Daisy66 wrote on Feb 23
rd, 2014 at 6:34pm:
I've never been on a forum before and thought I would give it a go to get my story out there and feedback from fellow Stones fans.
In 1990, my friend and I were travelling through Europe and the UK, we are from Australia, we heard that the Stones were going to be playing Wembley Stadium on their Urban Jungle World Tour. As my friend knew how much of a massive Stones tragic I was, she offered to buy tickets as a birthday gift.
So off we went to the Virgin Megastore in Oxford Street, London to buy our tickets, at the counter we asked the guy that we wanted 2 tickets to the Rolling Stones concert, he told us he would need to check this and disappeard out the back only to come back out with a TV crew and us being told that we had bought the 5 millionth tickets for the Urban Jungle world tour and the prize being that we would meet the band members before the concert, we didn't even know that there was a competition on.
The prize included that we were to be picked up by a limo and go to a meet and greet function before the concert plus great seats for the show, we couldn't believe our luck! We were interviewed on TV, radio and featured in the newspapers, I still have the clipping - the news even reached Australian radio.
Wow, what a fantastic prize, we had only been in the UK for 3 days, so we had a couple of months touring around Europe before coming back to London for the July 14 concert, this was to be the big finale to our holiday as we were to fly back home in the following days after the concert. The afternoon of the concert we received a phone call to say that the concert had been cancelled due to Keith Richards having an infected finger (Google it - it is true) and that the concert would be moved to a date in August, a date that we could not make as we would be back in Australia.
So that was 24 years ago, I have never forgotten that moment.... The Rolling Stones are touring Australia in March and I have bought myself 1 ticket, yes, I am going by myself because that was all that was available and I thought why could we not try and claim our prize here in Sydney, Australia? But how do I do it? Which is why I thought I would join this forum to see if any other Stones fans would have any feedback on what I could do.
I must admit I am not good with social media - something I try and avoid but if it gets me a chance to get the prize then why not give it a go!!!
Daisy
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That is quite a story, and all too bad you never got to see or meet them. First thing I would do is contact the organization that was giving the initial prize package. Was it Virgin? Was it a radio station? Who organized the prize. Contact them and tell them they owe you one because the concert was canceled ... then contact The Stones at their offices. It's sort of a long shot... but it's the best way to go about it. I wouldn't mention the rescheduling of the initial concert that took place a few months later. I would only push that the concert was canceled ...hence you (as well as nobody) ever got the prize. See if they are willing, and then if it's possible for them to set something up again.
Two things have to occur:
1. they have to be willing to give it another go.
2. They will then have to see if they can contact The Stones management/ public affairs...
Anythings possible .. so give it a try. Stranger things have happened.
Let us know where you get with it.
Ian
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1990 Urban Jungle Tour - Prize (Read 2,134 times)
