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The Rolling Stones in France this summer: a look back at 58 years of legendary concerts in Paris

2022-03-18T17:14:52.458Z


IN PICTURES – Tickets for the concerts at Groupama Stadium, in Lyon, on July 19 and at the Longchamp racecourse, in Paris, on July 23 went on sale on Friday. A look back at the Stones' memorable Parisian performances.


The group formed in Dartford in 1962 is preparing to celebrate its sixtieth anniversary on European stages from June 1st.

Now the only original members on board, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards will give the 34th concert of their record-breaking career on July 23.

Four days after Lyon, the group assembled by Brian Jones, a blues fanatic, will land in Paris.

Tickets went on sale this Friday morning at 10 a.m. for both dates.

The last time they performed here, in 2017, was to inaugurate the Paris La Défense Arena stadium, a 50,000-seat structure in Nanterre, for three concerts.

This year, they return to the Longchamp racecourse, where they gave two concerts in 1995.

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Sacha Reins, who attended all the Stones performances!

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The Rolling Stones: Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Brian Jones in London, April 23, 1964. ALAMY / KOKO / REUTERS

Olympia, 10/20/1964

A few months after the Beatles, the other great British band of the sixties took its first steps on a French stage in the legendary Parisian music hall.

In the first part, as was customary at that time, an assortment of various attractions: jugglers, singers (here, Jean-Marie Proslier) and also Pierre Perret, who will manage to slip five songs in front of an audience of black jackets.

Olympia, from 16 to 18/04/1965

“In one year, the Stones had made dazzling progress,”

recalls Sacha Reins.

After a first part provided by the English rocker exiled in France Vince Taylor, Jagger and his band went into overdrive.

“The concert was more structured than the first year”

explains Reins.

Jagger was beginning to develop his signature style.

They still played mostly Chuck Berry standards and rhythm'n'blues classics.

In the room, a majority of boys, greeted by gendarmes, guns on their shoulders.

“The group was still considered a danger to public order.

But the room was not ransacked at all.

Olympia, 03/29/1966 and 04/11/1967

In 1967, the Stones gave their last concert in Paris with Brian Jones.

The formation has changed status since the success of Satisfaction in 1965. However, it continues to cut with the all-comers of English rock.

“The fact that they were scruffy was a revolution.

They didn't follow the rules.

They were gossiping about the covers.

My first shock was visual, from the cover of the first LP.

They were horrible, badly dressed according to the canons of the time, ”

recalls Sacha Reins.

Mick Jagger during the Rolling Stones concert at the Olympia on April 11, 1967. AGIP / Bridgeman Images

Sports Palace, from 22 to 24/09/1970

"

I was having a drink in the bar opposite when a young guy approached me to ask me if I could let him in,"

recalls Sacha Reins, then editor-in-chief of the rock magazine

Best

.

“I couldn't, but I offered to drop by and show me his pictures of the concert the next day in the newspaper in case he managed to sneak in.

His name: Claude Gassian

.

To say that 20 years later he had become the official photographer of the group.

A year after the death of Brian Jones, the Stones induct their new guitarist, Mick Taylor, great soloist.

“The group has never been as good as when it was there”

explains Sacha Reins.

In the first part, the bluesmen Buddy Guy and Junior Wells welcome another legend of the guitar: Eric Clapton.

Read alsoClaude Gassian, photographer of the rock soul

Brussels, 17 October 1973

Of course, Brussels is not the French capital, neither in 1973 nor today.

But, prevented from setting foot in our territory following their escapades in the summer of 1971 on the Côte d'Azur - and Keith Richards' setbacks with drugs - the Stones give a concert reserved for the French public in the capital. Belgian.

RTL radio has chartered a special train.

The group is then at the top, which has just published its 4 best albums in quick succession.

Long broadcast as a bootleg recording, the concert was officially released on the Goat's Head Soup box set.

Magical repertoire, impressive cohesion, exceptional vitality: the Stones are then truly

“the best rock band in the world.”

Paris Pavilion, June 4-7, 1976

New show and new guitarist with the arrival of Ron Wood, clone of Keith Richards.

Freddy Hausser's cameras immortalize the concert for Antenne 2. But the atmosphere is gloomy.

One evening, Keith Richards goes on stage a few hours after learning of the accidental death of his ten-month-old son.

“If I hadn't played that night, I would have shot myself,”

explained Richards.

“Behind the scenes, they had reconstructed a typical small village square in the south of France.

At one point, a guy panicked because he pulled out a gun.

Caroline of Monaco was there, security was there which quickly neutralized her.

Probably a madman who wanted to punish Jagger for his sins”,

explains Sacha Reins.

Mick Jagger on June 5, 1976, on stage at the Paris Pavilion at La Villette.

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Auteuil Racecourse, 06/13 and 14/1982

A real rock marathon with concerts from 1 p.m.: the Americans J Geils Band and George Thorogood, and the French clones of the Stones: Telephone.

The group assumes gigantism by inaugurating the open-air tours that will become their raison d'être for the next 40 years.

In chick yellow sportswear, Jagger gets into the habit of pacing the scenes running.

The Stones have become a circus.

Mick Jagger and guitarist Ron Wood perform on June 14, 1982 at the Hippodrome d'Auteuil in Paris, in front of 70,000 people.

JOEL ROBINE / AFP

Parc des Princes, 22, 23 and 25/06/1990

“I took my wife who didn't like old people's groups.

She loved it, she has since become a Stones fan,”

recalls Sacha Reins.

After coming close to separation, Jagger and Richards patched things up for a decent album and a world tour.

However, rumors are already circulating.

“Would this be the last time?”

Set in an extravagant setting, this is the final lap of bassist Bill Wyman, tired of flying all over the place, who will be retiring to the south of France.

Longchamp Racecourse, 06/30 and 07/01/1995

Two evenings, two atmospheres.

On Friday, great weather.

On Saturday, a deluge.

"To thank the public for staying despite the rain, the group, soaked, played an extra half hour,"

recalls Sacha Reins.

Olympia, 07/03/1995

28 years after their last appearance in the venue on boulevard des Capucines, the Stones are giving a concert there to which VIPs flock: Jack Nicholson, Jerry Hall, but also Patrick Bruel!

However, the show, quite rough, disappoints the spectators who had to wait for hours to get a place.

Stade de France, 07/25/1998

Mick Jagger triggers a riot when he takes the floor to say:

“We are very happy to play for the world champions”,

a few weeks after the Victory of the Blues.

The singer is celebrating his 55th birthday today.

First rock singer to perform at the Stade de France, two months before Johnny Hallyday, Mick Jagger does not save himself.

And if the setlists have become more and more predictable over the years, this

Brides to Babylon

tour - yet one of their worst records - does not demerit.

The group will return very often to the Stadium: in 2003 as part of the 40th anniversary tour, in 2006 and 2007 for the disc

A Bigger Bang

, and in 2014 as part of their fiftieth anniversary ceremonies, with Mick Taylor as special guest.

Fans attend the Rolling Stones concert on July 25 on the stage of the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, during the first concert organized in the stadium.

BERTRAND GUAY / AFP

Bercy, 07/07/2003

For their forty-year career, the Stones gave three concerts: at the Stade de France, at the Olympia and at the Palais de Bercy.

Divine surprise, the group plays

Can't You Hear Me Knockin

, pearl of

Sticky Fingers,

in what remains the best of the three Parisian concerts given that summer.

The Rolling Stones at the Olympia during the third and last Parisian concert of the

Forty Licks world tour,

July 11, 2003. ERIC FEFERBERG / AFP

Trabendo, 25/10/2012

The inscription on the ticket announced a very short warm-up concert: it was finally for a good hour and a quarter that the veterans played a dozen titles in tight formation.

Despite Keith Richards being very withdrawn - they simply don't play guitar on certain songs, the concert marks the lucky ones who attended it.

“It's strange to be back.

We can't believe we are all still up.

One or two of us should be on the ground, but that's not the case”,

Mick Jagger will declare between two songs.

Mike Jagger on his arrival at Trabendo in Paris, October 25, 2012. KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP

Theater of Mogador, 29/10/2012

A few days after the Trabendo, the Stones give a private concert for the guests of the French businessman Édouard Carmignac.

La Défense Arena on 19, 22 and/10/2017

Fifty-three years after their first concert in Paris, the Stones gave a more than honest performance.

Even frankly inspired at times.

Jagger is still an incomparable stage beast.

Sparkling in a lamé jacket, with an assertive voice, precise gestures, the singer has established himself as the benchmark he has been since the group's beginnings.

He never seems to struggle in a singing tour of just over two hours, made up mostly of fast titles.

“I love you,”

he will declare to the public.

The Rolling Stones perform in concert at La Defense Arena in Paris on October 19, 2017. The concert was the inaugural event at the modern stadium.

Silpa David/UPI/ABACA

Source: lefigaro

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