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From a raw 1964 stage at Leas Cliff Hall to a genre-blurring moment with Bob Dylan in Buenos Aires, April 4 traces The Rolling Stones in constant motion. It’s a day where studio experiments by Keith Richards in New York City sit alongside releases like I Go Wild and the cinematic energy of Shine a Light. From historic firsts in Bangalore to cultural milestones like Exhibitionism in London, this date captures the band not as nostalgia—but as an ever-evolving force still writing its story.
April 4, 1964: Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone, England
April 4, 1987: Keith Richards heads into a New York City studio session (at Quadrasonic Sound) with the band Organized Kryme . With Larry Blackman producing, he lays down a guitar track for the song Waste It On Love (unverified)
April 4, 1994: Release of the I Go Wild CD-single (Virgin Records America V25H-38478), feat. four tracks: 1. I Go Wild (album version)/ 2. I Go Wild (Scott Litt Remix)/ 3. I Go Wild (live in Miami Nov. 25 1994)/ 4. I Go Wild (Luis Resto Straight Vocal Mix)
April 4, 1998: Estadio River Plate, Buenos Aires, Argentina *With guest Bob Dylan on Like a Rolling Stone. This wasn’t just another performance, it was the second time ever Dylan joined The Stones onstage for a rendition of his own song, following that earlier crossover in Montpellier, France, in 1995.
April 4, 2003: The band picks up their Australasian tour again after the cancelled China dates, kicking things off with their very first show at the Palace Grounds, Bangalore, India. Brown Sugar/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Start Me Up/Don’t Stop/Angie/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Bitch/Miss You/Tumbling Dice/Band introduction/Slipping Away/Before They Make Me Run/Sympathy For The Devil/Midnight Rambler/Gimme Shelter/Honky Tonk Women/ Satisfaction/Jumpin’ Jack Flash
April 4, 2008: Release of the Shine A Light (soundtrack album) 2-CD set CD1:1. Jumpin’ Jack Flash/ 2. Shattered/ 3. She Was Hot/ 4. All Down the Line/ 5. Loving Cup/ 6. As Tears Go By/ 7. Some Girls/ 8. Just My Imagination/ 9. Far Away Eyes/ 10. Champagne & Reefer/ 11. Tumbling Dice/ 12. Band introductions/ 13. You Got the Silver/ 14. Connection CD2: 1. Martin Scorsese intro/ 2. Sympathy for the Devil/ 3. Live with Me/ 4. Start Me Up/ 5. Brown Sugar/ 6. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction/ 7. Paint It Black/ 8. Little T&A/ 9. I’m Free/ 10. Shine a Light
April 4, 2009: Ronnie inducts Bobby Womack at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Awards in Cleveland, Ohio.
April 4, 2016: All four Stones attend the launch of Exhibitionism at the Saatchi Gallery in London, England, an exhibition of memorabilia of the band through the years spanning their career, which will later run during four years at different galleries around the world. Mick: “It’s fair to say I’m not very nostalgic. Obviously, to be able to help this along, I have had to invest in delving back. But the thing about nostalgia is that it is trying to hark back to something that no longer exists, and I don’t really feel like that about this exhibition. I look at it as part of an ongoing story. We’re still out there, still on the road, still going. This is just the next thing.”
April 4, 2019: It is announced that Mick is recovering in hospital after undergoing a successful non-surgical heart valve replacement procedure in New York City.
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