Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones reach their 50th anniversary next year, but the 68-year-old band front man said Sunday that the group likely won’t tour on the occasion.
“A band gets trapped,” Jagger told the U.K. paper the Sun. “When a band starts as a blues band, it always remains sort of true to that.”
According to the Detroit Free Press, Jagger’s statements were intended to quash rumors that the Rolling Stones were planning an anniversary tour after Jagger met last week with fellow band members Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood. It was speculated that the group would use the 2012 Summer Olympics in London to kick off the hypothetical tour.
The Detroit Free Press reported that Jagger and Richards may have had a falling out after Richards mocked Jagger in his recent memoir, “Life.” In May, however, Richards stated that he and Jagger were fine and that the band was discussing plans to celebrate its 50-year mark.
Since then, Jagger has been busy playing with his new act, SuperHeavy, which features Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart, Joss Stone, Damian Marley and film composer A.R. Rahman.
The Rolling Stones played their first gig in London almost 50 years ago, in July 1962, the Detroit Free Press noted.
