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The Rolling Stones live at the Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles 2015
The night The Rolling Stones turned the Fonda Theatre into the world’s coolest time machine, Sticky Fingersstopped being just another legendary album and became a living, breathing beast again. That’s the night they ripped through Moonlight Mile, Wild Horsesand Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (and the rest of the album) with the swagger of musicians who clearly forgot they were supposed to age decades ago. What made this show unforgettable wasn’t nostalgia alone—it was the rare sight of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and company treating a classic album less like a museum piece and more like unfinished business. In an era where “special concerts” usually mean inflated ticket prices and giant phone screens, The Rolling Stones delivered something genuinely unpredictable: a sweaty, intimate rock-and-roll ambush that reminded Los Angeles exactly why Sticky Fingers still sounds dangerous more than four decades later.
May 20, 2015: Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA (unannounced warm-up show featuring the complete Sticky Fingers album—the first time in their career the Stones performed a full album live)
Start Me Up/When The Whip Comes Down/All Down The Line/Sway/Dead Flowers/Wild Horses/Sister Morphine/You Gotta Move/Bitch/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/I Got the Blues/Moonlight Mile/Brown Sugar/Rock Me Baby/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Can’t Turn You Loose *Released in September 2017 as Bluray/DVD/3LP-set *All photos taken from the IORR site
Surprise Show Rocks Los Angeles
On May 20, 2015 The Rolling Stones stunned fans with a surprise performance at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, California. This intimate venue, with a capacity of only a few hundred, became the setting for a once-in-a-lifetime show. Announced at the very last minute, the concert served as a warm-up for the band’s Zip Code tour—but it quickly became a historic event in its own right.
Sticky Fingers Performed in Full for the First Time
For the first time in their legendary career the Stones performed an entire studio album live from start to finish. That album was Sticky Fingers, their classic 1971 release known for hits like Brown Sugar, Wild HorsesandBitch. The setlist included all ten tracks from the album, including deeper cuts such as Sister Morphine, You Gotta Moveand the great closer Moonlight Mile. While the encore featured bluesy surprises like Rock Me Baby(as a tribute to B.B. King, who had passed 6 days earlier) as well as other iconic rockers of the band. This rare and intimate show gave fans a unique glimpse of The Rolling Stones revisiting their roots with unmatched energy and passion, proving once again why they remain one of the greatest live acts in rock history.
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