For many years, it was said that the Rolling Stones were too old to rock and roll. The band even saw fit to answer that charge (on one reading of the song) with “You Got Me Rocking” in 1994. And yet, here they are, 30 years later, on an unexcitingly sponsored AARP tour. Ironically, one can conclude that they have the last laugh.
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, both 80, have shown that they are, each in their own way, true strangers to nature (Ronnie Wood, who only turns 77 on Saturday, is the baby of the group). And on the heels of the release of “Hackney Diamonds,” their first recording of new material in 18 years, none of them looked too old to sing Thursday night at Gillette Stadium, as they returned to play their 100th show at the venue after playing their first show. Appear there in 2002.
The band played for exactly two hours, and it was mostly a show made up of old Stones compositions, starting with “Start Me Up” and going through the likes of “Tumbling Dice”, “Wild Horses” and “Wild Horses”. “You can’t always get what you want.” The Rolling Stones give the people what they want.
But they also provided a healthy sampling of their new album with four of its songs, including “Angry”; The song’s video is projected high and wide around the band, with snippets of the Stones in action over the years, as a reminder of how long they’ve been at it. And they added something rare to “Emotional Rescue,” the fan-voted selection for the evening. “This is the first time we’ve done this in a long time; “I hope it doesn’t show,” Jagger said, showing that he’s still at the falsetto level the song requires.
He was up to more than that. He was amazing from the beginning to the last note, strutting, twirling, cajoling, preening, jumping, and running as hard as he could, from one end of the stage to the other and out onto the stage that extended into the crowd. . Richards seems more stoic these days, or at least he was during the first half of Thursday’s show, but he started smiling during “Little T&A,” one of two songs he sang.
Around that time, the show found another vehicle, first in the thrilling “Sympathy for the Devil,” then in a ferocious overlong take on “Midnight Rambler” that worked its way into a brief visit to Robert Johnson’s “Hellhound on.” My driveway.” Shortly thereafter, backup singer Chanel Hines took center stage and unleashed her powerful vocals, first on the chorus of “Gimme Shelter,” then alongside Jagger during the encore of another new song, the gospel-tinged “Sweet.” Heaven’s Voices. This may be the Rolling Stones’ final tour. But if Thursday’s show was the last Boston would see these veterans play, they came out shining.
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With red clay electrolytes. At Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Thursday
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