The Rolling Stones returned to the stage Monday night in the US in their first gig without drummer Charlie Watts, who passed away last month at the age of 80.
It was a tribute to Watts, reports the BBC: an invitation-only concert held in the Massachusetts Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, where the band born in London in 1962 performed only 15 songs in front of an audience of about 300 people.
"It's a bit of a moving night for us because it's the first tour in 59 years we've done without our lovely Charlie Watts," Mick Jagger began: "We all miss Charlie so much. We miss him as a band, we miss him as man, on stage and off stage, "he continued. "We have so many memories of Charlie, and I'm sure some of you who have seen us before also have memories of Charlie. And I hope you remember him as we do," he concluded, toasting Watts' memory with a bottle of beer facing the public.
The band was joined on stage by Steve Jordan on drums, a musician who has collaborated with the Stones since the 1980s and who was supposed to temporarily replace Watts on the next tour,while the drummer was recovering following an operation.
The concert opened with 'Let's Spend the Night Together'.