A great 2003 concert in one of the ten temples of international soccer, San Siro stadium: the Rolling Stones! Of the four Stones concerts that I’ve seen so far (the first one in Rome in 1990 with Bill Wyman on bass guitar), this one was perhaps the best, with Mick Jagger on the eve of 60 years of age in splendid form (he had MORE agility on stage than Totti on a soccer pitch! And he STILL does at age 64 and counting). Richards, Watts and Wood were also great. The back-drop was magnificent too. There were roughly 60,000 of us that night to take in Mr. Jumpin’ Jack Flash (the story behind that title is apparently the following: early one morning after a wild night of booze and no doubt also drugs, Jagger and Richards were crashed out at Richards’s place. They were half asleep when all of a sudden a loud “thumping” noise woke them up. Startled, Jagger asked what the noise was. Richards said, “Oh, that’s my gardener Jack. It’s Jumpin’ Jack (n.b. he was wearing heavy rain boots as he was walking around the garden)”. The “Flash” was later added to the song. All pics by M. Rimati except for the collage of Jagger and Richards).
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