The Rolling Stones
Isle Of Wight Festival
10th June, 2007

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The Stones were wild, brushing aside all that preceded like matchsticks, especially a fashionable combo with a chubby singer. Sir Mick’s no working class hero, despite his insistence that he’d camped out among the multitude. Yet, while everyone else had been half-killing themselves to work up the throng, the Stones were casually cataclysmic, delivering a show with thought on a hydraulically-operated platform that bore them into the centre of the arena. For 20 minutes, the figures beneath the proscenium with the horns and backing chorale became mortals. Room was found for the recent Rough Justice, a just-sufficiently ramshackle You Got Me Rockin’, the lull of two lead vocals from Keith, and respective duets with Jagger by Paolo Nutini and Amy Winehouse. Yet it was Satisfaction, Brown Sugar, the Jumping Jack Flash encore and the other ancient crowd-pleasers that hung longest in the air.

Reviewed by Alan Clayson
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