The Rolling Stones - Las Vegas

Age Requirement: 
All ages. Under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. 

It's hard to overestimate the importance of the Rolling Stones in rock and roll history. The group, which formed in London in 1962, distilled so much of the music that had come before it and has exerted a decisive influence on so much that has come after. Every album the group released through the early Seventies - from The Rolling Stones in 1964 to Exile on Main Street in 1972 - is essential not simply to an understanding of the music of that era, but to an understanding of the era itself.

The Stones' live shows - epitomised, of course, by Jagger's galvanising erotic choreography - had earned the band its reputation in its earliest years, and that flame was being rekindled. Musicians live and create in the moment, and that's why fans still go see the Stones. Certainly there's also a catalogue of songs that only a handful of artists could rival. Surely there's also the desire to encounter a band that has played a pristine role in defining our very idea of what rock & roll is. But seeing the Rolling Stones live is to see a working band playing as hard as they can, and there's no last time for that.