The
Rolling Stones have announced four concerts in London and New York at the end
of the year.The band
will play London's O2 Arena on 25 and 29 November and at the Prudential Centre
in Newark, New Jersey, on 13 and 15 December. Rumours
of a tour to mark The Stones' 50th anniversary had been circulating for a
number of years. Tickets
for the UK gigs go on sale on Friday, with the New Jersey tickets on sale next
Friday. Pre-sale
tickets for the UK dates are already available with prices ranging from £106 -
£406 including ticket fees.
Making
the announcement in a video on YouTube, the band said: "You must have
guessed this was coming. "Surely
you didn't think we weren't going to do this? Soon we will be back on stage
playing for you in two cities that know how to rock and roll." Mick
Jagger suggested there could be some special guests at the shows, saying there
would be "maybe a few friends joining us".The news
comes as the band release a new single, 'Doom and Gloom'. Jagger
told BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans: "It was written very quickly and the band
seemed to like it. "It
was a quick recording session. We recorded two songs - the other one is called
'One More Shot'."
The
singer also appeared to hint that the four new dates could be the start of a
longer run of gigs at a later point. Prior to
the announcement, when asked how many shows the band would be performing,
Jagger replied: "It's not going to be a long tour, the first bit." The
Rolling Stones last world tour, 'A Bigger Bang', played to 4.5m people in 32
countries over two years before it finished in London in 2007.
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