Rolling Stones Open 2022 Tour, Marking 60th Year
The Rolling Stones opened their 2022 tour on Wednesday (June 1) in Madrid, Spain, a city they hadn’t played since 2014. The latest edition is named “Sixty” to mark the band’s 60th anniversary. For now, the tour is limited to 14 concerts, all in Europe and the U.K. The band had closed the 2021 U.S. edition of their “No Filter” tour – held entirely in the U.S. and first without Charlie Watts – – on Nov. 23 in Hollywood, Fla.
The opening night concert, before 53,000 fans at Wanda Metropolitano Stadium, featured 19 songs, and the setlist was almost identical to those performed last year. The evening’s biggest surprise wasn’t lost on the audience: Mick Jagger let them know that it was the first time that the Stones performed the set’s fifth number, 1966’s “Out of Time,” in concert. Watch it and many other clips below.
Jagger and Keith Richards are 78. Ronnie Wood turned 75 on opening night (and the audience sang “Happy Birthday” to him). They were joined, once again, by drummer Steve Jordan, Darryl Jones (bass), Chuck Leavell (piano/organ), Karl Denson (sax), Tim Ries (sax) Matt Clifford (keyboards), and Bernard Fowler/Sasha Allen (backing vocals).
As the lights dimmed, a brief video montage of Watts appeared on the giant screens. And when the tribute ended, there were the Stones, kicking things off with “Street Fighting Man.”
