Rolling Stones Tickets

Celebrating 60 years of game-changing rock and roll, The Rolling Stones have announced three huge UK dates for summer 2022, performing at British Summertime Hyde Park on Saturday 25 June and Sunday 03 July, plus a very special show at Liverpool's Anfield Stadium on 09 June.

Clichés and high praise get thrown and thrashed around the world of rock music more than scratched and seasoned old guitars. But when it comes to The Rolling Stones, it really is hard to overstate their significance and influence on popular music history. Arriving on the scene in the early 60s as an edgier and naughtier alternative to The Beatles, The Stones brought the blues into rock with clout, grit and a visceral energy and swagger that would define the common understanding of a rock star for years to come.

Formed when old childhood friends Mick Jagger (vocals) and Keith Richards (guitar) were reunited by mutual friend and bassist Dick Taylor, and joined multi-instrumentalist Bryan Jones, pianist Ian Stewart and drummer Mick Avory, the then-called Rollin' Stones had their first gig at the Marquee Club in 1962. Taylor and Avory soon left the band and were replaced by Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts respectively, forming the classic line-up we know today.

With their free-flowing locks and likely lad charm, some of the music business saw the opportunity to market The Stones as a kind of bad boy alternative to The Beatles, with their sharp suits and neat haircuts.. In 1963 signed a generous deal with Decca Records, releasing a cover of ‘Come On’ by Chuck Berry (though the band weren’t keen on performing this live). In May 1964 The Rolling Stones released their debut, self-titled LP, which was appropriately subtitled England's Newest Hit Makers on the American release.

Though they soon began to work their way up the charts both sides of the Atlantic, it was the release of rebellious ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ in 1965 that would elevate them to new levels, as Jagger and Richards’ writing partnership continued to create magic. In the years that followed The Rolling Stones’ writing output was prolific, releasing instant classics including: the psychedelic Aftermath (1966), which featured ‘Paint It, Black’ and ‘Under My Thumb’; the piano-pop centric Between The Buttons (1967), with the likes of ‘Ruby Tuesday’ and ‘Let’s Spend The Night Together’; and of course the Jimmy Miller-produced Beggars Banquet, which with tunes such as ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ and ‘Street Fighting Man’, ushered in the era of World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band.

Though this self-proclaimed statement used to promote a tour at the end of the 60s may have seemed premature to some given they’d been a band for less than ten years, their revolutionary live performances — with their groundbreakingly huge audio set-up and Jagger’s frenzied on-stage gyrating —  were proof enough. Their 1969 Hyde Park show, which pulled in somewhere between 250,000 and half a million people, would go down in history, as one writer put it, as “a great and epoch-making event in British social history”.