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Story: Jack Foley
THE Rolling Stones have kicked off their latest world tour in
Boston to considerable acclaim.
The veteran rockers - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts
and Ronnie Wood - played to a sell-out crowd at the Fenway Park
baseball stadium on Sunday, August 21 (2005) to mark the second
time they have kicked off a world tour there.
The Stones' will return to Fenway Park on Tuesday (August 24)
before playing further dates across the US and Canada and then
travelling to South America, the Far East and finally Europe.
Sunday's set kicked off with a rousing version of Start Me
Up and included classics such as Brown Sugar and
Sympathy for the Devil.
It also included several tracks from the forthcoming new album,
A Bigger Bang.
And while the encore included You Can't Always Get What You
Want it seems that The Rolling Stones can.
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Critics who were at the show hailed
it as another major triumph which cemented the band's reputation
as the greatest rock and roll act on the planet.
The Boston Globe, for instance, wrote: "The opening night
of the band's 31st global tour was marked by numerous high points,
not the least of which was the guys' indefatigable passion for
playing music.
"Appropriately, they hit the stage with Start Me Up,
as plumes of fire shot skyward from the front of the stage. Dressed
in blue satin pants and a silver jacket, Jagger jumped about in
all his swivel-hipped glory."
While the New York Times opined that 'age can be cruel to musicians,
eroding voices and stamina. But yes, the Stones can still do it'.
And the New York Post declared: "For two hours, on what's
reportedly the biggest, most expensive stage ever assembled for
a rock show, the legendary band, known for excess, demonstrated
how too much was just enough.
"With 36,000 fans on the brink of mass hysteria, Boston's
hallowed baseball field was electric from curtain to bow."
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