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Today in Rolling Stones history: June 23

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If you think your current job is high-pressure, imagine navigating the erratic energy of The Rolling Stones at their absolute peak of arena-filling excess. June 23 isn’t just a random date on a calendar; it’s a portal back to when the band was turning venues like Madison Square Garden into sweat-soaked temples of rock. It’s also the day the world finally got a taste of Emotional Rescue in 1980—a record that proved the band could still hustle, even when they were essentially operating on fumes and studio outtakes. From smoky London club roots to bloated stadium spectacles, the Stones lived more in twenty-four hours than most bands do in a lifetime.

June 23, 1963: Ken Colyer Jazz Club, Studio 51, London, England

June 23, 1975: Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, 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/Band introduction/ Happy/Tumbling Dice/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/ Heartbreaker /Cherry Oh Baby/Fingerprint File/Angie/Wild Horses/That’s Life/Outa Space/Brown Sugar/Midnight Rambler/Rip This Joint/Street Fighting Man/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Sympathy For The Devil
*With special guests The Steel Association on Sympathy For The Devil

June 23, 1976: Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria (The Rolling Stones Tour of Europe ’76)
Honky Tonk Women/If You Can’t Rock Me-Get Off Of My Cloud/Hand Of Fate/Hey Negrita/Ain’t Too Proud To Beg/Fool To Cry/ Hot Stuff/Star Star/You Gotta Move/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Band introduction/ Happy/Tumbling Dice/Nothing From Nothing/Outa Space/Midnight Rambler/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Brown Sugar/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Street Fighting Man

June 23, 1980: Release of Emotional Rescue, the Stones’ 15th British and 17th American studio album
SIDE A: 1. Dance/ 2. Summer Romance/ 3. Send It To Me/ 4. Let Me Go/ 5. Indian Girl
SIDE B: 1. Where The Boys Go/ 2. Down In The Hole/ 3. Emotional Rescue/ 4. She’s So Cold/ 5. All About You

While critics often label Emotional Rescue as a mere, diluted imitation of the band’s 1978 album, Some Girls, a deeper listen reveals it to be a natural evolutionary step. But if you actually spin the record, it’s not just a rehash; it’s the band moving forward. After years of coasting on the reputation they built with Exile on Main St., the success of Some Girls finally kicked them into gear and made them actually work for it again. Sure, a lot of the album is made up of studio leftovers and tracks they threw together in a hurry, but it’s still the Stones at their most professional. Even the “filler” tracks like Summer Romance or the reggae-heavy Send It to Me have a swagger that makes the whole thing a guilty pleasure. While maybe only the title track and She’s So Cold are true classics, the whole record feels like a band that’s hungry again.

June 23, 1982: St. James Park, Newcastle, England (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/Chantilly Lace/Let Me Go/ Time Is On My Side/Beast Of Burden/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Band introduction/Little T & A/Tumbling Dice/She’s So Cold/Hang Fire/Miss You/Honky Tonk Women/Brown Sugar/Start Me Up/ Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Satisfaction
Read: Newcastle United’s St James’ Park hosted 38,000 fans and its first rock show 35 years ago

June 23, 1990: Parc Des Princes, Paris, France (Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour)
Start Me Up/Sad Sad Sad/Harlem Shuffle/Tumbling Dice/Miss You/Terrifying/Ruby Tuesday/Angie/Rock And A Hard Place/ Mixed Emotions/Honky Tonk Women/Midnight Rambler/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Can’t Be Seen/Happy/Paint It Black/2000 Light Years From Home/Sympathy For The Devil/ Street Fighting Man/Gimme Shelter/Band introduction/ It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Brown Sugar/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Satisfaction

June 23, 2007: Estadio Anoeta, San Sebastián, Spain (A Bigger Bang Tour, European leg)
Start Me Up/Let’s Spend The Night Together/Rough Justice/All Down The Line/You Got Me Rocking/Ruby Tuesday/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/I’ll Go Crazy/Tumbling Dice/Band introduction/You Got The Silver/ Wanna Hold You/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/It’s All Over Now/Satisfaction/Honky Tonk Women/Sympathy For The Devil/Paint It Black/Brown Sugar/Jumpin’ Jack Flash

June 23, 2015: ‘Summerfest’, Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA (Zip Code Tour of North America 2015)
Jumpin’ Jack Flash/It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll/Tumbling Dice/Doom And Gloom/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/ Moonlight Mile/ Champagne and Reefer/Heartbreaker/Honky Tonk Women/Band introduction/Before They Make Me Run/Happy/Midnight Rambler/Miss You/Gimme Shelter/Start Me Up/Sympathy For The Devil/Brown Sugar/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/ Satisfaction
*With special guests Buddy Guy on Champagne and Reefer and the UWM Concert Chorale choir on You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Read: The Rolling Stones in Milwaukee: Revisiting the Night the ‘Big Gig’ Became Rock History

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