The Rolling Stones announced their new world tour—called, fittingly, “Rolling Stones on Stage”—with the bravado expected of one of rock’s biggest, most enduring acts. Playing before a group made up largely of members of the international media, along with executives from Virgin, the band’s label, Mick Jagger and the boys kicked off a press conference with a 15-minute performance from the outdoor balcony of the Juilliard School.Tour promoter TGA Entertainment looked to Event Resources to produce the event—they also did the recent U2 concert kickoff in Dumbo, after all. Event Resources masked the balcony with a large curtain from Production Resource Group, which was pulled away to reveal the aging—but nonetheless energetic—Stones. After the band serenaded the audience, they reassembled below for a chatty, informal question-and-answer session with the press.
If the choice of venue seemed a bit, shall we say, old or traditional, consider this: Julliard has only been at Lincoln Center since 1969, the year the Stones released Let It Bleed and “Honky Tonk Woman” became the band’s sixth number one single in the U.S.
—Mark Mavrigian
If the choice of venue seemed a bit, shall we say, old or traditional, consider this: Julliard has only been at Lincoln Center since 1969, the year the Stones released Let It Bleed and “Honky Tonk Woman” became the band’s sixth number one single in the U.S.
—Mark Mavrigian