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Saturday, June 22, 2019

The Rolling Stones Start North America Tour

Mick Jagger swaggered back to the stage on Friday in his first concert after undergoing heart surgery in April as the Rolling Stones kicked off a delayed North American tour.

The veteran British band opened its No Filter Tour in Chicago at the city’s 61,500 seat Soldier Field stadium, after delaying the 17-date U.S. and Canada tour to allow for Jagger’s medical treatment.

Mick Jagger - Friday night
Opening to a sold-out crowd, the band kicked off with its classic hit “Street Fighting Man” as the Stones frontman, dressed in skinny black jeans and a black and white jacket, strutted across the stage, singing and pumping his fist.

Jagger, 75, underwent heart valve replacement surgery in New York in early April, and in May reassured fans that he was back in shape by posting video on Twitter of him dancing in a studio.

The 1960s band, whose current members Jagger, Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are now all in their 70s, has played more than 40 tours, making the quartet some of the most enduring and successful rock musicians of all time.

The Rolling Stones kicked off the No Filter tour in Europe in September 2017, playing the last show there in July 2018.

The North American No Filter concerts will take the band across the United States, and to one date in Ontario, Canada, before ending in Miami on Aug. 31.

Rolling Stones set list Friday at Soldier Field:

1. Street Fighting Man
2. Let’s Spend the Night Together
3. Tumbling Dice
4. Sad Sad Sad
5. You Got Me Rocking
6. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
7. Angie
8. Dead Flowers
9. Sympathy for the Devil
10. Honky Tonk Women

11. You Got the Silver
12. Before They Make Me Run
13. Miss You
14. Paint it Black
15. Midnight Rambler
16. Start Me Up
17. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
18. Brown Sugar

Encore

19. Gimme Shelter
20. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

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