On This Day 16/07/1990 Rolling Stones

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On this day, 16 July 1990, legendary rockers the Rolling Stones played Cardiff’s National Stadium, Cardiff Arms Park, on their Urban Jungle tour. The concert was original to be played on the 11 July but Keith Richards had injured a finger and therefore the concert was postponed until 16th July.

These would be the last live concerts for the band with original member Bill Wyman on bass guitar. This tour would also be the longest the band had ever done up to that point, playing over twice as many shows as their standard tour length from the 1960s and 1970s.

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The Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger – lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, percussion

Keith Richards – guitar, vocals

Ronnie Wood – guitar

Bill Wyman – bass guitar

Charlie Watts – drums

Additional musicians

Matt Clifford – keyboards, backing vocals, percussion, French horn

Bobby Keys – saxophone

Chuck Leavell – keyboards, backing vocals and musical director

Bernard Fowler – backing vocals, percussion

Lorelei McBroom – backing vocals

Sophia Jones – backing vocals

The Uptown Horns

Arno Hecht – saxophone

Bob Funk – trombone

Crispin Cioe – saxophone

Paul Litteral – trumpet

On This Day 16/06/1999 Bill Wyman

On this day, 16 June 1999, former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman played Cardiff’s St David’s Hall on his Anyway The Wind Blows Tour.

Billed as Bill Wyman and the Rhythm Kings the band included Georgie Fame. Gary Brooker. Albert Lee. Terry Taylor. Beverley Skeete. Graham Broad. Frank Mead. Nick Payn. Martin Taylor. Melanie Redmond and Keeley Smith.

Born 24 October 1936 he achieved international fame as the bassist for the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1993. In 1989, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Rolling Stones. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. He has worked producing records and films, and has scored music for films and television.

Wyman has kept a journal since he was a child during World War II, and has published seven books. He is also a photographer, and his works have been displayed in galleries around the world.

Wyman is an amateur archaeologist and enjoys metal detecting. He designed and marketed a patented "Bill Wyman signature metal detector", which he has used to find relics in the English countryside dating back to the era of the Roman Empire.

In July 1981, Wyman's solo single "(Si Si) Je Suis un Rock Star" became a top-20 hit in many countries. Also in 1981, Wyman composed the soundtrack album Green Ice for the Ryan O'Neal/Omar Sharif film of the same name.[citation needed] In the mid-1980s, he composed music for two films by Italian director Dario Argento: Phenomena (1985) and Terror at the Opera (1987).

On this day 08/10/1966 Rolling Stones

On this day, 8 October 1966, legendary rockers the Rolling Stones played two shows at Cardiff’s Capitol Theatre.

Support was provided by Ike & Tina Turner,The Yardbirds,Peter Jay and The New Jaywalkers, Jimmy Thomas, Bobby John, Long John Baldry and The Kings of Rhythm Orchestra.

The tour commenced on September 23 and concluded on October 9, 1966.

The band had recently released their Aftermath album, the first Stones LP to be composed entirely of original material by the group, considered by music scholars to be an artistic breakthrough for the Rolling Stones.

Brian Jones emerged as a key contributor and experimented with instruments not usually associated with popular music, including the sitar, Appalachian dulcimer, Japanese koto and marimbas, as well as guitar and harmonica.

Along with Jones' instrumental textures, the Stones incorporated a wider range of chords and stylistic elements beyond their Chicago blues and R&B influences, such as pop, folk, country, psychedelia, Baroque and Middle Eastern music.

Influenced by intense love affairs and a demanding touring itinerary, Jagger and Richards wrote the album around psychodramatic themes of love, sex, desire, power and dominance, hate, obsession, modern society and rock stardom.

Women feature as prominent characters in their often dark, sarcastic, casually offensive lyrics.

SETLIST

"Paint It, Black"

"Under My Thumb"

"Get Off of My Cloud"

"Lady Jane"

"Not Fade Away"

"The Last Time"

"19th Nervous Breakdown"

"Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?

"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

On this day, 16/07/1990 Rolling Stones

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On this day, 16 July 1990, legendary rockers the Rolling Stones played Cardiff’s National Stadium, Cardiff Arms Park, on their Urban Jungle tour. The concert was original to be played on the 11 July but Keith Richards had injured a finger and therefore the concert was postponed until 16th July.

These would be the last live concerts for the band with original member Bill Wyman on bass guitar. This tour would also be the longest the band had ever done up to that point, playing over twice as many shows as their standard tour length from the 1960s and 1970s.

The Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger – lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, percussion

Keith Richards – guitar, vocals

Ronnie Wood – guitar

Bill Wyman – bass guitar

Charlie Watts – drums

Additional musicians

Matt Clifford – keyboards, backing vocals, percussion, French horn

Bobby Keys – saxophone

Chuck Leavell – keyboards, backing vocals and musical director

Bernard Fowler – backing vocals, percussion

Lorelei McBroom – backing vocals

Sophia Jones – backing vocals

The Uptown Horns

Arno Hecht – saxophone

Bob Funk – trombone

Crispin Cioe – saxophone

Paul Litteral – trumpet

Setlist

Start Me Up

Sad Sad Sad

Harlem Shuffle

(Bob & Earl cover)

Tumbling Dice

Miss You

Almost Hear You Sigh

Ruby Tuesday

Rock and a Hard Place

Mixed Emotions

Honky Tonk Women

Midnight Rambler

You Can't Always Get What You Want

Can't Be Seen

(Keith Richards on lead vocals)

Happy

(Keith Richards on lead vocals)

Paint It Black

2000 Light Years From Home

Sympathy for the Devil

Street Fighting Man

Gimme Shelter

It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (but I Like It)

Brown Sugar

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Encore:

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction