Rolling Stones end 60-year ‘feud’ with The Beatles by playing one of their hits
THE Rolling Stones paid a touching tribute to the Beatles, by playing one of their old rivals’ songs in Liverpool.
It came as the bands continue to trade friendly banter after 60 years.
At Thursday’s Anfield gig, Mick Jagger said the Stones considered doing local anthem You’ll Never Walk Alone.
But he added: “We decided instead to do a cover of a song written by some other local lads so we’re doing this especially for you Liverpool, OK?”
He then belted out I Wanna Be Your Man, written for the Stones by John Lennon and Paul McCartney in 1963 before the Beatles recorded it themselves.
Last year McCartney, 79, said of the Stones: “I’m not sure I should say it, but they’re a blues cover band.”
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Mick, 78, later made fun of the jibe and said of McCartney on stage in LA: “He’s going to join us in the blues cover later on . . . ”
The Anfield gig was the band’s first in the UK without drummer Charlie Watts, who died last August aged 80.
Mick said: “We’d like to dedicate this show to Charlie.”
Their 60-date tour includes a gig at London’s Hyde Park on June 25 — on the same night McCartney headlines Glastonbury.
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