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On this day, Paul McCartney attended the Rolling Stones’ free concert in London’s Hyde Park. Despite persistent rumours leading up to the event, none of The Beatles appeared on stage with The Stones.
The concert was filmed for television, and Paul can be briefly spotted during the end credits.
In the musicians’ enclosure were Paul and Linda McCartney, Eric Clapton and girlfriend Alice Ormsby-Gore, Ginger Baker, Donovan, Chris Barber, Marsha Hunt, Kenny Lynch, Stevie Winwood and Mama Cass. On the stage were Marianne and her son Nicholas, Michael Cooper and Julie Felix. Allen Klein looked after my son Stephen.
Bill Wyman – From “Rolling With The Stones“, 2003
From Wikipedia:
The Stones in the Park was a free outdoor festival held in Hyde Park on 5 July 1969, headlined by the Rolling Stones and featuring Third Ear Band, King Crimson, Screw, Alexis Korner’s New Church, Family and the Battered Ornaments, in front of an estimated audience between 250,000–500,000 spectators.
It was the Stones’ first public concert in over two years, and was planned as an introduction of new guitarist, Mick Taylor, though circumstances inevitably changed following the death of former member Brian Jones two days earlier. The band rehearsed at the Beatles’ studio in a basement on Savile Row, and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards came up with a 14-song set; the Hyde Park concert would be the first time many of the songs had been played before a public audience. The PA system was supplied by Watkins Electric Music, who had handled amplification at previous Hyde Park events.
Fans started to arrive at the park with candles on 4 July in tribute to Jones, and by the morning of 5 July, 7,000 people had already gathered. Jagger read a short eulogy on stage before the Stones’ set began, reading two stanzas of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem on John Keats’s death, Adonaïs, from a calf-bound book. After this recital, several hundred cabbage white butterflies were released. The setlist for their performance was “I’m Yours & I’m Hers”, “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”. “Mercy Mercy”, “Down Home Girl”, “Stray Cat Blues”, “No Expectations”, “I’m Free”, “Loving Cup”, “Love in Vain”, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”, “Honky Tonk Women”, “Midnight Rambler”, “Street Fighting Man” and “Sympathy for the Devil”. During the 18-minute-long rendition of “Sympathy for the Devil”, a number of African tribal drummers joined the band.
While the event is considered a memorable one by several critics, they also agree that it was not one of the Stones’ best performances, and the guitars played during the concert were out of tune. In a 1971 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Richards evaluated their performance, “We played pretty bad until near the end, because we hadn’t played for years … Nobody minded, because they just wanted to hear us play again.” The Stones’ portion of concert was filmed by Granada Television and broadcast that September. It has since been released on DVD and Blu-ray. […]
Beatles & Stones: no concert…
It was disclosed by new Rolling Stone, Mick Taylor, on Saturday that as yet there has been no discussion at Apple pertaining to the prospective appearance of the Beatles at the Stones’ “live” Hyde Park concert on Saturday, July 5.
Mick, who drove down to the Bath Festival of Blues to see the Nice, explained: “There’s no truth in the rumour that the Beatles may appear at Hyde Park with us on Saturday. It was Mick Jagger’s idea to rehearse at Apple’s unfinished studio which led up to the story, but nothing has been said about doing this show with us. None of the Beatles are even there at Apple anyway, except John and Yoko occasionally, who have their own office. George dropped in briefly while we were practising, but he didn’t jam with us.
“Some people think there could be some trouble at the concert, but I think they are wrong. Some carry the old idea that Mick Jagger instigates violence on stage, but that’s outdated and completely untrue. If all goes well, we want to do a world tour which will be made up of all major cities, including those in Britain. It hasn’t been set up yet, but it’s something we’ve wanted to do for a long time. I think the live concerts are going to be a good thing; for this coming one we have an even more powerful PA system than was used at the Blind Faith show.”
The official billing has now been completed for the Stones concert. It will begin at one o’clock on Saturday, July 5 and will include The Edgar Broughton Band, Gypsy, The Battered Ornaments, the Third Ear Band and Screw.
The concert is being run by Blackhill Enterprises and the Les Perrin Organisation. Blackhill also handled the successful Blind Faith presentation.
From Record Mirror – July 5, 1969
