Rolling Stones coming to Heinz Field in October
You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need ... about 16 months later.
The Rolling Stones are coming to Heinz Field on Oct. 4 as part of their newly rescheduled No Filter Tour, the band announced Thursday morning.
The rock icons were originally scheduled to come to Pittsburgh in June 2020, but then, you know, the world shut down. It was among the first big shows to cancel.
“I’m so excited to get back on the stage again and want to thank everyone for their patience. See you soon!” said frontman Mick Jagger.
The ageless wonder will turn 78 on Monday. In 2019, he had a heart valve replacement and was back onstage in six weeks.
His partner in crime, Keith Richards, is 77, and the senior member of the band, drummer Charlie Watts, turned 80 in June. The baby of the group, 74-year-old guitarist Ronnie Wood, was recently cleared by doctors after a bout with lung cancer.
With the band having formed in 1962, this show comes just short of its 60th anniversary.
This will be the band’s first visit to Pittsburgh since June 20, 2015, when they played Heinz Field on the Zip Code Tour, on an evening when a rainbow wrapped around the stage just before showtime.
It was a 19-song set that opened with “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” closed with “Satisfaction” and was packed with classics like “Sympathy for the Devil,” “Brown Sugar,” “Gimme Shelter” and “Honky Tonk Women.” The fan request song that night was “Paint It, Black,” and the newest track was “Doom and Gloom,” a 2012 song that captured the vibe of their early magic.
For the new tour, the Stones will likely roll out “Living in a Ghost Town,” a song they dropped to help soundtrack the pandemic in 2020.
Jagger told Apple Music, “It wasn’t written for now, but it was just one of those odd things. It was written about being in a place which was full of life but is now bereft of life so to speak. … I was just jamming on the guitar and wrote it really quickly in like 10 minutes.”
This will be the third stop of the tour, which begins Sept. 26 in St. Louis. Some of the nearby stops — including Louisville, Ky.; Cleveland; and Buffalo, N.Y. — were not able to be rescheduled.
Incidentally, the Steelers will be visiting the Green Bay Packers in Wisconsin the previous afternoon.
Tickets purchased for the
original date will be honored, and there are still tickets available at Ticketmaster.
No Filter Tour dates
Sept. 26: St. Louis, The Dome at America’s Center
Sept. 30: Charlotte, N.C., Bank of America Stadium
Oct. 4: Pittsburgh, Heinz Field
Oct. 9: Nashville, Tenn., Nissan Stadium
Oct. 13: New Orleans, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
Oct. 17: Los Angeles, SoFi Stadium
Oct. 24: Minneapolis, U.S. Bank Stadium
Oct. 29: Tampa, Fla., Raymond James Stadium
Nov. 2: Dallas, Cotton Bowl Stadium
Nov. 6: Las Vegas, Allegiant Stadium
Nov. 11: Atlanta, Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Nov. 15: Detroit, Ford Field
Nov. 20: Austin, Texas, Circuit of The Americas