The Rolling Stones have added a second concert in London’s Hyde Park after the first show sold out in 5 minutes, reports the Daily Mail.
Tickets for the to-be-announced second show are expected to be on sale at some point this week, with the concert scheduled for around a day or two after the first performance on July 6.
The 65,000 tickets for the central London gig went within minutes of being put on general release on Friday morning.
"There are all these other artists out there this year – Bruce Springsteen, Justin Timberlake, Bon Jovi – but the tickets went as quickly as the system could do it. Wow... the Rolling Stones!” said AEG Live promoter Rob Hallett. “We sold 65,000 tickets in the speed the system could handle it. If the system could handle it in seconds, we would have probably sold out in seconds.”
The Stones' first-ever concert in Hyde Park, on July 5, 1969, was just two days after the death of founding member Brian Jones and marked the live debut of his replacement guitarist, Mick Taylor.
Keith Richards said he hoped there would be 'some emotion involved' in the new gig.
"Not going to turn this into the funeral, but any more than that, I think it's a celebration,” said Richards. “I think that it's a celebration for everybody really, for Brian, for everybody that was there and hopefully for loads of people that were not there the first time round. I'm really looking forward to it, it's an exciting piece of news when I got the news that we were going to play the park again.”
The London shows follow the band’s spring arena tour of North America, which launches in early May.
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