Gazza wrote on Dec 13
th, 2011 at 7:18am:
Bitch wrote on Dec 12
th, 2011 at 9:44pm:
Steel Wheels wrote on Dec 12
th, 2011 at 4:09pm:
Like BB King, they will continue to play. I have 110% faith that is what they will do. Time marches on, and so do the Rolling Stones.
And thats exactly whats gonna happen. But how will they announce the tour? Here's an idea ~ It's going be a big Press Conference in London, going back to the original place where MICK & KEEF met at the train station, arriving on a train! That new statue should be in place by then! That would be a grand entrance, wouldnt it?
There's a statue? Wasnt it going to be a plaque or did I miss something?
Theyve done the train station announcement before ('89) but considering the anniversary significance, a train station would be very nice indeed. Dartford isn't in London, though.
Rolling Stones Examiner November 8, 2010 -
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards statues seek a home in Dartford, England
Dartford, Kent in England is famous for being the childhood hometown of singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. An artist who has sculpted statues of Jagger and Richards now wants to place those statues at a historical Rolling Stones location in Dartford, but he is facing financial obstacles.
Anthony Hawken, the creator of the statues, tells Kent Online that he thinks the ideal place for the statues would be at the Dartford railway station, where Jagger and Richards reconnected as teenagers after the two future rock stars had lost touch with each other when both of their families moved to different neighborhoods.
"There seem to be lots of places in Dartford where a statue could go," Hawken says, "but I think the station would be the most fitting place … We do get quite a few tourists visiting Dartford to go to Wentworth School or the station, so I think we would be really keen to do something. There are a few options we're considering, and finance is always an issue, but it's certainly on our agenda."
Before they reach adolescent age, Jagger and Richards both lived near each other and attended Wentworth Primary School and Dartford Grammar School for Boys, but the two future rock stars knew each other then as passing acquaintances. They lost contact when Jagger’s family moved to Wilmington (a Dartford suburb) and Richards’ family moved to Temple Hill.
Jagger and Richards became close friends as teenagers, after meeting at the Dartford railway station, and the two future rock stars immediately bonded over music. At the railway station, Richards noticed that Jagger was holding American records that were hard to get at the time in the United Kingdom.
At the time, Jagger was a student at the London Scool of Economics, and Keith was attending Sidcup Art College. In his memoir "Life," Richards remembers that fateful meeting with Jagger: "Did we hit it off? You get a carriage with a guy that’s got ‘Rockin’ at the Hops’ by Chuck Berry on Chess Records, and ‘The Best of Muddy Waters’ also under his arm, you are gonna hit it off."
Richards also says in the book: Almost immediately after we met, he start to sing and I’d start to play, and ‘Hey, that ain’t bad.’ And it wasn’t difficult; we had nobody to impress except us and we weren’t looking to impress ourselves.’’
In July 2010, Jagger returned to the Dartford Grammar School to open a new extension to the school’s co-ed Mick Jagger Centre for performing arts.
The Mick Jagger Centre opened in 2000, and it hosts the Jagger-funded Red Rooster music program, which gives tuition and music instruments to 150 students. In a July 2010 interview with the BBC, Jagger commented on Dartford Grammar School: "It's part of your consciousness, you're brought up somewhere for this very formative part of your life.
Anthony Hakwen's statue sculpture of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
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Anthony Hawken
Train Station looks large enough for a Press Conference!
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