Concerts - Stones Hit the Road in Late 2012

The Rolling Stones will play a small handful of shows in 2012 during the 50th anniversary year of the group’s founding, Billboard is reporting.

The trade publication says Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Charlie Watts and company will do a pair of shows in London, and another double-header in Brooklyn in November, countering band members’ previous assertions that the band wouldn’t be hitting the road this year.


But the group's official website has no information about any such dates, and the Stones' U.S. spokeswoman did not respond immediately to The Times' request to confirm the report.

The London shows, will be at the O2 Arena, and the Brooklyn dates will be at the Barclays Center.  Richard Branson and Australian promoter Paul Dainty will promote these shows, rather than Michael Cohl, who has been promoting the Stones’ tours for decades.

Richards started to change his tune in July about the band not being ready to tour in 2012, telling the BBC: “There’s things in the works. Things are definitely happening. But when? I can’t say yet.”