ROLLING STONES. To celebrate its 60-year career and bid farewell, the legendary Rolling Stones group is passing through France for two concerts.
[Mis à jour le 20 juillet 2022 à 15h41] “It’s our 53rd concert in France, but it’s certainly the hottest”, launches Mick Jagger in front of the crowd at the Groupama Stadium in Lyon, Tuesday July 19, 2022. Under a blazing heat, the public is at the rendezvous for this Rolling Stones concert, which has been sold out for months, despite the price of tickets (between 95 and 333 euros, the Stones, it has to be earned).
The day after this concert in Lyon, it is in Paris, at the ParisLonchamps racecourse, that the Rolling Stones will perform for their second and last date of this anniversary tour, the group is celebrating its sixtieth anniversary, but also, farewell . This 14-date mini-European tour, called Sixty (“Sixty”), will end on August 3 in Berlin.
The Rolling Stones in concert in Paris
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 group’s Parisian concert is sold out, as was the case only a few days after the ticket office opened.
The first of the two dates planned by the Rolling Stones in France took place in Lyon, Tuesday July 19, 2022. An event date, which took 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”, underlined before this show Arnaud Meersseman, general manager in France of AEG, world producer of the Stones and organizer of this Lyon concert.
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 hometown of another legendary band, the Beatles, at Liverpool’s Anfield stadium.