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 04 July 2008 23:17 BST

Stones to paint Twickenham black

Sunday, 20 Aug 2006 21:23
The band were all smiles as two million attended the free Copacabana beach concert
Veteran rockers Rolling Stones are all set to begin the UK leg of their worldwide tour with tonight's performance at Twickenham stadium.

Earlier this month lead singer Sir Mick Jagger was sufficiently laid low with laryngitis for the band to cancel two gigs in Spain, but a Stones spokesman said that the 63-year-old frontman had made a full recovery for today's concert.

The Bigger Bang tour, which began last year in Toronto, Canada, will see the band play at more than 100 venues by the time it draws to a close in Los Angeles in November.

But the tour has been beset by other health problems, with guitarist Keith Richards' decision to climb and then fall out of a free while on holiday in Fiji leading to 15 cancelled shows.

The band has another gig at Twickenham on Tuesday before playing at Glasgow's Hampden Park, Sheffield and the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff.

Highlights of the Rolling Stones' tour so far include a free concert for about two million people on Brazil's Copacabana beach and a gig in Shanghai in April, the band's first-ever Chinese appearance, although the government censored some of the group's more colourful lyrics, and a similar fate befell the band at this year's Super Bowl in the US.End of story


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