Like Madonna, the Rolling Stones have already played a historic show at Copacabana;  Remember

Like Madonna, the Rolling Stones have already played a historic show at Copacabana; Remember


The band performed on the sands of Rio de Janeiro beach in front of 1.5 million people in what was described by the group itself as “the greatest rock show in history”; Madonna performs on the beach at

The free proves it Madonna will do on the beach Copacabanato the Rio de Janeiro, has already caused quite a stir. The details of the highly anticipated performance, which in recent weeks has generated rumors and a rush for hotels and tickets, were announced on the afternoon of Monday 25th, at a press conference in Rio, where Madonna will perform on May 4th. READ MORE HERE.

The Queen of Pop, however, is not the first to bet on a great show on the Rio seafront. In 2006, the gang Rolling stones held a historic show on the sands of Copacabana. It is estimated that the group managed to bring together 1.5 million people in what is described by the band itself as “the biggest rock show in history”.

Boats and yachts were anchored at sea. On the sand, people from all over the world flocked to watch the free show held a week before Carnival on February 18. At the time, international shows were not as frequent as they are today. And the Rolling Stones, one of the greatest bands of all time. Expectations, therefore, were high.

In addition to the million and a half people who went to see the show, it is estimated that 1.5 thousand people worked on the production as described by Estadao like an “out of season New Year’s Eve”. The presentation cost R$10.6 million: today the value is equivalent to approximately R$35 million, according to calculations in the report based on the Citizen Calculator.

It was the third time Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts AND Ronnie Wood paid a visit to the capital Rio de Janeiro. They had already performed at the Maracanã and Praça da Apoteose, but chose Copacabana to record the show, which was part of the tour The biggest shoton DVD.

The presentation included the opening of Titans, a strong band in national rock. At around 9.45pm, the Stones took the stage to the sounds of Jumping Jack Flash. The show lasted about 2 hours and ended with (I can’t get a no) Satisfactionprobably the band’s biggest hit.

The group also released a sequence of some of their biggest hits Sympathy for the devil, initiate me, Brown sugar AND You can’t always get what you want. On the band’s official YouTube there are videos of the performance, as well as a documentary, divided into 11 parts, on the production of the show.

Source: Terra

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