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Today in Rolling Stones history: December 9

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December 9, 1962: Studio 51, London, England (without Bill and Charlie)

Dec. 9, 1981: Capital Center Arena, Largo, MD, USA
Under My Thumb/When The Whip Comes Down/Let’s Spend The Night Together/Shattered/Neighbours/ Black Limousine/Just My Imagination/ Twenty Flight Rock/Going To A Go Go/Let Me Go/Time Is On My Side/Beast Of Burden/Waiting On A Friend/Let It Bleed/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Band introduction/Tumbling Dice/She’s So Cold/Hang Fire/Miss You/Honky Tonk Women/Brown Sugar/Start Me Up/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Satisfaction

The Stones’ 1981 American Tour pushed Tattoo You across huge U.S. stadiums and arenas, raking in a massive $50 million and becoming the year’s top-earning tour. Around 2.5 million fans packed the shows, smashing ticket records everywhere. Their December 5 New Orleans gig even set an indoor attendance record that lasted decades.

December 9, 1989: Silverdome, Pontiac, MI, USA
Start Me Up/Bitch/Sad Sad Sad/Undercover Of The Night/Harlem Shuffle/ Tumbling Dice/Miss You/Ruby Tuesday/Angie/Dead Flowers/Rock And A Hard Place/Terrifying/Mixed Emotions/Honky Tonk Women/ Midnight Rambler/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Before They Make Me Run/ Happy/Paint It Black/2000 Light Years From Home/Sympathy For The Devil/ Gimme Shelter/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Brown Sugar/Satisfaction/Jumpin’ Jack Flash

December 9, 1997: Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA, USA
Satisfaction/Let’s Spend The Night Together/Flip The Switch/Gimme Shelter/ Anybody Seen My Baby?/Saint Of Me/Bitch/Out Of Control/No Expectations/Miss You/Band introduction/All About You/Wanna Hold You/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/The Last Time/Like A Rolling Stone/Sympathy For The Devil/ Tumbling Dice/Honky Tonk Women/Start Me Up/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/ You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Brown Sugar

The Stones launched their Bridges to Babylon Tour with a splashy press event under the Brooklyn Bridge, kicking things off with warm-up gigs in Toronto and Chicago. The official opener hit Soldier Field on September 23, 1997, leading to a massive run: 55 North American shows and dozens more across South America, Japan, and Europe. This tour debuted a near-constant B-stage, linked by a huge 46-meter telescoping bridge that stretched from the main stage to the stadium’s center.

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