Watch the Rolling Stones Honor the Beatles During Liverpool Show

The Rolling Stones honored the Beatles throughout a efficiency in Liverpool on June 9, delivering a rendition of the Lennon-McCartney penned tune “I Wanna Be Your Man.”

The efficiency marked the Stones first live performance in Liverpool in additional than 50 years, a incontrovertible fact that was not misplaced on frontman Mick Jagger. “It’s nice to be again in Liverpool after such a very long time. Very long time, no see,” the singer reportedly informed the gang.

Early within the set, Jagger recommended that the band might play a rendition of “You’ll By no means Stroll Alone,” the anthem of native soccer workforce Liverpool FC. “However, we determined as a substitute to do a canopy of a music written by another native lads,” the Stones frontman declared, “so we’re doing this particularly for you Liverpool, OK?”

From there the group launched into “I Wanna Be Your Man,” the basic music penned by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, however initially launched by the Rolling Stones. The Beatles songwriting duo famously gave the tune to their counterparts in 1963, with the Stones’ model reaching No. 12 on the U.Ok. chart. The Beatles’ model could be launched three weeks in a while U.Ok. album With the Beatles.

In keeping with Setlist.fm, the Rolling Stones final pelayed “I Wanna Be Your Man” throughout a 2012 live performance at Barclays Middle in Brooklyn, N.Y. See footage from their Liverpool efficiency beneath.

Earlier within the evening, the Stones started their set with a video tribute to drummer Charlie Watts, who died final August. This marked the primary U.Ok. efficiency for the band since Watts’ loss of life, which Jagger acknowledged to the gang.

“In 1962 we met a drummer referred to as Charlie Watts and that is our first tour in England we’ve executed with out him so we’d wish to dedicate this present to Charlie,” the frontman introduced.