1990
Head back to the jungle
1990
Head back to the jungle
January 1990: Keith Richards spends the month in Antigua.
Bill Wyman works on his autobiography.
January 5, 1990: Ron Wood leaves his London home for a
holiday in Ireland.
January 18, 1990: Jerry Hall announces again to the press
that she and
Mick Jagger will marry.
February 1990: The
Rolling Stones'
documentary, 25 X 5: The Continuing Adventures of the
Rolling
Stones,
is released on video.
February 4, 1990: Keith Richards and Ron Wood leave London
for Japan. Bill
Wyman stays behind because of his
father's illness.
February 5, 1990: Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts fly from
New York to Japan.
| Ron Wood
(2003): Equal on the payroll after 15 years
Before we went to Japan, on the Steel Wheels tour, my pals Charlie and Bill stood up for me. They said, Are you earning as much as we are? and I said, No. So they said, Unless you earn as much as us, we're not going to carry on. They brought this up at a meeting and I thought, Thank you very much! Bill and Charlie were very supportive. They made a stand for me without me having to beg and say, I'm being unfairly treated. They said, Ronnie's slaved away as hard as we have and he's not getting as much as us. And the rest of the band said, Right, OK, we'll finally end your apprenticeship, you're finally part of the band. |
February 6-9, 1990: The
Rolling
Stones, minus Bill Wyman, start tour rehearsals at the Mza
nightclub in
Tokyo,
Japan.
February 9, 1990: The
Rolling
Stones, minus Bill Wyman, hold a press conference at
Korakuen Hall in
Tokyo
to announce
the 1990 Steel Wheels Japan Tour.
February 10-11, 1990: The
Rolling
Stones, still without Bill Wyman, hold more rehearsals.
February 11, 1990: Bill Wyman arrives in Japan. The other
four Rolling
Stones witness a Mike Tyson boxing match
in Tokyo.
February 12-13, 1990:
Bill Wyman
joins the Rolling Stones for the final tour rehearsals.
February 14, 1990: The
Rolling
Stones perform the first of ten concerts at Tokyo Dome in Japan,
their
first
ever
performances in that country.
February 15, 1990: Bill Wyman and Ron Wood promote books
at a Tokyo bookstore.
February 16-21, 1990: The
Rolling
Stones perform five more concerts at Tokyo Dome.
February 21, 1990: Keith Richards joins his wife Patti in
a Tokyo hospital
following her mother's heart atttack.
February 22, 1990: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ron
Wood bring their
children to the Korakuen Amusent Park.
February 23-24, 1990: The
Rolling
Stones perform another two shows at Tokyo Dome.
February 26, 1990: Bill Wyman learns his father has died
back in England.
February 26-27, 1990: The
Rolling
Stones end their first ever tour of Japan by performing
their two last
concerts at
Tokyo Dome.
February 28, 1990: Bill Wyman leaves Japan for England.
Early March 1990: Charlie Watts and Mick Jagger return to
England, and
Ron Wood returns to his new home in
Ireland. Keith Richards visits Paul McCartney in Tokyo,
then flies to Antigua
for the month.
March 3, 1990: Bill Wyman attends his father's funeral in
England.
March 8, 1990: Bill Wyman
arrives at his home in the South of France and continues
writing his book.
March 14, 1990: Bill Wyman
attends a Chris Rea and Andyfairweather Low concert in
Nice, France.
Mid-March 1990: Mick Jagger spends some time in Paris,
France.
March 18-21, 1990: Keith Richards returns to New York City
to celebrate
his daughter Theodora and wife Patti's
birthdays and visit his mother-in-law at the hospital. He
is also interviewed
on New York radio for a
rainforest-saving broadcast.
March 22, 1990: Mick
Jagger holds
a press conference at the Tabernacle Club in London,
England, to
announce the
Rolling Stones' 1990 Urban Jungle Tour of Europe.
March 22, 1990: Keith Richards flies back to Antigua from
New York City.
March 27, 1990: Ringo Starr visits Bill
Wyman at his home in Vence, France.
April 1990: Keith Richards spends most of the month in
Antigua, while Mick
Jagger stays in London and Paris.
April 25, 1990: Bill Wyman and Ringo Starr have dinner at La Colombe d'Or in Vence, France.
April 26, 1990: Keith Richards returns
to New York for a few days.
April 28, 1990: Keith Richards leaves New York for Paris,
France.
April 30-May 11, 1990:
The Rolling
Stones start tour rehearsals for their European tour at the
Château
du
Dangu near
Paris, France.
May 12, 1990: The band members start arriving in
Rotterdam, Netherlands.
May 15-18, 1990: The
Rolling Stones
finish their European tour rehearsals at Feyenoord Stadium
in
Rotterdam,
Netherlands.
May 18-21, 1990: The
Rolling Stones
kick off the 1990 Urban Jungle tour, their first
tour of Europe
in
eight
years,
with three concerts at Feyenoord Stadium in Rotterdam,
Netherlands. The
tour features
a
different
theme and stage from Steel Wheels.
| Mick Jagger
(2003): Urban jungle
We created another version of (the Steel Wheels staging) for Europe - the Urban Jungle tour - and designed a whole set of fresh visuals featuring lots of dogs. We couldn't use all the steel we had used on the Steel Wheels tour, because we couldn't afford it for Europe - the ticket prices wouldn't support it - and so we had to scale it down somewhat. |
May 20, 1990: Charlie Watts visits a Van Gogh exhibition
in Rotterdam.
May 23-31, 1990: The
Rolling Stones
perform two stadium concerts each in the West German cities
of
Hannover,
Frankfurt and Cologne.
June 1, 1990: Ron Wood and Charlie Watts celebrate their
birthdays at their
hotel bar in Munich, West Germany.
June 2-3, 1990: The
Rolling Stones
perform two concerts at Munich's Olympic Stadium.
June 5, 1990: In Berlin, the Rolling Stones visit the
Berlin Wall getting pulled down.
June 6, 1990: The Rolling
Stones
perform a stadium concert in West Berlin.
June 10, 1990: The
Rolling Stones
perform their first ever concert in Portugal,
at Lisbon's Avalade
Stadium.
June 13 & 17, 1990:
The Rolling
Stones perform two stadium concerts each in Barcelona and
Madrid,
Spain.
June 15, 1990: Keith Richards and Charlie Watts record a
Charlie Mingus
jazz piece in Madrid for a tribute album.
June 20-25, 1990: The
Rolling
Stones swing through France, performing at the Velodrome in
Marseilles,
followed by
three concerts at Paris' Parc des Princes.
June 27, 1990: The
Rolling Stones
perform at St. Jakob Stadium in Basel, Switzerland.
June 28-July 3, 1990: The group spends a week on holiday.
Keith Richards
stays in England, Ron Wood in Ireland
and Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman in France.
July 3, 1990: The band all arrive in London.
July 4-7, 1990: The
Rolling Stones
perform three concerts at Wembley Stadium in London,
England.
July 9, 1990: The Rolling
Stones
perform at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland.
July 10, 1990: Keith
Richards
is treated at a London hospital for a seriously infected
finger and the
Rolling
Stones
postone their next three concerts: one in Cardiff, Wales,
and two more
at Wembley
Stadium. This
is the first time in their history that the group has to
postpone or cancel
concerts
because
of
illness.
July 14, 1990: The Rolling Stones, minus Keith Richards,
host a party at
The Serpentine Gallery in London, England,
with Jeff Beck and Elton John among the guests.
July 16, 1990: The
Rolling Stones
resume the Urban Jungle tour with the rescheduled
concert at
Cardiff's
Arms Park, their first in Wales since 1966.
July 17, 1990: Back in London, Bill Wyman visits his sick
wife Mandy Smith
in the hospital for her 20th birthday.
July 18-21, 1990: The
Rolling
Stones perform in north England, with a show at St. James
Park in
Newcastle
and two concerts at Maine Road Stadium in Manchester.
July 25-26, 1990: Mick
celebrates
his 47th birthday onstage in Rome, Italy, as the Rolling
Stones
perform
two
concerts in Stadio Flamino.
July 28, 1990: The
Rolling Stones
continue through Italy with a concert at Turin's Stadio
Delle Alpi,
which
is filmed
in IMAX format for a projected concert movie.
July 29, 1990: The
Rolling Stones
film scenes without a crowd at Stadio Delle Alpi for the
concert movie.
July 31, 1990: The
Rolling Stones
perform at Vienna's Prater Stadion.
August 3-9, 1990: The
Rolling
Stones swing through Scandinavia, performing stadium
concerts twice
each in
Gothenburg
(Sweden) and Oslo (Norway), then once in Copenhagen
(Denmark).
August 13-14, 1990: The
Rolling
Stones performing for the first time of their career in East
Germany,
playing
two
shows in East Berlin's Radrennbahn Weissensee, the second of
which is filmed
again for
the
IMAX movie.
August 16, 1990: The
Rolling Stones
perform for the first time in Gelsenkirchen, West Germany.
August 18, 1990: The
Rolling Stones
visit with Vaclav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia,
in Prague.
They
then
perform for the first time ever in the country, at the
city's Strahov Stadium
to more than
100 000
people.
Posters in the city read Tanks are rolling out, the
Stones are rolling
in.
August 19, 1990: The
Rolling Stones
fly back to London, England, resting for a week before the
tour's
final
concerts.
| Charlie
Watts & Ron Wood (2003): Bill's fear of flying
Charlie: (Bill) was extremely paranoid about flying, which I hadn't realised, although he drove everywhere on the Urban Jungle tour that we did in Europe. I thought it was just him going off on one of his own things. Ron: Bill had been heading that way for years, and the more planes we got on the worse it got. In the end he'd taken too many plane flights. In fact the last flight he took with us, he said, Hey, look out here. I looked out of the window and he said, See that stuff coming off the wing? I said, Yeah, that's condensation, but Bill said, No it's not. That's fuel. It's leaking. |
August 24-25, 1990: The
Rolling
Stones end their 1989-90 world tour, the biggest of their
career and
largest-grossing
in rock history at this point, with the two additional,
rescheduled concerts
at
London's Wembley
Stadium. The concerts are again filmed for the IMAX movie
and are Bill
Wyman's
last
ever
public performances with the group. An end-of-tour party is
held at the Roof Gardens in
Kensington.
August 27, 1990: Mick Jagger sees Bernard Fowler perform
with his band
Tackhead in Reading, England, near
London.
September 1990: Mick Jagger spends some time in France.
Charlie and Shirley
Watts holiday in Poland.
Mid-September 1990: Keith Richards returns to New York
from London.
September 19, 1990: Keith Richards leaves New York for a
lengthy stay in
Jamaica.
September 21, 1990: Charlie Watts calls
Bill Wyman to tell him there are gold records for him at
the Rolling Stones'
office.
Early October 1990: Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall leave for
southcentral and
eastern Asia for six weeks, visiting India,
Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan and Indonesia.
October 8, 1990: Mick Jagger and Bill
Wyman discuss future Rolling Stones business over the
telephone.
October 10, 1990: Charlie Watts and
Bill Wyman hold a meeting with a lawyer to discuss Rolling
Stones business
and future
contracts.
Late December 1990: Mick Jagger spends the holidays with
his family on
the island of Mustique.