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Today in Rolling Stones history: June 18

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June 18 has strange habit of collecting The Rolling Stones like loose change under hotel sofa: Dundee theatres, Midwestern stadiums, and alarming detour through the Playboy Mansion. If you thought touring was guitars and applause, think again—this date remembers chaos, champagne, and at least one room that needed fire insurance. Somewhere in the timeline, The Rolling Stones turn Gimme Shelter into more than a song, it becomes a mood, hovering over decades of shows that blur into one long, loud grin. Call it rock history or organized disorder, but June 18 keeps proving the Stones never did boring at all.

June 18, 1972: During their stay in Chicago for the shows there the Stones spend 3 or 4 days at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion. Keith and Bobby Keys nearly set it ablaze while doing drugs in a bathroom. “Bobby says, ‘It’s smoky in here’ ” Richards recalled in his book ‘Life’. “And then a little later there’s a thumping at the door, waiters and guys in black suits bringing buckets of water. They get the door open, and we’re sitting on the floor, our eyeballs very pinned.” The house was saved, but, as Richards notes, Hefner would relocate the Playboy Mansion to Los Angeles.

June 18, 1972: Metropolitan Sports Center, Bloomington, Minnesota, USA (The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972)

June 18, 1975: Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada (Rolling Stones’ Tour of the Americas ’75)

June 18, 1995: Draf-en Rennbahn, Landgraaf, Holland (Voodoo Lounge Tour, European leg)
Not Fade Away/Tumbling Dice/You Got Me Rocking/Rocks Off/Live With Me/Sparks Will Fly/ Satisfaction/Love Is Strong/Love In Vain/Like A Rolling Stone/Rock And A Hard Place/Gimme Shelter/I Go Wild/Miss You/Band introduction/Honky Tonk Women/ Before They Make Me Run/Slipping Away/ Sympathy For The Devil/Street Fighting Man/Start Me Up/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Brown Sugar/Jumpin’ Jack Flash

June 18, 1999: Draf-en Rennbahn, Landgraaf, Holland (Bridges to Babylon Tour, European leg continued)
Jumpin’ Jack Flash/You Got Me Rocking/Live With Me/Respectable/Gimme Shelter/Honky Tonk Women/ Memory Motel/Saint Of Me/Out Of Control/ Paint It Black/Band introduction/You Don’t Have To Mean It/ Before They Make Me Run/Route 66/Like A Rolling Stone/Midnight Rambler/Sympathy For The Devil/ Tumbling Dice/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Start Me Up/Brown Sugar/ Satisfaction

June 18, 2003: Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria (Licks Tour, European leg)
Brown Sugar/Start Me Up/You Got Me Rocking/Don’t Stop/Bitch/Angie/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/Tumbling Dice/Band introduction/Thru And Thru/Before They Make Me Run/Sympathy For The Devil/I Just Want To Make Love To You/Street Fighting Man/Midnight Rambler/Gimme Shelter/Honky Tonk Women/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Satisfaction/ Jumpin’ Jack Flash

June 18, 2007: Stade Gerland, Lyon, France (A Bigger Bang Tour, European leg)

June 18, 2013: Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (50 & Counting… Tour, North American Leg)
Get Off Of My Cloud/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Paint It Black/Gimme Shelter/Wild Horses/Dead Flowers/ Emotional Rescue/Doom And Gloom/One More Shot/Honky Tonk Women/Band introduction/You Got The Silver/Before They Make Me Run/Midnight Rambler/ Miss You/Start Me Up/Tumbling Dice/Brown Sugar/Sympathy For The Devil/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Satisfaction
*With special guests Brad Paisley on Dead Flowers and The Crossing Choir on You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Read: The Rolling Stones and A Great Live Show in Philadelphia in 2013

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