Charlie Watts has expressed his hopes for a Rolling Stones tour this year as the legendary band prepares to celebrate its 50th year.
Guitarist Keith Richards has to date been the main source of encouragement for fans hoping for movement in the Stones camp this year, and invited all of his surviving bandmates to rehearsals late last year.
And now Charlie Watts has backed up Richards’ call for new tour dates in 2012, telling BBC 6Music: “It would be lovely next year to do some shows because it will be fifty years. Ronnie plays, I still play, Mick sings, he can do it anyway, I think Keith is doing some records.”
“Anyway it would be great if we did, we are just getting to an age where it’s getting a bit difficult to get it together and it’s such a bloody performance getting us together.”
The Rolling Stones were last in significant action back in 2007 when their two-year long Bigger Bang world jaunt became at the time the highest grossing tour in history.