The legendary band, celebrating its 50th anniversary, said Monday it would return to the stage this year with four concerts in Britain and the United States. The shows will take place on Nov. 25 and 29 at London's O2 Arena, followed by gigs on Dec. 13 and 15 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, just outside of New York.
Those were the only dates announced, which doesn't sound like good news for Bay Area fans. Even if it is their 50th anniversary, it doesn't sound like they going to replicate that outside-of-Livermore thing for old time's sake.
The shows will mark the first time in five years that the Stones have performed live, with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood all coming together once more. The band said it was the "crowning glory" of celebrations marking its 50th anniversary of its first gig.
"Everybody loves a celebration, and London and New York are two good places to do it in!" Jagger said in a statement.
Their last global tour, "A Bigger Bang," earned more than $500 million between 2005 and 2007.
The Stones are releasing "GRRR!" in November, a greatest hits collection that includes two new songs, "Doom and Gloom," which debuted last week, and "One More Shot." Both were recorded recently in Paris and represent the first new recordings since the 2005 album "A Bigger Bang."
The tour comes despite some famously testy times. Richards and Jagger have been creative catalysts and sparring partners -- sentiments aggravated two years ago when Richards published his autobiography "Life," in which he wrote unflattering things about Jagger's pants.
They've nonetheless appeared amicably together during events that marked their 50th anniversary. A documentary about the band, "Crossfire Hurricane," premieres at the London Film Festival on Thursday.
In another milestone marking their five decades of music, the Museum of Modern Art in New York will host "The Rolling Stones: 50 Years on Film," a retrospective chronicling the band from the mid-1960s until today. This exhibition will be open Nov. 15.
"Nowadays it's harder because everyone is on Facebook and everyone knows where you are all the time, and everyone's twittering," she is quoted as saying in author Talia Soghomonion's e-book, "Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner -- In Their Own Words."
"Like I'm going to die because somebody is going to say where I am and somebody is going to kill me. Someone's going to Twitter my location and then it's going to be like, boom," she explained.
Neither Stewart nor her (maybe) boyfriend Robert Pattinson has an official Twitter account or Facebook page. Which makes sense, since plenty of "Twiilght" fans think vampires and werewolves are real. But Stewart does seem to understand that this whole Internet thing can be advantageous in some ways.
"I actually think too much of anything can be scary, but at the same time it's also an opportunity. I mean mass communication is a good thing. It's actually a really great thing, it's just scary," she explained.
This isn't the first time Stewart has complained about the Internet being bad.
"You can Google my name and one of the first things that comes up is an image of me sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe with my ex-boyfriend (Michael Angarano) and my dog. It was the day ('Twilight') came out.
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