Jack’s not flash: Stones cancel gig after Jagger gets Covid
The Rolling Stones have been forced to cancel a concert just an hour and a half before it was due to start after Mick Jagger tested positive for Covid.
Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood at a Rolling Stones concert in 2018. The band had to cancel a concert in Amsterdam this week after Jagger came down with Covid. (Image: Raph_PH)
“The Rolling Stones are deeply sorry for tonight’s postponement, but the safety of the audience, fellow musicians and the touring crew has to take priority,” they said on Monday.
Jagger, 78, had experienced symptoms after arriving at Amsterdam’s Johan Cruijff ArenA, the band said.
Representatives for Mojo Concerts, which had organised the band’s appearance in the Netherlands, came onstage to inform the audience at ArenA, a football stadium, an hour and a half before the concert was due to begin.
“He can’t sing, he can’t play,” an unnamed announcer told fans. “There is no show tonight … it is what it is.”
Amsterdam was to be the fourth stop in the “Stones Sixty” European tour, following an appearance in Liverpool on Thursday.
