Montreal Star

Montreal Gazette

Ottawa Citizen

Weekend Magazine

Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar

Bitch

Bitch

Bitch

Rocks Off

Rocks Off

Gimme Shelter

Gimme Shelter

Gimme Shelter

Happy

Tumbling Dice

Tumbling Dice

Love In Vain

Love In Vain

Love In Vain

Sweet Virginia

Sweet Virginia

YCAGWYW

YCAGWYW

YCAGWYW

All Down The Line

All Down The Line

Midnight Rambler

Midnight Rambler

Midnight Rambler

Midnight Rambler

Bye Bye Johnny

JJF

JJF

JJF

SFM

SFM

SFM

Jagger: “white silk pant suit with a red sash”

Opening: Stevie Wonder

Jagger: “spangles in his hair, white velvet sequined pants, a purple jockey’s hat, a flowing red scarf, a blue work jacket, and a ruby in the middle of his forehead”

Opening: “Martha and the Vandellas”

Jagger: “a faded denim jacket over his skin-tight, white suit”

Opening: Stevie Wonder

Jagger: “a white, satiny, body-clinging jump suit” with “jean jacket and denim jockey cap”

Amusement Business: “The crowd of 20,000 was the largest, indoors, of the entire tour.”

Montreal Gazette: “At one point Jagger ducked sharply to his right as something flashed out of the audience. Without breaking his stride he went on singing, while an aide picked up a 40-ounce bottle and calmly moved it to one side. Miraculously it hadn’t even broken. Sparklers were lit and thrown, though again no one seemed to have been hurt, although this was no thanks to the thoughtless few who threw them. Some firecrackers were set off, too, but they were lost in the din of the crowd.”

Weekend Magazine: “CRACK! Jagger has heard every kind of firecracker, but this one sounded like a shot. He stopped for a microsecond and then kept going. Nobody noticed. He kept churning, moving to the heavy beat of All Down The Line. Two seconds later – CRACK! Then, exactly the same interval and another. It was precisely the spacing as if someone were aiming and firing. Jagger dropped to one knee, still gyrating to the music. He was badly frightened, I was later told...Ninety seconds later, a bottle sailed out of the crowd and hit him on the leg. He winced...Jagger didn’t know it wasn’t aimed at him. His truck had been bombed. People were shouting. The firecrackers sounded like shots. A bottle had just hit him. He wound up the song, giving Richards his end-it look.”

Weekend Magazine: “The next number was Midnight Rambler where Jagger and the Stones always catch fire for the final five-song crescendo. Jagger moved through it tightly. It was about the worst rendition of their showpiece song given on the tour. Jagger signaled an early end here too, cutting about three minutes from the song. ‘He was freaked,’ said Leonard. The rest of the show moved downward, not up. The house lights usually come on after Rip This Joint. Jagger wanted them on sooner, so the word was passed to cut Rip completely, get the lights up, get the last two songs done and get the hell out of here. They did. The crowd thought it was a great show.”

Montreal Gazette: “Jagger, who’s made his permanent home in the southern part of France, said he may try some of his recently-learned French on the Forum fans tonight.”

Le Devoir: “A un moment donné, il s’est écrié en français: ‘Merci beaucoup, vous êtes très gentils.’”

Montreal Gazette: “At one point Jagger screamed ‘très chaud, très chaud, très chaud’ and no one would argue with that.”

Ottawa Citizen: “By the finale, Street Fighting Man, Jagger had praised his audience in French, showered them with roses and water and tortured every last bit of energy from his musically possessed body.”

Montreal Star: “When Mick Jagger had finished his singing and dancing he threw buckets of water over the sweat-soaked audience and they drew up their arms as if receiving benediction.”

Montreal Gazette: “Then the last number – a perfect finale for the you-can-stuff-it-if-you-don’t-like-it Stones: Street Fightin’ Man. Up went the power salutes, and I honestly believe that, at that moment, Jagger could have unleashed some real havoc on Montreal if he had wanted to see some serious trashing done...But Jagger threw six dozen roses worth of petals to the crowd, shot up the peace sign, scampered offstage, and disappeared.”

Montreal Star: “It was oppressively hot in the Forum and Mick flung bucketfuls of water at the audience and then the rose petals and soon they marched off never to be seen again. The crowd yelled in vain for an encore.”

Montreal Gazette: “A helicopter had been on standby duty on the roof in case the group could not leave by conventional means. It was not needed.”

Weekend Magazine: “Later, there was a party in Jagger’s room. He looked tired and washed out. ‘Not good, man,’ he said. ‘It wasn’t good.’”