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Today in Rolling Stones history: July 24

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If you think one day on the calendar can’t possibly capture the chaos of The Rolling Stones, July 24 is here to prove you gloriously wrong. Riots, marathon concerts, unforgettable setlists, and enough backstage drama to keep a tabloid alive for years all collide on this single date. It’s the kind of timeline that reminds you the band rarely did anything the easy way—and probably would have been disappointed if they had. From Blackpool mayhem to Madison Square Garden triumphs, July 24 isn’t just another page in Rolling Stones history. It’s a fast-moving snapshot of rock ‘n’ roll refusing to behave.

July 24, 1963: Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, England

July 24, 1964: Empress Ballroom, Blackpool, England, where a major riot took place.
Keith Richards remembers: “We’d walk into some of those places, we were playing and it was like they had the Battle of Crimea going on, people gasping, tits hanging out, chicks choking, nurses running round with ambulances. I know it was the same for the Beatles. One had been reading about that: Beatlemania… You know that weird sound that thousands of chicks make when they’re really letting it go. They couldn’t hear the music. We couldn’t hear ourselves for years…

…There was one ballroom number in Blackpool during Scots week when all the Scots came down and get really drunk and let it rip, a whole gang of ’em came to this ballroom and they didn’t like us and they punched their way to the front, right though the whole 7000 people, straight to the stage and started spitting at us. In those days, I had a temper, and ‘You spit on me?’ And I kicked his face in.”
Read: Blackpool forgives Rolling Stones 1964 riot

July 24, 1966: Three shows: Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino and 2 shows at the Civic Auditorium, Bakersfield, California, USA (The Rolling Stones American Tour 1966)

July 24, 1972: Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, USA (The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972)
Brown Sugar/Bitch/Rocks Off/Gimme Shelter/Happy/Tumbling Dice/ Love In Vain/Sweet Virginia/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/ All Down The Line/Midnight Rambler/Band introduction/Bye Bye Johnny/Rip This Joint/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Street Fighting Man/Uptight-Satisfaction

July 24, 1975: Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Ilinois, USA (Rolling Stones’ Tour of the Americas ’75)
Honky Tonk Women/All Down The Line/If You Can’t Rock Me-Get Off Of My Cloud/Star Star/Gimme Shelter/Ain’t Too Proud To Beg/You Gotta Move/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Happy/Tumbling Dice/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Band introduction/Fingerprint File/Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa/Wild Horses/That’s Life/Outa Space/Brown Sugar/Midnight Rambler/Rip This Joint/Street Fighting Man/Jumpin’ Jack Flash

July 24, 1982: Slane Castle, Slane, Ireland (The Rolling Stones European Tour ’82)
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/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Band introduction/Little T & A/Angie/ Tumbling Dice/She’s So Cold/Hang Fire/Miss You/Honky Tonk Women/Brown Sugar/Start Me Up/ Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Satisfaction
Read: The Rolling Stones at Slane Castle 1982: The Show That Nearly Never Happened

July 24, 1995: Avalade, Lisbon, Portugal (Voodoo Lounge Tour, European leg)
Not Fade Away/Tumbling Dice/You Got Me Rocking/It’s All Over Now/ Live With Me/Sparks Will Fly/ Satisfaction/Beast Of Burden/Angie/Like A Rolling Stone/Heartbreaker/Gimme Shelter/I Go Wild/Miss You/Band introduction/Honky Tonk Women/Happy/Slipping Away/Sympathy For The Devil/Street Fighting Man/Start Me Up/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Brown Sugar/Jumpin’ Jack Flash

July 24, 1996: Release of Dred Rootster Feat. Babi Floyd’s CD One Blood, with Keith as guest on three tracks: 1. Done By You/ 2. Rainy Days And Mondays/ 3. Natural Mystic

July 24, 2003: AOL Arena, Hamburg, Germany (Licks Tour, European leg)
Brown Sugar/Start Me Up/You Got Me Rocking/Don’t Stop/Angie/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/ Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/Tumbling Dice/Band introduction/Slipping Away/Before They Make Me Run/Sympathy For The Devil/Respectable/I Just Want To Make Love To You/Street Fighting Man/Gimme Shelter/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Honky Tonk Women/ Satisfaction/Jumpin’ Jack Flash

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