Six decades into their remarkable careers, the Rolling Stones are back with a killer new single, a sexy video starring Sydney Sweeney, and their first studio album in 19 years
Mick Jagger turned 80 in July. Keith Richards offered his congratulations in the time-honoured tradition: his social media team posted a video to Instagram, so he could ask his old mucker — no, really, he isbeing, presumably, life in one’s ninth decade. Jagger’s response, if indeed one was forthcoming, is not recorded, but Richards is a mere 79, so he must only hang on until December 18 to find out for himself.
The invitations had gone out by email a few weeks previously. Few details were offered beyond the reassurance that this would be a “once-in-a-lifetime event”, but when their satanic majesties request one’s presence, it doesn’t do to ask too many questions. Also, they offered to send a car.
The empty stage was upholstered like a cupcake, in red velvet: red curtains, red armchairs, a red rug on which rested three chandeliers, as if they’d lately crashed to the floor. The famous Stones lips logo had been adapted to look like it was made of shattered glass. Fallon seemed to have fallen into the trap of imagining that the Rolling Stones were here to explain, rather than to amuse. Trying to establish a logical reason for what they do is a fool’s errand. The Stones have never played the Hackney Empire and appear to have no previous connection to it, or to the borough in which is sits. So what? It might as well be Hackney as anywhere else. The rock’n’roll circus pitches its tent wherever it pleases. Authenticity be damned. This is showbiz.
Apropos very little, Fallon wondered if the Stones ever play darts? Much to no one’s surprise, it turns out that the Stones do not play darts. In any event, Fallon looked like a weight had been lifted when it was time to wrap up the interview. “There’s no other band like you,” he enthused. “That’s the point,” drawled Keith.Now Fallon took a seat in the front row of the stalls, next to Sydney Sweeney, the star of, the HBO sexploitation show. From this position, he conducted an interview with her and, for reasons unexplained, her mother, who was seated behind them.
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