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    A Rolling Stones Memory That's Lasted 50 Years

    At the first Stones concert I saw, at Madison Square Garden in 1972, I discovered you CAN always get what you want

    By Jon Friedman
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    July 25, 2022
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    The Rolling Stones' 1972 tour was bigger than even the youth of America. After ten years of playing together, the Stones had somehow become the number one attraction in the world ...

    Completely. They were royalty. No, even better, they were kings. Undeniably. And it was to America they came to receive their crowns. (From "A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones" by Robert Greenfield.)

    And I was there to see it!

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    The Rolling Stones performing in Helsinki, 1970\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Credit: Photo by Kari Pulkkinen/Museoviraston Kuvakokoelmat

    I'll never forget the first time I saw the Rolling Stones on stage: Tuesday afternoon, July 25, 1972, at Madison Square Garden.

    Inside the hall, I remember sitting impatiently through the warm-up act, though the kid who opened the show was pretty darned good. His name was Stevie Wonder.

    The memory remains burned in my brain as the most exciting rock and roll concert that I have ever seen.

    Yes, it has been 50 years. Still, I can remember every detail: feeling the tingles at the prospect of seeing the so-hyped show and shaking my head at the phalanx of security guards for a rock concert \u2014 the kind of protection that the President of the United States gets.

    Inside the hall, I remember sitting impatiently through the warm-up act, though the 21-year-old kid who opened the show was pretty darned good. His name was Stevie Wonder.

    Seriously, can you imagine? Stevie Wonder was the opening act! That tells you, right there, how big the Stones were in 1972.

    The Stones would be wrapping up their six-week North American jaunt in New York the following day \u2014 on Mick Jagger's 29th birthday, no less. I had been following the tour on rock and roll radio, marveling at the rioting fans, and at the Stones' drug bust in Rhode Island.

    Start Me Up

    I sat in the second row \u2014 albeit behind the stage. Still, I saw and heard everything.

    Yes, Mick Jagger, the consummate pro, was locked in and superb. But Keith Richards was the Stone I couldn't take my eyes off of. As Robert Greenfield wrote in his excellent book:

    "Some nights it was though they brought Keith to the hall in a cage and his hour-and-a-half on stage was the only freedom he was going to get ... He was dangerous and unpredictable, which made him exciting to watch ... Unlike Jagger, who had a never-ending bag of stage tricks ... Keith was right there, all the time, playing for his life. He possessed none of Jagger's aesthetic distance. It was never a performance for him. Keith was always putting out all he was worth, doing the best he knew how at the moment."

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    The Stones were electrifying. They \u00a0opened with a scorching version of "Brown Sugar," followed by "Bitch," "Rocks Off," "Gimme Shelter," "Happy" and "Tumbling Dice."

    Talk about high energy! Charlie Watts' drums and Bill Wyman's bass boomed around the big hall. Mick Jagger sang and danced and pranced brilliantly. Guitarists Richards and Mick Taylor were on fire. The two horn players punched holes in the air.\u00a0

    Why the Stones Meant So Much

    At the\u00a0time of the concert at Madison Square Garden, the Stones were at a creative peak that few bands can ever hope to match.

    They had released, in succession, the remarkable albums "Beggars Banquet," "Let It Bleed," "Get Yer Ya-Yas Out," "Sticky Fingers" and, in the spring of 1972, "Exile on Main Street," a blistering double album that reached No. 1 on the charts.

    The Stones had a lot on the line, too. They were staging their first U.S. tour in three years, since the tragic event at Altamont in northern California in December 1969, when an 18-year-old man was killed right in front of the stage.

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    From left to right, the late Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood \u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Credit: Mark Seliger

    Altamont was the flip side of the peace-and-love Woodstock festival. Of course, this happened at a Stones concert. The band, basking in its outlaw public image, personified the allure and danger of sex, drugs and rock and roll more acutely than any other.

    The Stones had always been the bad boys of rock. Back in the summer of 1965, when parents and grandmothers choked up to the Beatles' song "Yesterday," the Stones were proclaiming, "I can't get no satisfaction."

    I can vividly remember blasting the Stones' song "Get Off My Cloud," on my parents' stereo and hearing my mother shouting, "Turn off that screaming!" That scene must've played out in living rooms around the world.

    By embracing "Satisfaction," "Paint It Black," Let's Spend the Night Together," "19th Nervous Breakdown," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Honky Tonk Woman" and other Stones' swaggering, rebellious and raunchy classics, we knew that WE lived on the right side of the generation gap.

    No Expectations

    The concert meant so much to me, too, because it occurred when I was crossing the Rubicon, advancing rather unsteadily from carefree kid to young adult.

    It was the summer before my senior year of high school \u2014 time to apply to colleges and prepare to flee the nest. Where would I decide to go? (Crucially: What university would admit me, my B-plus average and unremarkable SAT score?)

    The Stones gave me an identity. Full disclosure: I was a nerd. I played records, not a musical instrument in a rock and roll band. I played intramurals because I wasn't good enough to make a sports team at school. The classic, insecure adolescent, I was anything but a heartthrob to boot. But when I listened to my Stones records, I felt cool.

    A Perfect Storm

    In looking back, you might say that that Stones concert represented a perfect storm for me.

    The Stones gave me an identity. Full disclosure: I was a nerd.

    I was seeing "The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World," as the Stones were called in those halcyon days. I was attending a concert in "The World's Most Famous Arena," as Madison Square Garden is now known. I felt privileged. I felt lucky. I felt special.

    I've gone on to see plenty of rock and roll's heroes on stage: Bob Dylan and the Band, Paul McCartney, the Who, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, the Kinks, Neil Young, the Grateful Dead and many others. And yes, I've even seen the Rolling Stones twice more, in 1994 and 2012.

    But I've never experienced the same level of sheer excitement as I did that day in 1972 when I saw the Stones.

    As I write this, I can picture many members of the Next Avenue audience sharing my enthusiasm. Indeed, I suspect that many of you must also have an indelible concert memory from your youth.

    Let's face it. We rock and roll kids can only feel those kinds of tingles once, right?

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    \n\tGet ready for “Sweet Sounds of Heaven.” After announcing their 24th studio album Hackney Diamonds, the Rolling Stones have released a preview of their new single featuring Lady Gaga and Stevie Wonder. On the track, Gaga sings and Wonder plays keys and piano.

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    \n\tThe single is the second release from the album, following “Angry,” which was dropped on Sep. 6 along with the news of their new album, which is due Oct. 20. The 16-second teaser for “Sweet Sounds of Heaven” was released on the band’s Instagram, the post also revealing that the song would be available on Sep. 28 at 5pm BST. 

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    \n\tHackney Diamonds is the band’s first full album of original music since 2005’s A Bigger Bang, and their first since the death of drummer Charlie Watts. Jagger explained that the title is slang for what happens to windshields when someone gets rowdy on a night out.\n\n\t

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    \n\tThe album not only features guest appearances by Stevie Wonder and Lady Gaga, but also Paul McCartney and Elton John. McCartney plays bass on “Bite My Head Off,” and John plays piano on “Get Close” and “Live by the Sword.”\n\n\n

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    \n\tThe band recorded two tracks, “Mess It Up” and “Live by the Sword,” before Watts’ death, and the latter features the return of the band’s original bassist, Bill Wyman. Wyman left the group in the early Nineties.

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    \n\t“We wouldn’t be putting this out now if we didn’t really like it,” Jagger said. “We didn’t want to make just any record and put it out. So we wanted to make a record. Before we went in, we said we all want to make a record that we really love, ourselves. People may like it, other people may not. But we must say this, we are quite pleased with it. … We hope you’ll like it.”

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    In 1972, The Rolling Stones had worked prolifically for ten solid years, earmarking a longevity that left The Beatles behind in their wake. By then, keyboardist Stevie Wonder was rising on the pop scene, and the two titans joined together to work on a joint tour. Given that it included Keith Richards, he probably enjoyed the joint tour.

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    Wonder opened the concerts, but the tour was notable as it was The Rolling Stones\u2019 American tour since their performance at Altamont Speedway in 1969. They were hungry for success, driven by Mick Jagger\u2019s disembodied yelps, and Mick Taylor\u2018s barrelling guitar performances. Clearly, they saw Wonder as both a peer and potential competition.

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    \u201cThat\u2019s when Stevie was really young and full of energy, jumping up and down on stage,\u201d recalled Marshall Chess, the Stones\u2019 executive manager. \u201cHe and Mick were dancing on stage together, then somebody came out and put a whipped cream pie in Mick\u2019s face. It was crazy. The building was actually vibrating. You could feel it in the concrete.\u201d

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    Clearly, the feeling was mutual, and Wonder began introducing songs into his set that were longer, and infinitely more coated in the trappings of funk. It was getting harder to track concerts, as the band found themselves playing at supper clubs, as well as playing at the stadiums and clubs that had long been their bread and butter. Wonder was enjoying the process, attention and productivity, perhaps bolstered by the presence of Jagger.

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    \u201cMotown was trying to break Stevie bigger than he\u2019d ever been,\u201d said Chess. \u201cIt was a great thing for the Stones because Mick and Keith just loved Stevie. It was a great thing for Stevie because it showed him to this whole other white audience, the Stones\u2019 audience.\u201d

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    The Stones had accrued an audience that was predominantly white, although their personal well \u2013 like many other bands from the 1960s \u2013 stemmed from black music. It was fitting, therefore, that a singer of colour should perform before an audience of caucasian members as if re-focusing the attention on the origins of the band\u2019s celebrated work.

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    The performances stood as a commentary on international relations between people all over the world, as the shows presented a collection of bandmates who were English and American. Wonder had spent 12 years playing to Motown package crowds, feathering hits that were known to fans of The Temptations and The Supremes.

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    The STP tour was said to be a triumph, and the acts considered releasing a live album that showcased Wonder\u2019s talents and the band\u2019s. It didn\u2019t materialise, but the memories certainly lingered among those who watched the superstars.

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    Wonder benefitted from the concerts, as was evident from the recordings that followed, but some of his pop DNA slipped into Jagger\u2019s songwriting. Indeed, it\u2019s possible to discern from \u2018Time Waits for No One\u2019 a whimsical quality that was often heard in Wonder\u2019s work, as it is possible to hear a jauntiness on \u2018Start Me Up\u2019 that likely stemmed from Music Of My Mind.

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    Jagger\u2019s antenna was growing wider by the day, and the band started engaging in such far-flung genres as reggae, jazz, blues and folk tinted rock.
    Richards was arrested for assaulting a journalist, leading Wonder to play both sets in Boston in an effort to calm an angry audience who were growing impatient for The Stones to appear.

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    Wonder and Wonderlove \u2013 as his backing band were known \u2013 managed to calm them down with a series of blindingly funky licks that demonstrated the muscle, acumen and technical skill of the band. By the time the tour was finished, everyone walked away, fresher from the experience.

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    Wonder espoused the virtues of the tour in an interview with The New York Times. The good times, he said, overshadowed the bad ones, and the sets gave him the chance to play his own material as he saw fit. He was the master of his own destination.

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    Music, Wonder felt, was similar to a religious mosaic, and the ambitions of music were designed to bring the spiritual practices in place. He performs \u2018Uptight\u2019, which later formed the basis for Oasis highlight \u2018Step Out\u2019, and The Stones continue to perform \u2018(I Can\u2019t Get No) Satisfaction\u2019, two songs the artists performed to celebrate Mick Jagger\u2019s 29th birthday.

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    More recently, The Rolling Stones experienced a personal tragedy, having lost drummer and mainstay Charlie Watts. It remains to be seen how their new drummer will change the flow and the groove of their work, but that\u2019s not to say that the band\u2019s performances in 1972 weren\u2019t funky in their precision and attack.

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    50 years on, both Wonder and Jagger are still singing to their hearts\u2019 content, and although they might not have the commitment or grit that they once had, the artists are carrying the flag for future bands to live up to.

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      At the first Stones concert I saw, at Madison Square Garden in 1972, I discovered you CAN always get what you want

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      The Rolling Stones' 1972 tour was bigger than even the youth of America. After ten years of playing together, the Stones had somehow become the number one attraction in the world ...

      Completely. They were royalty. No, even better, they were kings. Undeniably. And it was to America they came to receive their crowns. (From "A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones" by Robert Greenfield.)

      And I was there to see it!

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      I'll never forget the first time I saw the Rolling Stones on stage: Tuesday afternoon, July 25, 1972, at Madison Square Garden.

      Inside the hall, I remember sitting impatiently through the warm-up act, though the kid who opened the show was pretty darned good. His name was Stevie Wonder.

      The memory remains burned in my brain as the most exciting rock and roll concert that I have ever seen.

      Yes, it has been 50 years. Still, I can remember every detail: feeling the tingles at the prospect of seeing the so-hyped show and shaking my head at the phalanx of security guards for a rock concert \u2014 the kind of protection that the President of the United States gets.

      Inside the hall, I remember sitting impatiently through the warm-up act, though the 21-year-old kid who opened the show was pretty darned good. His name was Stevie Wonder.

      Seriously, can you imagine? Stevie Wonder was the opening act! That tells you, right there, how big the Stones were in 1972.

      The Stones would be wrapping up their six-week North American jaunt in New York the following day \u2014 on Mick Jagger's 29th birthday, no less. I had been following the tour on rock and roll radio, marveling at the rioting fans, and at the Stones' drug bust in Rhode Island.

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      I sat in the second row \u2014 albeit behind the stage. Still, I saw and heard everything.

      Yes, Mick Jagger, the consummate pro, was locked in and superb. But Keith Richards was the Stone I couldn't take my eyes off of. As Robert Greenfield wrote in his excellent book:

      "Some nights it was though they brought Keith to the hall in a cage and his hour-and-a-half on stage was the only freedom he was going to get ... He was dangerous and unpredictable, which made him exciting to watch ... Unlike Jagger, who had a never-ending bag of stage tricks ... Keith was right there, all the time, playing for his life. He possessed none of Jagger's aesthetic distance. It was never a performance for him. Keith was always putting out all he was worth, doing the best he knew how at the moment."

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      The Stones were electrifying. They \u00a0opened with a scorching version of "Brown Sugar," followed by "Bitch," "Rocks Off," "Gimme Shelter," "Happy" and "Tumbling Dice."

      Talk about high energy! Charlie Watts' drums and Bill Wyman's bass boomed around the big hall. Mick Jagger sang and danced and pranced brilliantly. Guitarists Richards and Mick Taylor were on fire. The two horn players punched holes in the air.\u00a0

      Why the Stones Meant So Much

      At the\u00a0time of the concert at Madison Square Garden, the Stones were at a creative peak that few bands can ever hope to match.

      They had released, in succession, the remarkable albums "Beggars Banquet," "Let It Bleed," "Get Yer Ya-Yas Out," "Sticky Fingers" and, in the spring of 1972, "Exile on Main Street," a blistering double album that reached No. 1 on the charts.

      The Stones had a lot on the line, too. They were staging their first U.S. tour in three years, since the tragic event at Altamont in northern California in December 1969, when an 18-year-old man was killed right in front of the stage.

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      Altamont was the flip side of the peace-and-love Woodstock festival. Of course, this happened at a Stones concert. The band, basking in its outlaw public image, personified the allure and danger of sex, drugs and rock and roll more acutely than any other.

      The Stones had always been the bad boys of rock. Back in the summer of 1965, when parents and grandmothers choked up to the Beatles' song "Yesterday," the Stones were proclaiming, "I can't get no satisfaction."

      I can vividly remember blasting the Stones' song "Get Off My Cloud," on my parents' stereo and hearing my mother shouting, "Turn off that screaming!" That scene must've played out in living rooms around the world.

      By embracing "Satisfaction," "Paint It Black," Let's Spend the Night Together," "19th Nervous Breakdown," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Honky Tonk Woman" and other Stones' swaggering, rebellious and raunchy classics, we knew that WE lived on the right side of the generation gap.

      No Expectations

      The concert meant so much to me, too, because it occurred when I was crossing the Rubicon, advancing rather unsteadily from carefree kid to young adult.

      It was the summer before my senior year of high school \u2014 time to apply to colleges and prepare to flee the nest. Where would I decide to go? (Crucially: What university would admit me, my B-plus average and unremarkable SAT score?)

      The Stones gave me an identity. Full disclosure: I was a nerd. I played records, not a musical instrument in a rock and roll band. I played intramurals because I wasn't good enough to make a sports team at school. The classic, insecure adolescent, I was anything but a heartthrob to boot. But when I listened to my Stones records, I felt cool.

      A Perfect Storm

      In looking back, you might say that that Stones concert represented a perfect storm for me.

      The Stones gave me an identity. Full disclosure: I was a nerd.

      I was seeing "The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World," as the Stones were called in those halcyon days. I was attending a concert in "The World's Most Famous Arena," as Madison Square Garden is now known. I felt privileged. I felt lucky. I felt special.

      I've gone on to see plenty of rock and roll's heroes on stage: Bob Dylan and the Band, Paul McCartney, the Who, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, the Kinks, Neil Young, the Grateful Dead and many others. And yes, I've even seen the Rolling Stones twice more, in 1994 and 2012.

      But I've never experienced the same level of sheer excitement as I did that day in 1972 when I saw the Stones.

      As I write this, I can picture many members of the Next Avenue audience sharing my enthusiasm. Indeed, I suspect that many of you must also have an indelible concert memory from your youth.

      Let's face it. We rock and roll kids can only feel those kinds of tingles once, right?

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      Stevie Wonder has just come on stage to play an encore with The Stones and to wish Mick Jagger a happy 29th birthday. Even the nosebleed seats stomp and cheer as the two groups tear through Wonder’s 1965 hit “Uptight (Everything’s Gonna Be Alright)” and then the Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”.

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      “That’s when Stevie was really young and full of energy, jumping up and down on stage,” recalls Marshall Chess, the Stones’ executive manager. “He and Mick were dancing on stage together, then somebody came out and put a whipped cream pie in Mick’s face. It was crazy. The building was actually vibrating. You could feel it in the concrete.”

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      The STP jaunt was the Stones’ first American tour since their performance at Altamont Speedway in 1969. Wonder, as their opening act, was likewise trying to leave that decade behind, along with his image as the clean-cut teen phenomenon behind “I Was Made To Love Her” and “For Once In My Life”.

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      Prior to the Stones tour, Wonder had faced some difficult audiences as he struggled to redefine himself, introducing longer, heavier, funkier songs to his setlist. \u201cSometimes we would get these gigs at supper clubs, and we\u2019d show up in bellbottom jeans and fringe jackets,\u201d recalls David Sanborn, who played saxophone in backing band Wonderlove. \u201cEverybody else would be in tuxes and tails. Stevie was adamant about playing the new stuff, so it could get tense at times. Sometimes the audience was just not having it. They got restless because they weren\u2019t hearing what they wanted to hear, what they had paid their money to hear. We understood that, so we did play \u2018Signed, Sealed, Delivered I\u2019m Yours\u2019 and \u2018If You Really Love Me\u2019. We always played the shit out of them.\u201d

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      Winning over Stones fans wasn\u2019t much easier, but Wonder drew on 12 years of experience \u2013 more than half his life \u2013 working crowds as part of Motown package tours with The Temptations, The Supremes, and other label acts. When the Stones were arrested in Rhode Island after Richards assaulted a journalist, Stevie and Wonderlove played a double set in Boston that night to calm the audience \u2013 who grew rowdy when the Stones looked like no-shows.

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      The STP tour was such a success and the chemistry between the two acts so palpable that they collaborated on a joint double live album, with one LP devoted to Wonder\u2019s set and the other to the Stones. Even though the record never materialised, the tour did exactly what he needed it to do. \u201cThat\u2019s when his popularity just jumped,\u201d confirms Deniece Williams, who toured as a member of Wonderlove.

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      The Stones tour helped usher in a new imperial phase in Stevie Wonder\u2019s career, as he transformed himself over a string of bold and progressive albums beginning with 1972\u2019s Music Of My Mind album and culminating in 1976\u2019s Songs In The Key Of Life. Together, these albums are as much about Wonder\u2019s creative development as they are, from another perspective, about his attempts to defy the Motown assembly-line approach to writing, recording, and touring. \u201cAt Motown, Stevie never really got a chance to be himself,\u201d says Robert Margouleff, who played a crucial role in Wonder\u2019s transformation from teen idol to visionary rock star. \u201cHe was on a quest to be his own man.\u201d

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