I remember going to Wembley to see the Stones only to find it was cancelled.
The ticket was valid for the replacement show.
Question: What was the cancelled show date and the subsequent new date?
Many forward thanks.

from [www.timeisonourside.com]


July 10, 1990: Keith Richards is treated at a London hospital for a seriously infected finger and the
Rolling Stones postone their next three concerts: one in Cardiff, Wales, and two more at Wembley
Stadium. This is the first time in their history that the group has to postpone or cancel concerts
because of illness.

Wasn't that the same time as Cardiff? Keith and a Septic Finger?

I know cause I was the fool who turned up to the cancelled gig.....

[www.timeisonourside.com]


August 24-25, 1990: The Rolling Stones end their 1989-90 world tour, the biggest of their career and
largest-grossing in rock history at this point, with the two additional, rescheduled concerts at
London's Wembley Stadium. The concerts are again filmed for the IMAX movie and are Bill Wyman's
last ever public performances with the group.

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In a book it´s mentioned that they were to play at Wembley on July 11, 13, 14.



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Cheers Too Tough. I just bought Live At The Max. I wondered if I was at that show or not. I lost my ticket. And my memory is not what it was.

WOW. Nice pic. Was you there?.Me and my mates got to Stanmore Underground St. We bought our fare and went down to the platform. Only to see a huge sign saying RS show cancelled. We were gutted.

Thanks to Keith I seen these concerts. I couldn't make it to the original dates, but I was there for both postponed shows.
They brought back the Steel Wheels stage instead of the Urban Jungle set for these shows, didn't they?

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Thanks to Keith I seen these concerts. I couldn't make it to the original dates, but I was there for both postponed shows.
They brought back the Steel Wheels stage instead of the Urban Jungle set for these shows, didn't they?

They certainly did.

In fact nearly all of Live At The IMAX was filmed at that Saturday night gig.

Hi Barn Owl. Where did you get your source of info please? I´m steadily going through Nico Zentgraf´site. But nothing as yet. Cheers.

The reason for my question is because I am compiling as much info as possible for each time I have seen the Stones. Artwork, audio, video or whatever. As each show is a piece of rock n´roll history.

Hi jagger50!!

At the moment, I'm speaking from my own personal experience at having been at the gig myself (at the very front) and seeing a wired-up Julian Temple (the film's director) situated in a location right in front of the stage. For an hour or two before the Stones emerged, he was very animated, constantly looking around and pointing out things to different cameraman. When the gig started, there were cameras moving about everywhere!

If you watch the film (or DVD) you will notice that the Stones are using the Steel Wheels stage; which is it's only appearance during the entire european tour. This led many to speculate whether Keith's injury was really just a guise so as to buy time while the stage was brought over.

In the film itself, the familiar trappings of the old Wembley stadium can be seen during many of the songs, though interestingly, there is no written confirmation of this.

I'll have a look through my archives however, and see if I can find anything.

BTW, it was an absolutely brilliant concert!!

...and of course, Bill's final swansong...

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...that the Stones are using the Steel Wheels stage; which is it's only appearance during the entire european tour

they used it in berlin too, if i'm right

From nzentgraf.de:

911025A 25th October: Los Angeles, California Museum Of Science And Industry.
Premiere of the movie ‘At The Max’. Concert-film specially made for IMAX-
cinemas. Director: Julien Temple.
- Start Me Up (MJ/KR) -London 24.8.90
- Sad Sad Sad (MJ/KR) -Torino 28.7.90
- Tumbling Dice (MJ/KR) -London 24.8.90
- Ruby Tuesday (MJ/KR) -London 25.8.90
- Rock And A Hard Place (MJ/KR) -Torino 28.7.90
- Honky Tonk Women (MJ/KR) -Torino 28.7.90
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want (MJ/KR)
- Happy (MJ/KR) -East-Berlin 14.8.90
- Paint It Black (MJ/KR) -Torino 28.7.90
- 2000 Light Years From Home (MJ/KR) -Torino 28.7.90
- Sympathy For The Devil (MJ/KR) -London 24.8.90
- Street Fighting Man (MJ/KR) -London 25.8.90
- It’s Only Rock’n Roll (MJ/KR) -East-Berlin 14.8.90
- Brown Sugar (MJ/KR) -London 25.8.90
- Satisfaction (MJ/KR) -London 24.8.90
Note: Sound recording dates. The pictures are a mix of all listed shows plus
footage from Torino 29.7.90 (shot in an empty stadium!).

Cheers Barn Owl and erikjjf.

There's also a short clip from Vienna 1990 in At The Max, according to...think it was Basement News if memory serves

The postponed shows were :

Cardiff 11 July (postponed to 16 July - the date they were supposed to play Dublin, which had been cancelled some weeks earlier)

Wembley 13 & 14 July (postponed to August 24 & 25)

They brought back the Steel Wheels stage for the shows in Turin, East Berlin and Wembley - and maybe another one (maybe Prague?)

At the time it came out, "At The Max" was trumpeted as having been filmed at Wembley, but as indicated above, some of it is from Turin and East Berlin too.

As well as the footage shot in the empty stadium in Turin (a concert scheduled for that day was cancelled due to poor ticket sales), they also shot some onstage footage in the empty Wembley Stadium a couple of days before the concerts there.

Thanks Erik_Snow. Interesting. My first show was 1982 at Wembley. The What Makes The World Go Round DVD has a 1982 show. But IMO the camera angles are far to narrow. Not giving the full feel of the venue. Or the stage. Are there any other visual recordings of the 1982 Wembley shows?

No. Think thats the only pro shot of that whole tour, actually - apart from the TV footage. Its from the 26.6.82 show. The 'Make the world go round' boot;eg LP however comes from the 25.6.82 show.

I remember when that Wembley footage came out a few months later.Someone bought the master for about £500 or something (a helluva lot of cash in 1982-83 for a 50 minute piece of video) and then made a couple of hundred 1st gen copies of it, selling them for something like £45 a time.

Thank you my learned friends.

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They brought back the Steel Wheels stage for the shows in Turin, East Berlin and Wembley - and maybe another one (maybe Prague?)

saw the show in prague, they used the urban jungle stage. must have some pics, anywhere

i think keith cut his finger at the hampden show in glasgow just days before the wembley gig, he said to the crowd "ive cut my finger, who gives a shit" maybe it was that finger which became infected.

A great report of one of the original July shows from Robert Sandall of the London Sunday Times:

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They brought back the Steel Wheels stage for the shows in Turin, East Berlin and Wembley - and maybe another one (maybe Prague?)

saw the show in prague, they used the urban jungle stage. must have some pics, anywhere

Thanks. I have a video of the show, just couldnt be bothered looking for it!

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i think keith cut his finger at the hampden show in glasgow just days before the wembley gig, he said to the crowd "ive cut my finger, who gives a shit" maybe it was that finger which became infected.

It was (I was at that show too - terrific night)

The empty stadium dates were the film overdubs to the recorded tracks! Ruby Tuesday for one.

whats the deal between the steel wheels stage design and the urban jungle stage set up.i was not even aware that they used a different stage for the european tour of 1990 anyone can shed some light on this.even a photo of the urban jungle stage please ?

Steel Wheels:
[www.stufish.com]

Urban Jungle:
[www.stufish.com]

notice the price of the ticket ,if I remember Cd's were about half that price at the time, no sign of the deaded service charge either

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Really interested to read the review posted by LOGIE and noting the reference to Keith's allegedly shambolic performance. It appears that even 17 years ago he was provoking the sort of comments that have been so apparent on recent threads (toned down for wide publication and possible lawsuits, of course!).