The Rolling Stones : Stones In The Park 1969

THE ROLLING STONES

"STONES IN THE PARK"

HYDE PARK

LONDON 07/05/69

The Stones in the Park 

was a 

free outdoor festival 

held in Hyde Park

 on July,5th 1969, 

headlined by

 The Rolling Stones 

and featuring 

Third Ear Band, 

King Crimson, 

Screw, 

Alexis Korner's New Church,

 Family 

and 

the Battered Ornaments, 

in front of an

estimated audience 

between

 250,000 

and 

500,000 spectators.

It was the Stones' 

first public concert

 in over two years, 

and was planned as

 an introduction 

of their new guitarist, 

Mick Taylor, 

though circumstances 

inevitably changed

 following the death 

of former member 

Brian Jones 

two days earlier. 

The band rehearsed 

at the Beatles' studio

 in a basement on 

Savile Row, 

and Mick Jagger

 and Keith Richards 

came up with a

 14-song set; 

the Hyde Park concert 

would be the 

first time many 

of the songs

 had been played 

before a public audience.

 The PA system 

was supplied by 

Watkins Electric Music, 

who had handled 

amplification at

 previous

 Hyde Park events.

Hyde Park concert 

would be Taylor's

 first gig 

with the band, 

and as they had barely

 had any time

 to rehearse 

with him

 he was 

understandably nervous

TRACK LIST

Eulogy For Brian Jones

I'm Yours And I'm Hers

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Mercy Mercy

Stray Cat Blues

No Expectations

I'm Free

Down Home Girl

Love In Vain

Loving Cup

Honky Tonk Women

Midnight Rambler

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Street Fighting Man

Sympathy For The Devil

.

Mick Jagger

of

the Rolling Stones

read a small part

of the poem

on the

Brian Jones memorial concert

at London's Hyde Park

on July,5th 1969.

Brian Jones,

founder and guitarist

of the Stones,

had drowned

July,3rd 1969

in his

swimming pool.

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep He hath awakened from the dream of life 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings. - We decay Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief Convulse us and consume us day by day, And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments. - Die, If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek! Follow where all is fled!

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