fierce lead track “Angry” and the wistful ballad “Dreamy Skies.”

Prefer to listen in full? You can find “Hackney Diamonds”  here .

The Rolling Stones band members

No joke — the upcoming tour is sponsored by AARP.

Rather than shy away from their age, the legendary rockers are embracing their elder statesman status.

To give you a peek at who’s in the group these days, take a look below.

Mick Jagger   (80 years old)   lead and backing vocals, harmonica, rhythm guitar, percussion, keyboards, bass guitar  (1962–present)

Keith Richards   (80 years old)   rhythm and lead guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, percussion, backing and lead vocals  (1962–present)

Ronnie Wood   (76 years old)   lead and rhythm guitars, bass guitar, backing vocals, pedal steel guitar  (1975–present)

Backing musicians include Chuck Leavell, Bernard Fowler, Matt Clifford, Darryl Jones, Tim Ries, Karl Denson, Chanelle Haynes, and Steve Jordan.

Their longtime drummer Charlie Watts passed away in August 2021.

Widespread Panic

As noted above, the Stones are bringing along different special guests with them at each gig.

This time, it’s John Bell and Widespread Panic . If you’re not familiar with the band’s bluesy, Southern rock, we recommend starting with the soulful “Up All Night,” twangy “Ain’t Life Grand” and laid-back “Pickin’ Up The Pieces” to sample their sound .

Want to see them headline live? You’re in luck- they’re striking out on a tour of their own this year as will.

Tickets for all 2024 Widespread Panic concerts can be found here .

Classic rockers on tour in 2024

Many AARP card-carrying icons will take the stage this year and next.

Here are just five of our favorite acts you won’t want to miss live in the near future.

•  Bob Dylan with Robert Plant and Willie Nelson

•  Electric Light Orchestra

•  Ringo Starr

•  Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues

•  Heart with Cheap Trick

Need more ’60s and ’70s hitmakers in your life? Check out our list of the  52 biggest classic rockers on tour in 2024  to find the show for you.

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World Series of Rock: 50 Years Later: Rolling Stones

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During their 50-plus year career, The Rolling Stones have married their love of blues and American R&B with a vast array of styles and genres: disco, garage, psychedelic rock and even punk.

The constant through line, however, has been the band's swagger-thanks first and foremost to the Glimmer Twins, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. More on rockhall.com ...

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• ARC-0001 Art Collins Papers Series III and IV of this collection contain correspondence and audiovisual materials documenting the Stones during Collins' time as an executive at Rolling Stones Records and beyond, as Collins followed their career.
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Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

Belfry and Neighbouring Churches

Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

Tsaritsa's Chambers

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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The highs, lows and TV magic of ‘Antiques Roadshow’

We went behind the scenes — and the appraisals — when the hit PBS show taped in Baltimore this week.

The heat dome did not deter the long line of people outside the Maryland Zoo on Tuesday. They hauled duffel bags and dollies, totes and bubble-wrapped packages — all containing treasures whose secrets they hoped to learn.

“Antiques Roadshow” had arrived in Baltimore, the final destination in its five-city 2024 tour . The beloved show has been on the PBS airwaves for nearly three decades, deriving success from a deceptively simple concept: People bring their old stuff and appraisers tell them about it on camera. “Antiques Roadshow” is easy to watch while folding laundry or scrolling your phone, yet it somehow brings forth a symphony of human emotion: the disappointment of learning you were swindled, the delight of discovering an object gathering dust is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, the connection to an ancestor you’ve never met through an item you both touched.

A man named Javance, shielding himself with an umbrella from the blazing sun, rented a truck to bring an 8.5-foot-wide painting of a dollar bill that he bought at Goodwill for $17. He’s tried to learn more about it over the years, to no avail. “It’s been hanging on my wall in my living room for eight years and it’s time to see who the artist may be and if there’s any value,” he says. (“Antiques Roadshow” only permits the media to use guests’ first names.)

Shannon, who has her 5-month-old strapped to her chest, introduced her husband Tommy to the show when they started dating — she has been watching since she was 8 years old. “He was like, at first, ‘What is this?’ but now it’s very soothing,” she says. Tommy, who is pushing their 2-year-old in a stroller, agrees: “It helps us decompress.”

They scrambled around the house at the last minute, looking for items to have appraised. Though Shannon says the things they brought turned out to be “pretty worthless,” the couple was mostly there for the experience anyway.

Plus, everyone at the zoo on the sweltering day of filming had already gotten lucky: only about a fifth of the 10,000 people who applied for tickets got them. Each ticket allowed two people to enter with two items apiece for appraisal.

As a member of the press, I, too, was allowed to bring a pair of items for appraisal (and I got to cut the line). I brought a large linen sheet that my mother-in-law found last year while cleaning out her own mother-in-law’s house; it was allegedly woven in 1793. For my second piece, I selected a starburst ring that was once my great-grandmother’s. In the case of the sheet, I wanted to know if it really was from 1793, as the date stitched onto it claimed; how to best maintain it; and its value. I had a feeling that the ring wouldn’t be worth a lot of money, but I was hungry to learn a little more about my grandmother’s mother, who died when I was a toddler.

When it’s my turn to meet with an appraiser, I am thrumming with anticipation.

As media, I won’t actually be on the show, nor will most of the members of the public who attended the Baltimore taping. At each stop on the tour, the creators gather enough footage for just three episodes — roughly 25 guests appear on each one — along with content for the show’s social media platforms.

The line outside the zoo first funneled attendees to the “triage” tent. This is where your wares get categorized into one of two dozen different appraisal specialties, including books and manuscripts, ancient art, and arms and militaria. From there, you proceed to your assigned tent and wait for your turn with an appraiser.

That was the final stop for most of us. Only a very select few ever make it onto one of the multicamera television sets peppered throughout the zoo’s enclosures containing birds of prey. The people who get filmed are chosen by “pickers,” including executive producer Marsha Bemko, who get intel from the appraisers about which cases seem like TV material.

“What gets you onto ‘Roadshow’? You’ve got a good story, let’s start there,” says Bemko. “Story is king.” It helps, of course, if your item turns out to be worth a lot, or if there’s a big chasm between what you paid and how much it would sell for at auction. And the appraiser has to be able to tell the owner new information, even in the age of online research.

One person Bemko picks for filming in Baltimore is a descendant of a Delaware governor who brought a silver pitcher, and had a sense it might be valuable. “He thinks he knows things and he does know a lot,” she says. “But we know a little bit more and we’ll tell him.”

Despite the oppressive heat, the crowd at the roadshow buzzes with excitement. Perhaps it’s the incredibly high ratio of oddities per minute in your sightline. There’s something especially pleasing about knowing that people are toting around objects of significance or curiosity to them, like a life-size sculpture of a naked woman collaged with patterned paper, or a collection of comics that rarely get fresh air.

Now in her 25th year with the show, Bemko has seen trends come and go. Victorian furniture pieces that once sold for thousands now might appraise for $500. Even some of the categories over at the triage tent have adjusted over time, which she says reflects “changing tastes with the changing demographic.”

That’s why Pokémon cards and other trappings of ’90s childhoods have recently made their way onto the show. “My official job now is just to make millennials feel old,” says Travis Landry, director of pop culture for Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers. “People always want to collect what they have or what they can remember having.” He’s been an appraiser for the show for eight years, since he was 20, and grew up watching it.

When filming in Arizona, a woman plopped down a binder filled with Magic: The Gathering cards, including ones he immediately recognized as extremely rare. “Those genuine reactions of when people have no clue, and then you get to tell them they have $100,000 worth of trading cards, [that’s] the best,” he says. (Those cards have at least doubled, and potentially tripled, in value since the appraisal.)

Alas, I wasn’t fated to have quite that dramatic of an experience. Martina D’Amato, the managing director of fashion and textile gallery Cora Ginsburg LLC, looks over my antique linen textile, running her fingers over the weave. She says it’s “totally plausible” that the linen was indeed woven and stitched in 1793. “It’s just hard to say more than possibly or probably,” she says, though she is confident it was made before the industrial revolution because early linen “has a really special feel to it. There’s nothing quite like it … It’s very heavy, and linens today feel like cheesecloth.”

D’Amato puts the value of the textile at anywhere between $200 and $500 because “it’s a really yummy linen and it has a lot of potential for use and collectibility … [but] it’s not like something I haven’t seen before.”

Onto the jewelry tent, where Sarah Churgin, owner of Acquisitions Fine Jewelry and Antiques, uses a handheld magnifier to inspect my great-grandmother’s ring. “What we have here is a silver ring in a very high fashion style,” she says. She describes the shape as Sputnik-inspired and the style as brutalist. “It’s rough, textural, like Paul Evans furniture.”

In trying to sum up what this might say about my great-grandmother, she says, “She wasn’t the timid sort, was she?”

When I ask what it’s worth, Churgin offers that its real value is its family association. It’s missing some of its stones, she notes, but “it’s priceless to you.”

Yes, yes, of course. But how much money is it worth?

“It’s within $20, based on the condition.”

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