Metro.co.uk Rudge jokes of his time on the road with the rock legends, ‘if you can remember it you weren’t there’.Still, he does recall one rather large roadblock in his efforts to get the Sir Mick Jagger-fronted group safely from city to city.He says: ‘The first Stones tour, the biggest problem I had was not booking the venues but finding a hotel that would accommodate the Stones.’Rudge goes on: ‘They were frightened.
They saw the Stones as the ambassadors of unrest and political activism. Rebellion. They saw them as a threat.‘It was a different cultural fabric then.
It was much more organic. Things like Woodstock… it was chaotic, but there was a certain exhilaration and wonder.’Musing it’s since ‘become a business’ the manager says of the.
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