I just found this on wikipedia and it brought back memories… of violence. Funny that no one followed up after the 1969 Tour (especially after Altamont), if they had they would have seen…The Rolling Stones‘ 1970 European Tour was a concert tour of Continental Europe that took place during the late summer and early fall of 1970.
Following a tradition set since the band’s earliest days, the tour was not without its altercations. The show at Råsunda stadion in Stockholm on September 4 was interrupted by police who feared that fans, provoked by Jagger, would storm the stage. The singer duly responded by pointing the microphone to the police on stage and soon after suggested the audience would sit down for the next song (the slower “Love in Vain”).[1] On September 14 a thousand or so forged tickets were rejected at a show at Ernst-Merck-Halle in Hamburg; two hundred policemen were needed to handle disappointed fans. Two days later at Deutschlandhalle in West Berlin, there were nasty battles between assorted youths and the police before the show, and some 50 arrests were made. Then on October 1 at Milan‘s Palazzo Dello Sport, two thousand youths tried to crash the gates to get into the show. Police had to use tear gas to quell the riot; there were injuries among both the policemen and the crowd, and 63 arrests were made.
I recently had an interview and they asked what surprised me most about being on the road with the Stones… I answered, ” getting out alive.”
