The Rolling Stones played in front of 50,000 fans at the rugby ground of their hometown, Twickenham, south-west London on Sunday for the first British concert of their world tour. The gig followed the cancellation of an Amsterdam date and the first London date due to Mick Jagger suffering from flu.
After opening their set with Brown Sugar, Jagger told the crowds: "Welcome welcome, this is the first night of our British tour. It wasn't going to be the first night, and you weren't going to be the first-night audience but anyway that's the way it worked out - and I'm glad you're all here. No one has ever played in the Twickenham Rugby Club before so we're very privileged. We started off playing at the Richmond Rugby Club up the road so it's not very far really from there to here."