Mick Jagger: at 69 performing can get tough


Mick Jagger

The last time many parts of the world had a chance to see The Rolling Stones on the road was during their global ‘A Bigger Bang‘ tour which wrapped in 2007. Six years later they’ll kick off their 50 and Counting tour in Los Angeles and the now 69 year young front man Mick Jagger admits that he’s getting older and that performing can be tough.

“I just have to train a lot and keep really fit. I want to do these moves, but I can’t do them because if I did, I’d probably screw up,” Jagger said, laughing. “You just got to do what’s within your capabilities. I don’t want it to look wrong, so I’m going to stay within my boundaries.”

Mick told the Independent: “Normally when you announce a tour like this, you announce part of it, you leave it to be, you see what happens, you might do a date here and another date there. You don’t want to be completely hand fast, so you do leave some dates in between,” “So we’ll see what happens.”

This latest road trip comes months after the band performed a sold-out, five-city stint in New York, New Jersey and London.

Mick added: “We just said, ‘Let’s do these five shows before Christmas and see how it goes and see if we enjoy it, see if the audience seems to have a good time, and if that works, then we’ll try to see if we’ll do more,”‘ he said. “We still wanted to keep it kind of limited. We didn’t want to have that yawning (tour) of hundreds of shows lined up for the next 18 months. I just thought it would be good if we booked a small tour, and then, you know, if we want to do more, we’ll do more.”

The Stones have penciled in at least three days in between their 50 and Counting tour stops , those days could be needed for some well deserved rest or allow more dates to be added.

They’ll kick off their 50 and Counting tour in Los Angeles; (date tba) . The second show is in Oakland, California, on 5 May. They’ll also visit Las Vegas, Toronto, Chicago and Boston, and wrap in Philadelphia on 18 June.

The band recently announced that former bandmate Mick Taylor, who slung the guitar with them from 1969 through 1974, would be joining them onstage as special guest throughout the tour.

Earlier today the Hyde Park gig which is scheduled for July 6 sold out in 3 minutes with many disappointed fans complaining about £300 ticket prices.

UPDATE: Tickets for second Hyde Park concert on July 13th are now on general sale.

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