The Rose Bowl is going to be rocking — and rolling — again in 2019.
The Rolling Stones will bring its 2019 ‘No Filter’ U.S. tour to the 90,000-seat Pasadena venue May 11, the band announced Monday.
“Their band and our venue are both icons. … It’s such a great fit for us,” said Darryl Dunn, CEO and general manager of the Rose Bowl. “This is big-time, having the Stones here.”
The spring tour will span more than a dozen dates across the United States and will include stops in New Jersey, Chicago, Denver and more. Tickets will go on sale 10 a.m. Friday Nov. 30 with a pre-sale starting Nov. 28.
The band, whose members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood are all in their seventies, previously played the Rose Bowl on in 1994 on its Voodoo Lounge tour.
The Rose Bowl celebrated the news with a reveal of the band’s iconic logo at the stadium on Monday while the UCLA marching band played the Stones’ hit “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”
As part of the British Invasion, the group played first played its first U.S. date in Southern California at San Bernardino’s Swing Auditorium on June, 5 1964.
The group last performed in the area at 2016’s Desert Trip where they played a mix of classic songs, a few surprises and a cover of the Beatles’ “Come Together” over two weekends for an audience of 150,000 people that included Sir Paul McCartney.
Rumors that the band, whose last performance was a concert in Prague in July, would be returning to the States have been rumbling on fan sites, and the band added to the speculation by posting an animated gif on its Twitter showing the band’s logo rising over the Statue of Liberty.
The appearance of the band’s logo in the wild also seemed to indicate something was up.
