Rolling Stones setlist: Every song they sang in Phoenix on the 2024 Hackney Diamonds Tour
The Rolling Stones are now three concerts into a 2024 tour in support of last year's "Hackney Diamonds," their first new album of original material in nearly 20 years.
And Mick Jagger is thrilled to have those new songs in the set, sharing space with such crowd-pleasing classics as “Honky Tonk Women” and “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”
As Jagger enthused in a recent interview with The Arizona Republic, “I love playing the old songs and all that. But it's great to be able to have something new because you haven't done it before. It's a challenge to you to get it over to the audience and see if they like it.”
The Stones played three songs from that new release when the Hackney Diamonds Tour hit State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ, on Tuesday, May 7, the same as they’d done at the tour launch in Houston on April 28 and again on May 2 at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
For Mick Jagger, 3 new songs seems right for a stadium setlist
Jagger told The Republic he would love to do more songs from "Hackney Diamonds," but three seems about right for a stadium crowd.
“It's more difficult with a stadium crowd,” he said. “Because they want to hear, you know…. 'Oh, I've come here to hear 'Paint It, Black...' 'When are they gonna play 'Honky Tonk Women'?"
There were plenty of songs as iconic as “Honky Tonk Women” and “Paint It, Black” in the mix at Tuesday’s concert, from the opening riff of “Start Me Up” through “Sympathy for the Devil,” “Gimme Shelter,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and an encore-closing “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”
Keith Richards took the mic for “Little T&A” from “Tattoo You,” a song they hadn’t done since 2016 before this tour launched, introducing it as "She's My Little Rock 'n' Roll."
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Houston saw the first appearance on a U.S. setlist of “Out of Time,” a classic that first appeared on the U.K. edition of “Aftermath” in 1966. They also dusted that one off at Jazz Fest, but Jagger said the U.S. crowds weren’t feeling it, so Phoenix didn’t get that one.
As Jagger told the Republic, “In Europe, they all sang along and everything. Here, they don't seem to know the song, you know? I mean, it's not a particularly well-known Stones song. It got a bit of popularity because it was in that (Quentin) Tarantino movie as a playout song. But they don't seem to know it. I put it in the front of the set, or near the front. And everyone's looking around like, ‘Ehh, what's this?’”
Glendale saw the tour debut of 'She's So Cold,' 'It's Only Rock 'n Roll' and 'Monkey Man'
With all those staples to get in the set, there’s not a lot of room to change things up, but they've been managing.
New Orleans saw the tour debut of “Let It Bleed,” “Time Is on My Side” as a duet with local soul queen Irma Thomas, whose 1964 recording inspired the Stones to cover it, and “Whole Wide World” from the new release.
At State Farm Stadium, we got three songs that hadn’t made the setlist yet on this tour — "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)," "She's So Cold" and "Monkey Man," which won the online fan vote, beating out a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone,” “Emotional Rescue” and “Heartbreaker.”
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Rolling Stones set list 2024: Every song they played in Phoenix
Here's a look at every song the Rolling Stones performed at State Farm Stadium. Full review to follow here at azcentral.com.
“Start Me Up”
“It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (but I Like It)” (tour debut)
“She's So Cold”
“Angry”
“Beast of Burden”
“Monkey Man” (tour debut; fan-voted song)
“Mess It Up”
“Tumbling Dice”
“You Can't Always Get What You Want” (followed by band introductions)
“Little T&A” (Keith Richards on lead vocals)
“Sympathy for the Devil”
“Honky Tonk Women”
“Miss You”
“Gimme Shelter”
“Paint It, Black”
“Jumpin' Jack Flash”
Encore:
“Sweet Sounds of Heaven”
“(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction”
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