| 20th August 2006 09:59 PM |
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| Soldatti |
Stones dismay as concert fans show their age
23:52pm 20th August 2006
Even after more than 40 years, Mick Jagger still has an enviable reputation as a party animal.
But while his rock star lifestyle seems to have taken little toll on him, it appears the passing years have made more of a mark on some of his fans.
Fearing the Rolling Stones' British tour would attract hordes of gyrating pensioners, promoters cancelled a halfprice discount offer in association with Saga magazine last week.
But their efforts seem to have been in vain. As the tour started last night, the men and women filing into Twickenham stadium in South-West London were more likely eligible for a free bus pass than a young person's railcard.
Pictures of the Rolling Stones in concert at Twickenham
Lizzie Jagger can't get any satisfaction
It was clear that the veteran rockers on stage might still favour spray-on jeans and spiky bouffant hairstyles, but the audience were more likely to opt for clean and pressed T-shirts or sweatshirts with the famous Rolling Stones logo.
And forget drunken fights and queuebarging - these fans lined up in an orderly fashion to take their seats in the arena.
As the concert started, it seemed unlikely that 63-year-old Sir Mick, whose band has a combined age of 249, would be doing any crowd-surfing.
In any case, he has only just recovered from a bout of laryngitis, which forced the cancellation of two shows in Spain last week.
Meanwhile, guitarist Keith Richards is still recovering from a head injury sustained falling out a tree in Fiji earlier
this year. Young rock fans have spurned the biggest-grossing tour band of all time and the Stones have had trouble shifting tickets for the Bigger Bang tour this year.
Perhaps impoverished youngsters have been put off by the prices - some seats cost as much as £195. Tickets are still available for the second Twickenham show tomorrow, as well as those in Cardiff and Glasgow.
Billboards across London have trumpeted the band's arrival in the capital and promoters have also taken the unusual step of taking adverts out in newspapers to sell leftover tickets.
The lacklustre take-up for Stones tickets contrasts with their Steel Wheels world tour of 1989 when they broke the world record of the time by taking £250million in sales.
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| 21st August 2006 08:15 AM |
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| mrhipfl |
At the concert in Switzerland. I bet half the audience was under 30. I had no problem finding many people my age to talk about the stones with. Two pictures don't prove shit. |
| 21st August 2006 08:31 AM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
>.....Sir Mick, whose band has a combined age of 249, would be doing any crowd-surfing.<
249 huh?! What an interesting statistic! I'll have to commit that to memory today.
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| 21st August 2006 09:00 AM |
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| lotsajizz |
American and English crowds seemed the oldest. Moncton, Canada was nice because it was 3/4 under 30 years of age---lots of eye candy on a hot day!!
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| 21st August 2006 10:15 AM |
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| Joey |
quote:
lotsajizz wrote:
lots of eye candy on a hot day!!
................titties hanging out all over the place ?!?!
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[Kins]
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| 21st August 2006 10:23 AM |
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| Some Guy |
quote:
Joey wrote:
................titties hanging out all over the place ?!?!
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[Kins]
[Edited by Joey]
best post ever! |
| 21st August 2006 10:32 AM |
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| Joey |
quote:
Some Guy wrote:
best post ever!
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[cc:ss]
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| 21st August 2006 10:42 AM |
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| Some Guy |
That's hot. |
| 21st August 2006 10:48 AM |
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| Joey |
quote:
Some Guy wrote:
That's hot.
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