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Today in Rolling Stones history: June 8

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June 8 has a funny way of stacking The Rolling Stones’ story into one long, chaotic mixtape of turning points, courtrooms, stage lights, and studio smoke. From Brian Jones casually stepping into The Beatles’ orbit on You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) to the band posing in rural England as if they’re already mythologizing themselves, the date keeps looping back to reinvention. Fast-forward and you’ve got legal tension in Toronto, tour chaos in Milwaukee, and Mick Jagger sneaking off to film Wandering Spirit visuals like it’s just another day at the office. Across decades, June 8 feels less like a date and more like a reminder that the Stones never really stop moving—they just change scenery.

June 8, 1967: Brian Jones joins The Beatles during the recording of You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) at EMI Studios in London, contributing saxophone parts to the unusual and experimental session. His appearance adds a distinctive texture to the track, which was recorded in several fragmented sessions and later became known for its playful, genre-hopping structure and studio experimentation.

June 8, 1968: The Stones take part in an outdoor photo session at Balcony Field in Swarkestone, near Derby, in central England. The shoot captures the band in a rural English landscape, reflecting the transitional period of their late-1960s image and marking another visual document from a year of major artistic change.
Read: The Rolling Stones ‘Banquet’ Photo Shoots: Behind the Scenes of the 1968 Iconic Sessions

June 8, 1969: Mick, Keith and Charlie travel to Cotchford Farm, Brian Jones’ home in Surrey, to deliver the news that his time with the band had come to an end. Following the meeting, the group released an official press statement announcing that he was leaving the Stones, bringing to a close the founding member’s turbulent final chapter with the band he had helped create. Next day Brian announces “I no longer see eye-to-eye with the others over the discs we are cutting… I want to play my kind of music, which is no longer the Stones music. The music Mick and Keith have been writing has progressed at a tangent, as far as my own taste is concerned.”

June 8, 1972: Winterland Arena, San Francisco, California, USA, 2 shows (The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972)

June 8, 1975: County Stadium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 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/Sure The One You Need/Tumbling Dice/Luxury/Band introduction/ Heartbreaker/Angie/Wild Horses/That’s Life/Outa Space/Midnight Rambler/ Brown Sugar/Rip This Joint/Street Fighting Man/Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Read: The Rolling Stones Rock Milwaukee in 1975 During the Tour of the Americas

June 8, 1979: Keith signs a formal declaration submitted to the court as part of the appeal proceedings in Toronto, a key step in the legal process following his earlier conviction. The document outlines the grounds for the appeal and becomes part of the case reviewed by the court.
“Ever since my arrest in February 1977 in this case, I was grimly determined to change my life and abstain from any drug use. My whole experience in this case and, in particular, the Order of his Honor Judge Graburn have afforded me the opportunity to give positive direction and effect on my life and future career. It was a rewarding experience for me also to have been given an opportunity to assist in my small measure the blind people of Canada. I can truthfully say that the prospect of my ever using drugs again in the future is totally alien to my thinking. My experience has also had an important effect not only on my happiness, but on my happiness at home in which my young son is brought up.”

June 8, 1993: Mick shoots a promotional video for Out of Focus, a track from his solo album Wandering Spirit, at Spiller’s Mill in London. The video is filmed in the atmospheric industrial setting of the historic mill, providing a fitting backdrop for the song and helping promote the album during its release campaign.

June 8, 1999: Shepherds Bush Empire, London, England (Bridges to Babylon Tour, European leg continued)
Shattered/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Respectable/All Down The Line/Some Girls/Melody/I Got The Blues/Brand New Car/Moon Is Up/Saint Of Me/Honky Tonk Women/Band introduction/You Got The Silver/Before They Make Me Run/Route 66/You Got Me Rocking/Tumbling Dice/Brown Sugar/Jumpin’ Jack Flash
*With special guest Sheryl Crow on Honky Tonk Women

June 8, 2003: Circus Krone, Munich, Germany (Licks Tour, European leg)
Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Tumbling Dice/All Down The Line/Sweet Virginia/Worried About You/Stray Cat Blues/Everybody Needs Somebody To Love/Dance/That’s How Strong My Love Is/Going To A Go Go/Band introduction/The Nearness Of You/Before They Make Me Run/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/Honky Tonk Women/Start Me Up/Brown Sugar/I Can’t Turn You Loose

June 8, 2007: Goffert Park, Nijmegen, Holland (A Bigger Bang Tour, European leg)
Start Me Up/You Got Me Rocking/Rough Justice/All Down The Line/She Was Hot/Sweet Virginia/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/I’ll Go Crazy/Tumbling Dice/Band introduction/Wanna Hold You/Happy/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 8, 2015: Release of DVD (+ 3 CDs) Marquee Club Live In 1971 (From the Vault series)
Filmed at London’s iconic Marquee Club in March 1971 (the very place the band played their first show ever on July 12 1962), this Stones performance originally aired on US television and was now restored and remixed in the Eagle Rock Entertainment From The Vault series. The intimate club setting captures the band debuting key Sticky Fingers tracks just weeks before the album’s release. It features early live versions of Brown Sugar, Dead Flowers, Bitch and I Got the Blues.

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