Short phone interview with Mick on Radio 2 at 8.45 this morning - haven't got much time as I am at work, but:

Look out for announcements on facebook

Gigs "definitely before July 2013 and "maybe as early as the end of this year"

Should be available on Listen Again before long.

To Green Lady: Thanks!
To Mick: That was a little vague.

Mick being very cagey answering questions as usual. Looks like D & G was written by him - also he is clearly in France right now.

so looks like the announcement will hit twitter and FB first ?

They've posted a link to a clip. Doesn't work yet though :
[www.bbc.co.uk]

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They've posted a link to a clip. Doesn't work yet though :
[www.bbc.co.uk]

It does now. Mick sounds good, and Chris Evans does a good job ... very relaxed. Grand stuff !

[ I want to shout, but I can hardly speak ]



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no sound, does not work in holland
jeroen

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to Green Lady
Could you please state here what Mick has said???
jeroen

Mick sounded on great form!Sounded like he was in a bit of a rush.Talked about Clapton selling a painting for 21 million,after buying it for 2.Mentioned he had cereal and eggs for breakfast!Said there will be an announcement on facebook,and confirmed there will be small number of gigs before the end of the year,and mentioned a tour next year.Said he had written doom and gloom,but said he could not take credit for all the songwriting or he might be in trouble.

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Said he had written doom and gloom,but said he could not take credit for all the songwriting or he might be in trouble.

That's because Chuck Leavell's songs might be featured! Let's hope (fingers x'd)

It's on YouTube

Sorry I thought it was the interview.............





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Sorry not to be able to go into more detail - heard the interview by chance while driving to work where I am not supposed to be using non-work-related internet and not able to access sound clips or YouTube. Chris Evans started by talking about the first play of Doom & Gloom, when he said they had asked if Mick could come in to push the button but was told by the Stones management that "they don't do mornings" - however, he'd just had a phone call from a certain Mr M Jagger...

Anyway, it looks as if it's readily available now (that's iorr teamwork!) and in any case it's been over taken by other events (Yippee - and if there's a ticket sale on Friday I might stand a chance - I can't book tickets from here either, but I don't work Fridays.)

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The same here in Germany, but it's only the clip that doesn't work.

try the whole 3hour radio show just above the clip. go to 2:15:00

that worked for me.

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The same here in Germany, but it's only the clip that doesn't work.

try the whole 3hour radio show just above the clip. go to 2:15:00

that worked for me.

Thanks open-g....I will check it out...when I'm sober got a bit confused.. about the ticket prices

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This is Not the BBC interview but it's still most recent Jagger interview
[www.standard.co.uk]

"The Rolling Stones today announced two special London shows to mark their 50th anniversary — as Sir Mick Jagger confessed that when the band started out he thought they wouldn’t last more than two years.

In an exclusive interview with the Standard, the singer ended months of speculation by revealing the milestone will be marked with two gigs at the O2 arena on November 25 and 29.

They will be the Stones’ first shows together in five years, and two more dates are scheduled in New York in December.

The band’s first live performance was in July 1962 at the Marquee Club, a basement nightspot in Oxford Street. Sir Mick said: “London is super appropriate. It’s a full circle because we started out in London and that’s our home town.”

He admitted reaching 50 years was “crazy”, adding: “You think it’s going to last a couple of years. At the time [in the Sixties] that seemed like a perfectly rational thing to say — why would you think it would go on for any longer? That was about the shelf life of a pop group at that time. Obviously at the beginning you didn’t have any inclination, it’s a nightmare idea really that you’d do anything for 50 years at that age.

“I think the Rolling Stones are kind of quite irreverent about it in a way. I don’t think we take it very seriously and we joke about it really.

“It doesn’t exactly feel like your golden wedding. I think it kind of feels like a bit of a f*** off moment to be honest, and I don’t think we’ve laughed at it enough. I think one of the reasons is that we don’t really believe that amount of time has gone by so quickly, and here we are, still here.”

He has been rehearsing a pool of 60 songs with Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts in Paris. They have “been in touch” with former bass player Bill Wyman and hope that he can join them on stage as a guest performer for the O2 dates. The shows will feature a custom-built set, with a stage based on their lips and tongue logo.

It is “very touching” that the band still creates such a buzz, said Sir Mick.

“It’s great people are still interested. It’s very touching that people want to know about us, because normally you’d expect you’d have to create a big sort of noise about this to get anyone interested in a band that’s been around for 50 years and that has essentially become part of the furniture.”

He added: “We’re looking forward to it but there’s a lot of prep to do. We’re hunkering down and trying to make sure everything’s greased and ready for action, and as good as it could be.”

The band have marked their anniversary by releasing a new greatest hits collection called GRRR! with two new songs, Doom and Gloom and One More Shot."

Thanks proudmary.

When I read this line:

“I think the Rolling Stones are kind of quite irreverent about it in a way. I don’t think we take it very seriously and we joke about it really."

I can help but thinking of GRRR! cover.... which I think perfectly matches with the idea I have of The Stones, and these kind of 'golden weddings'. "Gloom and Doom" is another argument to along the line: "don't expect us settling down and do some grandpapa music for you"...

- Doxa