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50 years of the Rolling Stones | Arts News

50 years of the Rolling Stones

Activities surrounding the Golden Jubilee of the Rolling Stones will include an officially sanctioned new book of "photographs and ephemera", The Rolling Stones: 50, to be published by Thames & Hudson on 12 July 2012. That date is the 50th anniversary of their debut gig, which was at London's Marquee club, although drummer Charlie Watts didn't join until January 1963. A new documentary film, directed by Brett Morgen and charting the band's half century using masses of unseen footage and unreleased music, will be ready in September, and a Greatest Hits box set of Stones music is also being mooted. But according to Keith Richards the Stones won't tour until 2013. "Basically, we're just not ready," said the guitarist, who is still feeling the after effects of a head injury he suffered in Fiji in 2006.

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