 Astoria, London
on Wednesday, August 27th. 2003 The London club show is here at the
famous Astoria. The Thrills will take care of the warm-up.
Set list:
Jumping Jack Flash - Live With Me - Hand Of Fate - No
Expectations - Worried About You - Doo Doo Heartbreaker - It's Only Rock'n'Roll
- Ain't Too Proud To Beg - Everybody Needs Somebody To Love - That's How Strong
My Love Is - Going To A Go Go - Nearness Of You - Before They Make Me Run -
Can't Turn You Loose - Honky Tonk Women - Start Me Up - Tumbling Dice - Brown
Sugar - Satisfaction.
Review Stones Get Soulful in London:
Temptations, Otis, Smokey Robinson covers
highlight classic set
Outside
the Astoria, on Charing Cross Road, tickets were changing hands for $1500.
Inside, in front of the luckiest 2,000 people in London, the Rolling Stones
played the most intimate show of the British leg of their world tour Wednesday
night.
After storming the stage with a muscular "Jumping Jack Flash," the
Stones stomped right into "Live With Me." Then Mick Jagger -- in a
T-shirt adorned with his own name -- paused for a minute to address the hometown
crowd. "We're gonna do a few different numbers we don't usually do,"
he said. "The problem is, we don't know them as well."
"Don't know what album this is from," he admitted before Beggars
Banquet's "No Expectations," which featured Ronnie Wood on lap
steel guitar. And for a searing "Worried About You" (from Tattoo
You), Jagger himself played piano, and employed a fearsome falsetto that
built to a riveting climax.
The Stones backed it up with soul covers from the Temptations ("Ain't
Too Proud to Beg") to Otis Redding ("That's How Strong My Love
Is," "Can't Turn You Loose."
In the middle of the show, Keith Richards performed a two-song solo set of
the standard "Nearness of You" and "Before They Make Me Run."
Looking around, he announced that the Astoria was a "nice joint."
"They're a funny bunch [The Rolling Stones]," he said, "you
should work with these people."
Classic hits "Honky Tonk Women," "Start Me Up," "Tumbling
Dice" and "Brown Sugar" closed out the set.
After a riotous "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" for an encore, the
Rolling Stones closed the show with the four core members taking a bow in a
tight spotlight -- still on top.
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