The Rolling Stones concert at Washington–Grizzly Stadium in Missoula, Montana on 4 October 2006

Since forming in 1962, the English rock band The Rolling Stones have performed more than two thousand concerts around the world,[1] becoming one of the world's most popular live music attractions in the process.

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The Stones first American tour happened in 1964-June.

In their early years of performing, the band would undertake numerous short tours of the United Kingdom and North America, playing in small- and medium-size venues to audiences composed largely of screaming girls. As time moved on, their audience base expanded (in terms of both size and diversity) and they would increasingly favour larger arenas and stadiums. For many years, the group would choose to play North America, Continental Europe, and the United Kingdom on a three-year rotating cycle.

Many audio recordings exist of Rolling Stones concerts, both official and unofficial. Seventeen official concert albums (eighteen in the US) have been released by the band, 6 of which were previously unreleased concert recordings released from 2011–2012, including the highly bootlegged Brussels Affair. Several of their concerts have also been filmed and released under a variety of titles, such as The Stones in the Park which records the band's performance at Hyde Park in 1969 on the festival of the same name.

The most famous and heavily documented of all the band's concerts was the Altamont Free Concert at the Altamont Speedway in 1969, the final show of their American Tour 1969. For this concert, the biker gang Hells Angels provided security, which resulted in a fan, Meredith Hunter, being stabbed and beaten to death by the Angels after he drew a firearm.[2] Part of the tour and the Altamont concert were documented in Albert and David Maysles' film Gimme Shelter. As a response to the growing popularity of bootleg recordings, the album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! (UK 1; US 6) was released in 1970; it was declared by critic Lester Bangs to be the best live album ever.[3]

The biggest concert the band gave was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, part of the A Bigger Bang Tour, in 2006. The second largest was in 2016, when the band played for the first time in Cuba, during their América Latina Olé tour. An estimated 1.2 million fans, more than half of the population of Havana, saw the Rolling Stones whose music had been banned by the Cuban regime until only nine years before the concert. A live album and film, The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon, were released in 2016.

Concert tour chronology

In bold, the tours which, when completed, became the highest-grossing of all time.[6]

Year Title Date Associated album(s) Continent(s) Shows
1963 British Tour 1963 29 September 1963 – 3 November 1963 — Europe 60
1964 1st British Tour 1964 6 January 1964 – 27 January 1964 Europe 28
2nd British Tour 1964 8 February 1964 – 7 March 1964 Europe 58
1st American Tour 1964 5 June 1964 – 20 June 1964 The Rolling Stones North America 11
3rd British Tour 1964 1 August 1964 – 22 August 1964 Europe 11
4th British Tour 1964 5 September 1964 – 11 October 1964 Europe 64
2nd American Tour 1964 24 October 1964 – 11 November 1964 12 X 5 North America 11
1965 Irish Tour 1965 6 January 1965 – 8 January 1965 The Rolling Stones No. 2 Europe 6
Far East Tour 1965 22 January 1965 – 16 February 1965 Oceania
Asia		 36
1st British Tour 1965 5 March 1965 – 18 March 1965 Europe 28
1st European Tour 1965 26 March 1965 – 2 April 1965 Europe 11
2nd European Tour 1965 16 April 1965 – 18 April 1965 Europe 3
1st American Tour 1965 23 April 1965 – 29 May 1965 The Rolling Stones, Now! North America 22
3rd European Tour 1965 15 June 1965 – 29 June 1965 — Europe 15
2nd Irish Tour 1965 3 September 1965 – 4 September 1965 Europe 2
4th European Tour 1965 11 September 1965 – 17 September 1965 Europe 11
2nd British Tour 1965 24 September 1965 – 17 October 1965 Europe 48
2nd American Tour 1965 29 October 1965 – 5 December 1965 Out of Our Heads Europe 41
1966 Australasian Tour 1966 18 February 1966 – 1 March 1966 — Oceania 18
European Tour 1966 26 March 1966 – 5 April 1966 Europe 12
American Tour 1966 24 June 1966 – 28 July 1966 Aftermath North America 32
British Tour 1966 23 September 1966 – 9 October 1966 — Europe 23
1967 European Tour 1967 25 March 1967 – 17 April 1967 Between the Buttons Europe 27
1969 American Tour 1969 7 November 1969 – 6 December 1969 Beggars Banquet North America 24
1970 European Tour 1970 30 August 1970 – 9 October 1970 Let It Bleed Europe 23
1971 UK Tour 1971 4 March 1971 – 26 March 1971 — Europe 18
1972 American Tour 1972 3 June 1972 – 26 July 1972 Exile on Main St. North America 48
1973 Pacific Tour 1973 18 January 1973 – 27 February 1973 — North America
Oceania		 14
European Tour 1973 1 September 1973 – 19 October 1973 Goats Head Soup Europe 42
1975 Tour of the Americas '75 1 June 1975 – 8 August 1975 Made in the Shade North America 46
1976 Tour of Europe '76 28 April 1976 – 23 June 1976 Black and Blue Europe 41
1978 US Tour 1978 10 June 1978 – 26 July 1978 Some Girls North America 25
1981 American Tour 1981 25 September 1981 – 19 December 1981 Tattoo You North America 50
1982 European Tour 1982 26 May 1982 – 25 July 1982 Europe 36
1989 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour 31 August 1989 – 25 August 1990 Steel Wheels North America
Asia
Europe		 115
1990
1994 Voodoo Lounge Tour 1 August 1994 – 30 August 1995 Voodoo Lounge North America
South America
Africa
Asia
Oceania
Europe		 129
1995
1997 Bridges to Babylon Tour 23 September 1997 – 19 September 1998 Bridges to Babylon North America
Asia
South America
Europe		 97
1998
1999 No Security Tour 25 January 1999 – 20 June 1999 No Security North America
Europe		 43
2002 Licks Tour 3 September 2002 – 9 November 2003 Forty Licks North America
Oceania
Asia
Europe		 117
2003
2005 A Bigger Bang Tour 21 August 2005 – 26 August 2007 A Bigger Bang North America
South America
Asia
Oceania
Europe		 147
2006
2007
2012 50 & Counting 25 October 2012 – 13 July 2013 GRRR! Europe
North America		 30
2013
2014 14 On Fire 21 February 2014 – 22 November 2014 — Asia
Europe
Oceania		 29
2015 Zip Code 20 May 2015 – 15 July 2015 Sticky Fingers (Deluxe 2015 Edition) North America 17
2016 América Latina Olé 3 February 2016 – 25 March 2016 — South America 14
2017 No Filter Tour 9 September 2017 – 23 November 2021 Blue & Lonesome Europe
North America		 58
2018
2019
2021
2022 Sixty 1 June 2022 – 3 August 2022 — Europe 14
2024 Hackney Diamonds Tour 28 April 2024 - 17 July 2024 Hackney Diamonds North America 19

See also

Notes

    References

    1. ↑ Hillary Leung (2 April 2019). "Rolling Stones' North American Tour Postponed as Mick Jagger Undergoes Medical Treatment". time.com.
    2. ↑ Burks, John, "Rock & Roll's Worst Day: The aftermath of Altamont", Rolling Stone, 1970-02-07, URL retrieved 18 April 2007
    3. ↑ Bangs, Lester. "The Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" Archived 30 November 2006 at the Wayback Machine. Rolling Stone. 12 November 1970 (accessed 28 April 2007)
    4. ↑ "Blues before sunrise – Marquee Club, 165 Oxford St, London W1D →2JW". stonesexhibitionism.com. July 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
    5. ↑ "12th July 1962". rollingstones.com. July 2016. Archived from the original on 19 June 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
    6. ↑ The Rolling Stones' 12 July 1962 debut show 14-song setlist was as follows: Kansas City (Wilbert Harrison cover); Honey What's Wrong (Bully Fury cover); Confessin' The Blues (Chuck Berry cover); Bright Lights, Big City (Jimmy Reed cover); Dusty My Blues (Elmore James cover); Down The Road Apiece (Chuck Berry cover); I Wanna Love You (Charles Smith cover), I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Muddy Waters cover); Back In The U.S.A. (Chuck Berry cover); Kind Of Lonesome (Jimmy Reed cover); Blues Before Sunrise (Elmore James cover); Big Boss Man (Jimmy Reed cover); Don't Stay Out All Night (Billy Boy Arnold cover); Happy Home (Elmore James cover). The line-up was: Mick, Keith, Brian, Stu, and Dick, but no drummer.[4][5]

    Works cited

    • Carr, Roy. The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record. Harmony Books, 1976. ISBN 0-517-52641-7
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