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The core trio of The Rolling Stones are old, actually pretty darn old, even if 80 is the new 70. The Glimmer Twins — Mick Jagger and Keith Richards — are both 80 and Ronnie Wood, the youngest of the trio, just turned 77, making them all very veteran senior citizens.
In a wry bit of (presumably lucrative) self-realization with a dash of irony, the band’s current Hackney Diamonds Tour is sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons.
Joke if you will. The Stones are used to it, going all the way back to wisecracks about their “Steel Wheelchairs” tour back in the ‘80s. But they just keep rocking — and they certainly don’t act their age, at least onstage. Far from it. In fact, they were back in all their energetic, timeless glory in Cleveland on Saturday for a show at Cleveland Browns Stadium, their first time here since 2002.
COVID derailed their scheduled 2020 Cleveland tour stop, so many area fans have waited 22 years for another chance to get their ya-ya’s out in their own backyard.
On Saturday night, the Stones gave fans a musical trip into their past and present with a 19-song, 2-plus hour set of hits from the ‘60s through ’80s, skipping the ’90s and the aughts but bringing it on into the 21st century with a few new tunes.
Before the show, fans milled about in a wide variety of vintage (or at least reproductions of vintage) t-shirts, and as always, hardcore fans commiserated about the number of Stones shows they have attended across the decades.
