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[malaise]

The Rolling Stones review: A rejuvenated Mick Jagger leads the band at Soldier Field

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/greg-kot/ct-ent-rolling-stones-soldier-field-review-0624-20190622-p7d3zwhv65h47j5oenn6dpb4u4-story.html

When you get a smile from Charlie Watts, it’s something. Watts is the most self-effacing of the Rolling Stones, and typically plays the drums with a focus that precludes trivial amusements.

But on Friday he couldn’t contain the grin that broke out minutes into the Stones’ opening song at Soldier Field. Singer Mick Jagger was prancing down a long runway from the stage through the audience like a rubber-legged kid who’d just been emancipated from school on the first day of summer.

Not bad for a guy who in March underwent what was described as a “minimally invasive” heart valve replacement procedure, which forced the band to postpone the first 14 dates on its spring-summer No Filter tour.

Jagger’s rapid recovery enabled the band to get back on the road for the Chicago dates, which include a second show Tuesday, their first official concerts since July 2018. The singer looked fit, energetic and particularly animated. He seemed to be enjoying himself, yes, but there was also an element of show-and-prove, as if he wanted to make it clear that his health issues were just a minor hiccup, not a potential career-ender.
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Heard from a DU insider that it was great

[underpants]

1. 👅

[Blues Heron]

2. Start him up!

He'll never stop!

[spanone]

3. K&R...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍

[Stinky The Clown]

4. GEEZER POWER

[mountain grammy]

5. Yes!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

6. Mick Jagger dancing after heart surgery (practice)

ABC News

Amazing for 75........

Bully for them, but don't know why the whole damn band isn't down for the count with arthritis....

[malaise]

11. Very cool

Thanks

[lpbk2713]

14. Inhalation therapy.

...

[jcgoldie]

7. Great news

Go Mick!

[blitzen]

8. I've got my tickets for the New Orleans show in July! n/t

[malaise]

13. Lucky you

[world wide wally]

9. See?

Yes, we can!

[panader0]

10. "The drummer is a man called Charlie McCoy--

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you all remember that rubber legged boy. Mama cookin' chicken
fried in bacon grease, c'mon along boys it's just down the road apiece."

[malaise]

12. Video not opening here

[winstars]

15. Sounds like it was a great show by a band that did its first show 57 years ago!!!

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-live-reviews/rolling-stones-chicago-comeback-concert-review-851420/


“The first night is always slightly wobbly,” Mick Jagger quipped as the Rolling Stones kicked off their 2019 No Filter tour at Chicago’s Soldier Field. But there’s “wobbly” and then there’s Stones wobbly—and stakes were high tonight. It was the Stones’ first show in nearly a year—their first since Jagger underwent surgery in April to replace a heart valve. So Mick was extra Mick tonight, as if maybe somewhere deep in that surgically reconstructed heart of stone, he felt he had something to prove. If so, he proved it. The show was a triumph for the World’s Greatest Rock & Roll Band, with Mick prancing all over the stadium in prime hip-shaking, troubadour-trapping fight mode.


The Stones needed to postpone their 17-date 2019 North American tour because of their frontman’s health issues. But barely two months after his procedure, a month shy of his 76th birthday, Mick dismissed any worries about whether he might hold back onstage. He already made headlines with his instant-classic post-op dance video, flaunting his undiminished moves in classic Mick mode: part clever sales pitch for the new tour, part narcissistic come-on. None of the Stones were holding back tonight.