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Mick Jagger is now 62. Keith Richards, 61. Charlie Watts, 64. Ronnie Wood, 58. A combined age of 245 years. They ought to have retired at 232. And yet, on August 21, in Boston's Fenway Park, the four kicked off A Bigger Bang, their world tour to promote a new album of the same name. For a few hours that night, 36,000 fans felt what a billion others already have. The manic exhilaration of rock 'n' roll.
Mumbai felt it on April 7, 2003, when the Stones hit Brabourne Stadium. From a dark, brooding stage, amid speakers that hissed menacingly, Keith Richards emerged to crank out the riff of Start Me Up. Jagger followed, blue-jacketed, oozing sexuality like a man half his age.
I knew what it felt, then, to want to throw him your knickers.
Special: The Rolling Stones lick Mumbai!
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