“I don't want to do it. Everyone else does. I don't like playing outdoors, and I certainly don't like festivals. I've always thought they're nothing to do with playing. Playing is what I'm doing at the weekend . That's how I was brought up. But that's me, personally. When you're a band … you do anything and everything. But Glastonbury, it's old hat really. I never liked the hippy thing to start with. It's not what I'd like to do for a weekend, I can tell you.”
Charlie Watts - The Guardian. 4 April 2013
44 years after the free Hyde Park gig in London on 5 July 1969, some folk in the UK have suggested the rather deluded romantic idea that this years appearances at the Glastonbury Festival followed by Hyde Park (no it won't be free) might just be the farewell gigs for The Stones, but they'd be well wide of the mark as a further 18 date tour of the US is announced.
Oh yes you can be sure the circus will continue until they drop... er scratch that, Mick or Keef drop.
Here's the real Rolling Stones in halcyon days. Watch out for Charlie Watts appearing as a well
dressed beatnik in the first few minutes and Brian Jones playing sitar. Has to be circa 1967.
