The Rolling Stones have returned to London's Hyde Park - 44 years since their last famous gig there.

Their historic free concert on July 5, 1969, came just two days after the death of founder member Brian Jones.

The legendary band topped the bill on the second day of a new festival, Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time.

Last time, frontman Sir Mick Jagger wore a white dress and began by quoting from a poem by Shelley.

But this time Sir Mick - who celebrates his 70th birthday in three weeks - was wearing a leopard print jacket and began his band's set with Start Me Up.

Tens of thousands of people were in the crowd in London, including celebrities such as David Walliams, Gemma Arterton, Simon Fuller and Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie.

Celebrated music producer Bob Clearmountain - renowned for his work as a live mix engineer - flew in to put his magic touch to the proceedings.

The Stones played two gigs at Hyde Park, both of which were filmed and recorded.

Glastonbury Festival 2013 - Day 4 Tens of thousands filled the venue in Hyde Park for the show

It is thought the sound recordings will go on to be sold through the iTunes store, while footage is expected to form a future DVD release.

The Stones' performances at Hyde Park came just days after their much-anticipated headline stint at Glastonbury the previous weekend.

Its certainly looking like the Hyde Park shows are being prepared for a DVD release of some sort, if the way Eagle Rock have been pulling footage of Saturday's gig off you tube is any indication.

Will be nice something like that-...

DVD 1- The Arena Show - Newark Dec 15
DVD 2- The Outdoor Show - Hyde Park July 13
DVD 3- The guests celebrating the band´s 50th anniversary
DVD 4- Te documentary (Crossfire Hurricane pt2) 83-2013, Interviews etc etc..

DVD set would have to include CYHMK.....or I wouldn't buy it.

The Wick wrote on Jul 9^th, 2013 at 3:15pm:


Absolutely.....they should be part of the final band intros in the last show..and before Keith begins his set he should acknowledge Mick and let the crowd roar.. as a peace offering and also cause Mick deserves it..will it happen? course not

Rev 20 Redlights wrote on Jul 12^th, 2013 at 8:12am:


Holy Fuck; that's lame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If that's the general reaction of the crowd, I have to agree with ya, Rev.

Shattered Stone wrote on Jul 12^th, 2013 at 11:14am:

That's still better energy than you'd see at a Super Heavy show.

Glasto was such a phenomenon. A few hundred thousand
people decide to party, and then the Stones decide to join
them, rather than the usual other way around. A very
unique dynamic that unquestionably lit a fire under
everybody...

I have a young friend in town here in country Australia,
with whom in the past I've watched Shine a Light, the
Doom and Gloom vid, and the Newark PPV. He's also
downloaded a lot of the Stones stuff for his ipod or ipad
or whatever, so he likes the Stones a bit but never could
quite see why I was such a fan.

Well, he's just finished nursing school, has his credentials,
and decided to take a month in Europe to celebrate. He
found he could pick up a bit of cash by being hired as a
nurse at Glasto, and this hiring was before we knew that
the Stones would be there.

I ran into his mom today, and she said she got this call
from him at some ungodly hour, and he was screaming
about how the Stones were the greatest thing he's ever
seen. I have no idea at this point how close or far he was
from the stage, but he's lazy so I doubt he was anywhere
near the front...

All in all, as I've written elsewhere, I think this 50 and
Counting version of the Stones is an atrocity, culturally
speaking, even though I know the music has been pretty
good at times, if only in a very retro way. But what the
Glasto crowd and the Glasto Stones accomplished, in
producing a mass ecstatic experience in 2013 around
the music and values of 1972, is just so impressive and
wonderful that I'll join everybody else in wishing that
against all the odds it can somehow happen again.