ROLLING STONES. The legendary rock band will be back in France, with two concert dates: one in Paris, the other in Lyon, for the 60th anniversary of the Rolling Stones.
[Mis à jour le 15 mars 2022 à 10h23] To celebrate its sixtieth anniversary, the legendary Rolling Stones group will return to France this summer for two special concerts, in Paris and Lyon, in July 2022. At 78 years old for Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, or 74 years for Ronnie Wood, the London formation will therefore celebrate its ten decades of career during a European tour which will take them to 10 countries, including France, for a total of fourteen concert dates.
The Rolling Stones will therefore go to Groupama Stadium, in Lyon, on July 19, then to the Longchamp racecourse, at the gates of Paris, on July 23. The Stones’ last concert in France took place in Marseille in 2018. Needless to say, fans of Mick Jagger and his band will be there.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 18 at 10 a.m. The ticket office will be accessible on the site of Fnac or of Seetickets. For prices, count from 56.50 euros and 342.50 euros in Paris and between 95 euros in lawn to 287.50 euros in golden square in Lyon.
Among the two concerts announced in France, the Rolling Stones will be in Paris on July 23, 2022 ! Or more precisely at the Paris-Longchamps racecourse, at the gates of the capital. The concert will take place after the Lollapalooza Festival, reports The Parisian. “It’s going to be historic, there is no bigger group in the world. We are staying on the Lollapalooza Festival site, which ends on the 17th, explains to the daily Angelo Gopee, general manager of Live Nation France, which produces this date. We are going to keep all the infrastructure, the wine and champagne bars, the restaurants. We are also going to set up free shuttles from the gates of Auteuil and Maillot. We want to offer the best conditions for people to spend a moment at the height of the event, exceptional.”
And for good reason, the last time the Rolling Stones performed in Paris was in October 2017, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Paris-La Défense Arena.
The second date scheduled by the Rolling Stones in France will take place in Lyon, July 19, 2022. An event date, which will take place at Groupama Stadium. “It’s an honor and a privilege to work with such an iconic group, it’s just the biggest group in the world”, underlines Arnaud Meersseman, general manager in France of AEG, world producer of the Stones and organizer of this concert. Lyons.
It was in a short video, shared on social networks on Monday March 14, that the Rolling Stones announced their return to Europe. A salvo of 14 concerts, in 10 countries, baptized Sixty, a reference to the legendary group’s sixty-year career. The tour kicks off on June 1 in Madrid, Spain and will take Mick Jagger, Keith Richard and Ronnie Wood to Stockholm on July 31, 2022. The Stones will also visit Germany, Munich, the Netherlands in Amsterdam , Milan in Italy, London in the United Kingdom and Brussels, in Belgium. The Rolling Stones will also perform in the city of another legendary group, the Beatles, at Liverpool’s Anfield stadium.