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09-16-03 08:23 AM
Mother baby Rolling Stones Hit Home Straight on World Tour
By Paul Majendie

(Spanish Translation 3 posts below)

LONDON (Reuters) - Showing the stamina of a group half their age, the Rolling Stones hit the home straight on Monday night on a world tour that has attracted almost 1.5 million fans.

Critics may mock the "Strolling Bones" of these wrinkly rockers who boast a combined age of 237 years.

But the adrenalin of playing live sure is a shot in the arm for 60-year-old Mick Jagger , whose swiveling hips and pouting lips show no signs of crumbling yet.

"This band will die on stage," said a spokesman for the group, whose "Licks" tour has taken them to 18 countries since they started in Boston last September.

As Jagger said at the start of the European leg of the tour in Munich "Never say Never."

The last Stones tour grossed over $200 million and this looks set to top that for the self-styled greatest rock band in the world.

London's Wembley Arena was to be the last "Licks" gig but a bout of flu that laid Jagger low played havoc with their schedule.

Extra shows have now been laid on in Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands but the band still decided to go ahead with their end-of-tour party in London Monday night though they are still on the road.

In each city, the Stones liked to play one intimate venue, one arena and one stadium.

That prompted King of Excess Keith Richards , whose face looks like a crumbling tombstone, to quip: "I call it The Fruit of the Loom tour: small, medium and large."

Like Paul McCartney ,Jagger is a Sixties icon who still gets a buzz from playing live. Retirement is not an option.

From the moment the band struck up "Start Me Up," all 12,000 fans were on their feet for two hours of non-stop rock n' roll.

From "Paint It Black" to "Honky Tonk Woman," they belted out hits that were the soundtrack of so many lives in the crowd.

This was Show Number 91 on the tour but there was nothing jaded about it.

Jagger, maracas in hand, launched into all those dance routines that were so slavishly copied by every pouting teen-ager in the Swinging Sixties. The flamboyant frontman who once sang "What A Drag It Is Getting Old" had his middle-aged fans high on nostalgia.

For these dinosaurs of rock are in no danger of extinction. Music's "Satanic Majesties" are certainly not ready to "Fade Away

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[Edited by Mother baby]
09-16-03 08:32 AM
Jumacfly nice conclusion!!!!
09-16-03 08:39 AM
steel driving hammer On Satanic Majesties Request who is making the request, Satan or the Stones?
09-16-03 03:09 PM
Mother baby Rolling Stones voltam para casa na ıltima fase da turnı mundial

LONDRES (Reuters) - Com a energia de uma banda com a metade de sua idade, os Rolling Stones chegaram em casa na noite de segunda-feira para encerrar uma turnı mundial que atraiu mais de 1,5 milhıo de fıs.

Os crıticos podem depreciar os veteranos roqueiros enrugados, que juntos somam a idade de 237 anos, mas a adrenalina de tocar ao vivo certamente estimula Mick Jagger, 60 anos, que continua rebolando e contorcendo os lıbios como nunca.

"A banda vai morrer no palco", disse um porta-voz dos Stones, cuja turnı "Licks" atravessou 18 paıses desde seu inıcio, em Boston, em setembro do ano passado.

A turnı dos Stones arrecadou mais de 200 milhıes de dılares e a cifra parece confirmar o status de maior banda de rock do planeta.

O Wembley Arena seria o ıltimo show da turnı, mas uma gripe atacou Jagger e mudou a cronologia dos eventos. Agora, os Stones farıo shows extras em Portugal, Espanha e Holanda. Mesmo assim, o grupo deu uma festa comemorando o fim da turnı em Londres na segunda-feira.

Em cada cidade, os Stones tentaram fazer um show intimista, um outro show mıdio e um show em estıdio.

Como Paul McCartney, Jagger ı um ıcone dos anos 60 que ainda se diverte tocando ao vivo. A aposentadoria nem ı cogitada.

No momento em que a banda atacou de "Start Me Up", os 12 mil fıs de Londres comeıaram a pular e nıo pararam durante as duas horas de rock'n'roll.

De "Paint It Black" a "Honky Tonk Woman", eles tocaram sucessos que formam a trilha sonora da vida de muita gente da platıia. O show foi o 91o da turnı.

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