Stones open tour, pay tribute to Watts
The Rolling Stones are touring again, this time without their heartbeat, or at least their backbeat.
The legendary rockers launched their pandemicdelayed “No Filter” tour Sunday in St. Louis without their drummer of nearly six decades. It was clear from the outset just how much the band members — and the fans — missed Charlie Watts, who died last month at age 80. Except for a private show in Massachusetts, the St. Louis concert was their first since Watts’ death.
The show opened with an empty stage and only a drumbeat, with photos of Watts flashing on the video board. After the second song, “It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (But I Like It),” Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood came to the front of the stage. Jagger and Richards clasped hands as they thanked fans for the outpouring of support and love for Watts. Jagger acknowledged it was emotional seeing the photos of Watts.
“This is our first-ever tour we’ve ever done without him,” Jagger said. “We’ll miss Charlie so much, on and off the stage.”
The band then dedicated “Tumbling Dice” to Watts.
The concert featured the same driving beat personified by Watts, thanks to his replacement, Steve Jordan.
‘View’ hosts had false positives: The co-hosts of “The View” whose COVID-19 tests derailed a planned interview with Vice President Kamala Harris last week said Monday that their results turned out to be false positives.
Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro were pulled off the air Friday and in a startling moment of live television that forced an abbreviated Harris interview to be conducted remotely.
None of the hosts who were on Friday came into contact with Harris. Hostin and Navarro, along with Joy Behar and Sara Haines, were tested multiple times over the weekend, and all results were negative, the show said.
Ramone’s guitar sells for $900K-plus:
The guitar played by Johnny Ramone on all 15 Ramones albums and at nearly 2,000 live performances by the rock band sold at auction over the weekend for more than $900,000, the auctioneer said Monday. The 1965 Mosrite Ventures II electric guitar was bought by a U.S. collector who wishes to remain anonymous, Boston-based RR Auction said in a statement.
Ramone, whose real name was John Cummings, bought the guitar to replace his original blue Ventures II, which was stolen, according to RR Auction.
Majority of ‘SNL’ cast returning: After an offseason
of some mystery involving several favorite performers, “Saturday Night Live” said it was returning for its 47th year this weekend with all but one of its incumbent cast members on board.
Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, Kenan Thompson and Pete Davidson, all busy cast members whose returns were considered questionable, will all be coming back. Only Beck Bennett is exiting.
Owen Wilson is the host of Saturday’s seasonopener, with Kacey Musgraves as musical guest.
Sept. 28 birthdays: Actor Joel Higgins is 78. Actor Jeffrey Jones is 75. Actor Vernee Watson-Johnson is 72. Actor Mira Sorvino is 54. Actor Naomi Watts is 53. Rapper Jeezy is 44. Actor Peter Cambor is 43. Musician St. Vincent is 39. Comedian Phoebe Robinson is 37. Actor Hilary Duff is 34. Actor Keir Gilchrist is 29.