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Today in Rolling Stones history: June 21

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June 21 has a strange habit of showing up like a backstage pass to The Rolling Stones’ timeline, dropping everything from chaotic European nights in Zagreb in 1976 to the swagger-heavy Hampton Coliseum show in 1978, where Miss You was still fresh and dangerously addictive. Fast-forward, and the date keeps refusing to sit still: it marks the 1991 release of Johnnie B. Bad, where Johnnie Johnson stepped into the spotlight with help from guests like Keith Richards, then swings back to massive Stones tours in Werchter 1998, Barcelona 2007, Philadelphia 2013, Chicago 2019, and Milan 2022. Somewhere in between, you get live DVDs, documentaries like The Quiet One, and enough guitar-fueled excess to make “just another June 21” sound like a joke nobody warned you about.

June 21, 1976: Sportska Dvorana, Zagreb, Yugoslavia (The Rolling Stones Tour of Europe ’76)
Read: When The Rolling Stones Hit Zagreb: A Dive into a Defining 1976 Tour Stop

June 21, 1978: Coliseum, Hampton, Virginia, USA (The Rolling Stones U.S. Tour 1978)
Let It Rock/All Down The Line/Honky Tonk Women/Star Star/Lies/Miss You/When The Whip Comes Down/Beast Of Burden/Just My Imagination/Respectable/Far Away Eyes/Love In Vain/Shattered/Sweet Little Sixteen/Tumbling Dice/Happy/Brown Sugar/ Jumpin’ Jack Flash

June 21, 1991: Release of Johnnie Johnson‘s CD Johnnie B. Bad, with Keith as guest on two tracks: 1. Tanqueray/ 2. Key To The Highway
Johnnie B. Bad marked a major solo triumph for pianist Johnnie Johnson. The Grammy-nominated album blends boogie-woogie, Chicago blues, and rock, featuring guests such as Keith and Eric Clapton, among others, while spotlighting Johnson’s powerful piano style rather than a vocal-centered blues format.

June 21, 1998: Festival Ground, Werchter, Belgium (Bridges to Babylon Tour, European leg)
Satisfaction/Let’s Spend The Night Together/Flip The Switch/Gimme Shelter/Sister Morphine/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Saint Of Me/ Out Of Control/Under My Thumb/Miss You/Band introduction/Thief In The Night/Wanna Hold You/Little Queenie/I Just Want To Make Love To You/Like A Rolling Stone/Sympathy For The Devil/Tumbling Dice/Honky Tonk Women/Start Me Up/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Brown Sugar

June 21, 2007: Estadi Olimpic, Barcelona, Spain (A Bigger Bang Tour, European leg)
Start Me Up/Let’s Spend The Night Together/Rough Justice/Rocks Off/Ain’t Too Proud To Beg/Streets Of Love/Midnight Rambler/I’ll Go Crazy/Tumbling Dice/Band introduction/You Got The Silver/Wanna Hold You/Miss You/Respectable/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Honky Tonk Women/Sympathy For The Devil/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Brown Sugar/Satisfaction
Read: The Rolling Stones in Barcelona 2007: The Night They Owned the Olympic Stadium

June 21, 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/Under The Boardwalk/When The Whip Comes Down/ Emotional Rescue/Doom And Gloom/One More Shot/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/ Honky Tonk Women/Band introduction/You Got The Silver/Happy/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 Fash/Satisfaction
*With special guests Aaron Neville on Under The Boardwalk and The Crossing Choir on You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Read: The Rolling Stones in Philadelphia 2013: Reliving the 50 & Counting Tour

June 21, 2019: Soldier Field, Chicago, Ilinois, USA (first show of the No Filter Tour, U.S. leg)
Street Fighting Man/Let’s Spend The Night Together/Tumbling Dice/Sad Sad Sad/You Got Me Rocking/ You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Angie/Dead Flowers/Sympathy For The Devil/ Honky Tonk Women/ Band introduction/You Got The Silver/Before They Make Me Run/Miss You/Paint It Black/Midnight Rambler/Start Me Up/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Brown Sugar/Gimme Shelter/ Satisfaction

June 21, 2019: Release of DVD & 2 CD’s Bridges To Bremen (filmed live at the Weserstadio, Bremen, Germany, September 2 1998)
1. Satisfaction/2. Let’s Spend The Night Together/3. Flip The Switch/4. Gimme Shelter/5. Anybody Seen My Baby?/6. Paint It Black/7. Saint Of Me/8. Out Of Control/9. Memory Motel/10. Miss You/11. Thief In The Night/12. Wanna Hold You/13. It’s Only Rock ’n Roll/14. You Got Me Rocking/15. Like A Rolling Stone/16. Sympathy For The Devil/17. Tumbling Dice/18. Honky Tonk Women/19. Start Me Up/20. Jumpin’ Jack Flash/21. You Can’t Always Get What You Want/
Plus bonus tracks, Chicago, Sept. 23 1997: 22. Brown Sugar/23. Rock And A Hard Place/24. Under My Thumb/25. All About You/26. Let It Bleed

June 21, 2019: Release of Bill Wyman’s The Quiet One documentary on DVD
The Quiet One is a video portrait of Bill Wyman, the founding bassist of the Stones and famously reserved member of the band. Drawing from Wyman’s extensive personal archive, the film provides a rare and deeply personal account of his life, from his modest working-class upbringing and military service to global fame. Through previously unseen home movies, thousands of photographs, diary entries, and collected memorabilia, it explores his 31 years with the Stones and his quest for normality amid the excesses of rock stardom. Functioning as both a personal memoir and a record of rock history, the documentary also features reflections from family members, friends, and fellow musicians, including Eric Clapton and Bob Geldof.

June 21, 2022: Stadio Giuseppe Meazza aka San Siro, Milano, Italy (Mick, Keith and Ronnie, No Charlie, Sixty European tour)
Street Fighting Man/19th Nervous Breakdown/Tumbling Dice/Out Of Time/Dead Flowers/Wild Horses/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Living In A Ghost Town/Honky Tonk Women/You Got The Silver/Connection/Miss You/Midnight Rambler/Start Me Up/Paint It Black/Sympathy For The Devil/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Gimme Shelter/Satisfaction
*Without Sasha Allen, and featuring special guests Chanel Haynes on vocals for Gimme Shelter, along with Amy Keys, Kamilah Marshall and Kenna Ramsey on backing vocals

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