Knoxville

Friday, July 7

 

    The local press offers nine song references already available via the Knoxville audience tape.  Perhaps the only fresh marker is the purple jumpsuit visual.

 

 

 

Knoxville Journal

 

Knoxville News Sentinel

 

UT Daily Beacon

Brown Sugar

 

 

no songs mentioned

Brown Sugar

 

 

 

 

Gimme Shelter

 

Happy

Happy

Tumbling Dice

Tumbling Dice

 

 

“country-flavored song”

Sweet Virginia

YCAGWYW

YCAGWYW

 

 

Midnight Rambler

Midnight Rambler

 

 

 

 

JJF

JJF

 

SFM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opening: Stevie Wonder

 

 

Jagger: “purple velvet jump-suit with silver studs, a floor-length gold sash and white surgeon’s shoes with white socks”

 

Opening: Stevie Wonder

 

 

Knoxville Journal: “Lead singer Jagger, looking like the devil in drag, opened with Brown Sugar, the song written for his wife. His movements and dancing were in keeping with his image as the epitome of evil sexuality. The audience loved it.”

 

Rolling Stone [letter to editor, August 17, 1972]: “I want to go on record as the first to say when the Stones played Knoxville July 7, Mick Jagger reached in the box to get a fistful of rose petals, but wound up with a fried chicken breast instead. I saw it; it was far out.”

 

 

 

Selected Press Clippings

 

Knoxville Journal

 

Knoxville News Sentinel

 

UT Daily Beacon2