The Rolling Stones fans are reminiscing over a “chaotic” 1960s tour which had the band rivalling The Beatles.
Mick Jagger and the group pushed themselves hard on stage and in the studio during the mid and late-1960s, releasing eleven studio albums in just five years. Fans still appreciate the monumental effort, which saw the likes of Out of Our Heads, Aftermath, and Let it Bleed released. Taking to a Reddit post collating photographs of the band in the 1960s, fans were left stunned by the work the group, featuring Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts, were putting out.
One fan wrote: “Wild times. They were competing against the Beatles and I think their early career was the most creative, musically. Sure, their golden era was that stretch from about 69-74, but with Jones in the picture they made a lot of their biggest songs.”
Another fan added: “Incredible to look back on just how chaotic and small those tours were. Like imaging the Stones playing two shows in one day or playing small-ish cities like Worcester, MA anymore.” Fans reminisced about The Rolling Stones’ wilder touring days, with one adding: “Statesboro, GA. Played at the Ga Southern auditorium. How in the hell they picked that location instead of Atlanta or Savannah…”
Photographs from their touring days also featured a Rolling Stones: On Tour ’65 album cover. The album featured performances of Satisfaction, I’m Alright and Everybody Needs Somebody. Touring through the mid-1960s as chaos for The ‘Stones, who were once ran off the stage in Blackpool and hurried out of the venue.
Screaming fans greeted the fearsome live act but the crowd got “rowdy” according to one person who was at the show. One fan, Eileen Cornes, who attended the show, said: “I was on holiday in Blackpool. Three quarters of the way through the concert the venue seemed to get rowdy.
“Our Scottish friend advised us to take off our shoes and run to the back of the venue as she feared that there was going to be trouble ahead. I hesitated at first, not really sensing danger, and she screamed at me to move. We all went back to the hotel. The following day we found out the Stones’ piano had been thrown off the stage into the crowd.”
Further memories from Peter Fielding of The Executives, a Blackpool band who opened for The Rolling Stones that night, recalled bottles being thrown at Jagger and the rest of the band. Crowd members then “pulled all the Stones’ gear off and kicked it to pieces.”
