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• 8.60 / 10 45 reviews | 468 travellers Immerse yourself in the expertise and beauty of diamond polishing, which now has no secrets. Great discovery! 8 Perrine Mannechez
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Visit the oldest diamond polishing factory in the world with this guided tour of Royal Experience in Amsterdam. Become an expert in Dutch jewelry history!

Located opposite Amsterdam's iconic Rijksmuseum, the Royal Experience Amsterdam jewelry and diamond polishing workshop was founded in 1840 . Since then, its gems have captivated illustrious world-famous personalities such as Queen Victoria I of England, Empress Sissi of Austria and Napoleon Bonaparte himself.

At the time of your choice, we'll begin a guided tour of the Royal Experience Amsterdam facilities . During the tour, which lasts about 30 minutes , you'll learn all about this company's long history and the famous people who have oohed and aahed over its brilliant diamonds.

Learn how diamonds are shaped, cut and polished , and discover how Amsterdam became known as "the city of diamonds . " You'll also get to see firsthand how the esteemed goldsmiths and diamond polishers of Royal Experience Amsterdam work.

We'll continue the tour in the exhibition halls , which house a large display of loose diamonds of all shapes and sizes . Among them is the patented Royal 201 diamond , deemed the most brilliant diamond in the world !

At the end of the guided tour, you'll receive a gift bag with a diamond viewing magnifying glass and a few other surprises.

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30 minutes.

The activity takes place with a guide that speaks in English.

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Closing time, enjoy a royal coster experience tour at coster diamonds in amsterdam, the oldest diamond polishing factory in europe. since their establishment in 1840, royals from all over the world have visited amsterdam to see the dutch craftsmanship. royal visitors include empress sisi, the viceroy of china, king rama v, prince napoleon and many more. today, this royal coster experience tour is within your reach. visit the four monumental 17th century villa’s and see how they create beauty that lasts for centuries..

Royal Coster Diamonds is located in the heart of Amsterdam, opposite the Van Gogh Museum on Museum square. Here you can join a private guided tour and listen to your guide explaining the history of these precious stones. Learn more on why Amsterdam is named the ‘City of Diamonds’. Royal stories can be found when diving into this rich legacy. Then, have the unique opportunity to see the diamond polishers and goldsmiths upclose, whilst your guide explains how diamonds are formed and polished. You can take a picture of yourself behind a real diamond polishing table, learn how to analyze a diamond and hear why some diamonds sparkle more than others.

At the end of your tour, you receive a nice goody bag that you can use to value your or your family’s diamonds and diamond jewelry.

Note: The Royal Coster Experience Tour starts every 30 minutes, the last tour is at 4.30pm. The tour is offered in various languages such as, English, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, French, Mandarin, Japanese, Thai and Russian.

• Visit the oldest diamond polishing factory in Europe
• Step into the footsteps of famous visitors such as Empress Sisi and Prince Napoleon
• Learn more about how Amsterdam has become the 'City of Diamonds'
• Take a picture of yourself behind the diamond polishing table
• Learn how to analyze a diamond like diamond experts
• 1-hour guided Royal Experience tour in English (other languages based on availability)
• Picture opportunity behind a real diamond polishing table

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There were diamonds...

The Diamond Museum is a must for everyone interested in diamonds and jewellery. Let yourself be enchanted by glittering gemstones and experience 400 years of diamond history in the only diamond museum in Europe.

You will be taken on a journey that began hundreds of kilometres below the surface of the earth and ends in the ring on your finger. Admire our wonderful collection of unique objects and crowns and learn about the magical world of diamonds.

Diamond Museum Amsterdam

Learn about diamonds

Discover the characteristics such as the 4 C’s and become a diamond expert.

International crown collection

A permanent collection about the royal crowns from all over the world.

Diamond ape skull

The sparkling gorilla skull that is set with over 17,000 brilliant diamonds

Monumental building

Located at the Museum Square in a 19 th century monumental building.

City of Diamonds

Discover how diamond factories such as Royal Coster Diamonds contributed to the development of the diamond industry in Amsterdam and how the city became the ‘City of Diamonds’.

Diamonds in jewellery

Only the finest diamonds end up in jewellery. The designs are not only subject to the fashion through the centuries, but also the differences in taste per country or culture lead to variations in design.

Special diamond objects

The collection of diamond artefacts is to call impressive at least. Discover them all, such as the diamond katana, diamond tennis racket and the diamond skull.

The crown collection

Throughout history Royals all over the world have used crowns as a symbol of status. In the Diamond Museum Amsterdam, you can admire many replicas of crowns from the present and the past.

Famous diamonds

Diamonds appeal to the imagination even more if they are exceptionally large, particularly beautiful in colour and finely cut, or if they were owned by famous people. In the Diamond Museum Amsterdam you can admire replicas of the world’s most famous diamonds.

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Amsterdam diamonds

Amsterdam has a long heritage of diamond trade and industry – the city has been a major diamond centre since Sephardic Jews introduced the diamond cutting industry in the later 16th century. Nowadays there are about a dozen diamond factories in the city, several of them offering guided tours. The tours are free and are usually conducted 9am to 5pm every day. Diamonds aren't necessarily cheaper in Amsterdam, but prices are fairly competitive. Additionally you will an opportunity to see how they cut and polished, and you will receive an extensive description of the purchase so you will be able to know exactly what you are buying.

Amsterdam diamond tours

The following renowned diamond firms offer to the public diamond-cutting and polishing tours, as well as sales of the finished diamonds:

Coster Diamonds

Hundreds of thousands visitors come to see Coster Diamonds craftsmen at work every year. Free tours are guided and available in more than 25 languages, the process of diamond cutting and polishing is explained in detail. After the tour, visitors have the opportunity to browse around the spacious showrooms. Address: Paulus Potterstraat 2-4 Phone: +31 20 305 55 55 Open daily from 9 am to 5 pm including weekends www.costerdiamonds.com

Gassan Diamonds

A tour at Gassan Diamonds takes around thirty minutes and is free. Address: Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 173-175 Phone. +31 20 622 53 33 Open daily from 9 am to 5 pm including weekends www.gassandiamonds.com

Amstel Diamonds

One of the oldest existingfactories has an exhibit of the history of diamond polishing. Located in an old Amsterdam townhouse Amstel Diamonds have also unique pieces on sale. Free entry. Address: Amstel 206 – 208 Phone: +31 20 623 14 79 Open daily from 9 am to 5 pm, Sunday 10 am - 5 pm www.amsteldiamonds.nl

Diamond Museum in Amsterdam

A museum on the two floors of a stately villa opposite to the van Gogh Museum and next to the Coster Diamonds. Interesting multimedia presentations about the diamond history and human fascination with diamonds. Many replica’s of the coronation gems including the Dutch and British Royal crowns. Entry fee. Address: Paulus Potterstraat 8 Phone: +31 20 30 55 300 Open daily from 9 am to 5 pm including weekends. www.diamantmuseumamsterdam.nl

Jewelry shopping in Amsterdam

Amsterdam has many unique jewelry shops. Along with the big shops of international reputation like Cartier, you will find several smaller shops offering original gems made local craftsmen.

The Amsterdam Diamond Stock Exchange

De Amsterdamse Diamantbeurs (est. 1870, member of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses) trades in diamonds on the professional market. Address: Hogehilweg 14 Phone: +31 20 696 22 51 www.diamantbeurs.org

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The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

Rolling Stones Kick-Start ‘Hackney Diamonds’ Tour With Thrilling Houston Concert

By Andy Greene

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Over the past couple of decades, the Rolling Stones have looked for any reason to hit the road besides the release of a new album of original songs. They’ve launched tours celebrating their 50th anniversary, reissues of select archival records, the 2016 covers LP Blue & Lonesome , and their 60th anniversary. Some years they headed out on the stadium circuit for no particular reason whatsoever, knowing a Stones tour is a major event in and of itself.

The first step was Houston’s NRG Stadium on Sunday night. After a strong opening set by Gary Clark Jr. that centered around his new LP, JPEG Raw , the band took the stage to the familiar opening notes of “Start Me Up.” This is the first time Mick Jagger has faced a stadium crowd since his 80th birthday last year, but his voice and body seem like they stopped aging sometime around Steel Wheels . It’s almost impossible to fully believe until you see it in person. (“People say Joe Biden is too old to be president,” an elderly woman behind me said early in the night. “They need to look at Mick!”)

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He wasn’t kidding. The 1965 Aftermath track wasn’t played live once until their 2022 European tour, and this was the first time it crossed the Atlantic. But it’s not something you hear much on classic rock radio, and the audience reaction was pretty muted at first. “I don’t think you really knew it,” Jagger said at the end. “But you got to know it as it went along.”

The Hackney Diamonds portion of the evening began at this point with leadoff single “Angry,” which popped onstage much like it did during their surprise album release show at the New York club Racket last year. “Beast of Burden” won the fan vote for the night, and it provided veteran backup Stones singer Bernard Fowler with a much-deserved spotlight moment. “You’ve got one more vote in November,” Jagger said. “Don’t forget to vote then too. What to play now? Something old … something new.”

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At the midway point of every Rolling Stones concert in recent memory, Jagger introduces the band one by one before heading offstage so Keith Richards can sing a couple of songs. For some reason, perhaps to squeeze more new songs into the set without cutting any of the standards, Richards was limited to just a single tune. He made it count by singing 1981’s “Little T & A” for the first time since 2016, though it was disappointing he didn’t get a chance to break out “Tell Me Straight” from Hackney Diamonds . It feels inevitable that’ll happen before this tour ends.

Jagger returned for “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Gimme Shelter,” which gave new background singer Chanel Haynes a chance to emerge from the wings and show off her stunning pipes. She first entered Stones World in 2022 when Sasha Allen, their previous background singer, couldn’t make a Milan show. Haynes was playing the lead role in the West End musical Tina at the time, and she parachuted in at the last second to save the show. This frustrated the producers of Tina , who fired her for handing the show off to her understudy that night when she wasn’t ill, but it impressed the Stones enough to hire her for this tour.

The main set wrapped up with “Honky Tonk Women,” “Miss You,” “Paint It Black,” and “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.” These are songs they’ve done hundreds and hundreds of times for good reason. The hardcores may yearn for deeper cuts like “Memory Motel” or “Moonlight Mile,” but Jagger knows they’d cause many people to sit down and start scrolling through Instagram. And when you have a song like “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” in your repertoire, you simply have to play it every time you do a gig.

“Sweet Sounds of Heaven,” one of the finest songs on Hackney Diamonds , kicked off the brief encore set. If it wasn’t challenging enough to channel Merry Clayton a few songs back, Haynes had to now deliver Lady Gaga’s soaring vocal parts from the original recording. Unsurprisingly, she crushed it. For a moment, it really felt like witnessing a scene from some alternate-universe version of A Star Is Born.

The night closed out with a joyous “Satisfaction,” meaning they played just three songs from Hackney Diamonds. That’s typical for a tour in support of a latter-day Rolling Stones album, but this one really deserved more. They dropped “Midnight Rambler,” one of the Richards songs, and the acoustic set to make room for the three new ones in the show, but it be worth further restructuring to squeeze in “Whole Wide World,” “Bite My Head Off,” and “Tell Me Straight.” These are stellar songs that deserve a spot in the set, even if it means tossing aside “Paint It Black” or “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” sometimes.

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Watch The Rolling Stones kick off 2024 ‘Hackney Diamonds’ tour with hit-packed set in Houston

The rock legends performed fan favourite hits along with tracks from new album 'Hackney Diamonds'

The Rolling Stones kicked off their 2024 ‘Hackney Diamonds’ tour in Houston last night (April 28) – check out the full setlist, footage and pictures below.

• READ MORE:  Ronnie Wood talks Rolling Stones’ ‘Hackney Diamonds’: “These songs are explosive”

The legendary rockers – Mick Jagger ,  Keith Richards  and  Ronnie Wood – opened the first night of their 2024 North American tour at NRG Stadium with hits like ‘Start Me Up’, ‘Paint It Black’ and ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’.

There was a live debut for ‘ Hackney Diamonds ’ song ‘Mess It Up’, along with a performance of ‘Little T&A’ for the first time since 2016.

Early in the set, the band also performed fan-favourite deep cut ‘Out of Time’ live for the first time in the US.

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“Thank you Houston! You were an amazing audience for opening night!” shared the band on Instagram this morning (April 29).

The concert kicked off a 16-date North American tour in support of their latest album, which will continue on to cities like Las Vegas, Orlando, Chicago Los Angeles and more throughout May, June and July.

The Rolling Stones’ ‘Hackney Diamonds’ tour opening night setlist was:

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‘Start Me Up’ ‘Get Off of My Cloud’ ‘Rocks Off’ ‘Out of Time’ ‘Angry’ ‘Beast of Burden’ ‘Mess It Up’ ‘Tumbling Dice’ ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ ‘Little T&A’ ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ ‘Gimme Shelter’ ‘Honky Tonk Women’ ‘Miss You’ ‘Paint It Black’ ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’ ‘Sweet Sounds of Heaven’ ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’

Check out fan-shot footage and photos from the set below.

Mick Jagger says he thinks they’ve never played this song in the US #rollingstones #hackneydiamondstour pic.twitter.com/29ppIPvf4r — Joey Guerra 🪩 (@joeyguerra) April 29, 2024

The Rolling Stones in Houston pic.twitter.com/al0Dmhqw41 — Florida Pete 🇺🇸 (@pbyrond) April 29, 2024

The Rolling Stones Paint It Black from Houston pic.twitter.com/3ZxTQv73W7 — Florida Pete 🇺🇸 (@pbyrond) April 29, 2024

Gary Clark Jr. opened for The Rolling Stones in Houston last night, with a host of support acts due to open the remaining nights of the tour including The Pretty Reckless , Joe Bonamassa ,  The Linda Lindas and more.

Check out the full dates for the US ‘Hackney Diamonds’ tour and purchase any last minute tickets here .

Reviewing ‘Hackney Diamonds’ in October – their first studio album of new material since 2005’s ‘ A Bigger Bang ’ – NME  described the record as an “absolute barnstormer”.

The four-star write-up added: “But if ‘Hackney Diamonds’ does round off the most successful career in rock music ever, it wouldn’t be a bad place to leave it. A natural end, but definitely not a normal one.”

Ronnie Woods recently spoke to NME about the “explosive” new songs and how they would translate live. “I have complete faith. We could play the whole album, you know what I mean? But [Mick and Keith] will go, ‘Oh no Ron, that’s so ambitious’. We’re not gonna forget the back catalogue,” he shared.

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The Rolling Stones Kick Off 'Hackney Diamonds' Tour in Houston — See the Photos!

The iconic rock band will tour the U.S. through July

The Rolling Stones got the crowd rocking on opening night of their Hackney Diamonds tour!

On Sunday, April 28, the rock icons took the stage in Houston at the sold-out NRG Stadium where they delivered a fiery performance.

“It’s great to be back in the Lone Star State,” bandleader Mick Jagger told the crowd, per the Associated Press .

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Throughout their 18-song set, The Stones delivered a gamut of career-spanning hits with bandleader Jagger's energy and charisma captivating the crowd and guitarist Keith Richards ' riffs exploding throughout the stadium.

According to AP and a press release, the band kicked off their two-hour set with "Start Me Up," before they launched into favorites like "Gimme Shelter," "Paint It Black," as well as deep cuts like “Out of Time” and music from their latest album Hackney Diamonds, including “Angry,” “Mess It Up” and “Sweet Sounds of Heaven.”

The Stones closed out the show with their spirited classic “Satisfaction.”

The "Miss You" rockers will play a string of dates including Las Vegas, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago, and more, through Wednesday, July 17.

Before releasing their latest album  Hackney Diamonds  in October, the band held an intimate concert at club Racket in New York City, where Jagger, 80, Richards, 80, and guitarist  Ronnie Wood  performed songs including such as “Shattered,” “Angry,” “Whole Wide World” and "Jumpin' Jack Flash."

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The performance also included the live debut of  Hackney Diamonds  track "Sweet Sounds of Heaven" with a surprise appearance from  Lady Gaga , who provides guest vocals on the song.

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Related: Mick Jagger Wanted 'Deadline' Pressure to Complete New Album 'Hackney Diamonds': 'You're Not Doing Take 117'

Hackney Diamonds marks The Rolling Stones' first album since 2005’s  A Bigger Bang  and their first release without drummer Charlie Watts, who  died in August 2021  at the age of 80.

The 12-track record features several collaborations, including “Sweet Sounds of Heaven,” which sees  Stevie Wonder  joining the band, “Bit My Head Off,” which features Paul McCartney  assisting them on bass and “Get Close” and “Live By the Sword," with Elton John  playing the keys. Gaga, 38, was also featured on "Sweet Sounds of Heaven."

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• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
• 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

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Komsomolskaya

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• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

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Rolling Stones kick off 48th tour with ‘Hackney Diamonds’ cuts and classics in Houston

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The Rolling Stones opened their Stones Tour ’24 Hackney Diamonds on Sunday to a sold-out crowd of more than 70,000 fans at NRG Stadium in Houston.

The Stones played just three new tracks from the album, choosing to focus instead on classic hits including “Start Me Up,” “Gimme Shelter,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and “Satisfaction,” according to a press release. The decision to focus on older material was not unsurprising for a group with more than six decades of songs to choose from.

It was the rockers’ first performance of material from their 2023 effort “Hackney Diamonds” since the album’s surprise release at the 600-seat club Racket in New York last October. (Fans and celebrities packed that tiny venue expecting merely a Stones show and instead were treated to a breadth of new songs — and a Lady Gaga cameo.)

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As the tour rolls on, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and company plan to make stadium stops in Glendale, Ariz.; Las Vegas; Seattle; East Rutherford, N.J.; Foxboro, Mass.; Orlando; Atlanta; Philadelphia; Cleveland; Denver; Chicago; Vancouver; Inglewood; and Santa Clara.

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“Hackney Diamonds” is the rockers’ first studio album of original material in nearly two decades, following 2005’s “A Bigger Bang.” It’s also the Stones’ first LP since the death of founding drummer Charlie Watts in 2021. It’s the first time the band has been on the road since its 60th anniversary tour in 2022, and the tour will also feature a stop at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on May 2.

“Charlie was one of the funniest guys I’ve ever known,” Richards told Times music critic Mikael Wood in 2021, “and the most unlikely man to be famous. He hated that side of the job and used to savagely take the piss out of it.”

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When “Hackney Diamonds” game out, Wood wrote in his album review, “The songs blend the same ingredients the Stones have been using since the beginning — blues, rock, soul, country, gospel — but they’re tighter and punchier than on any of the band’s previous late-era LPs.”

Meanwhile, according to Rolling Stone , back at the Houston concert one fan said, “People say Joe Biden is too old to be president. They need to look at Mick!”

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No one rocks like The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger, band thrill on Hackney Diamonds Tour

HOUSTON − It’s not only stunning, but it's somewhat miraculous that more than 60 years after their first tour, the Rolling Stones are still filling stadiums.

It’s even more head-spinning to realize that along with their treasured hits, the Rolling Stones are enhancing their set list with a trio of songs from last year’s well-received “Hackney Diamonds” – their first album of original material in 18 years and the impetus for this 16-city tour.

We’d call it a victory lap, but frontman Mick Jagger is better suited for marathons.

At the kickoff Sunday at NRG Stadium in Houston, the core triumvirate of Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood – along with their supporting cast of exceptional musicians and singers – hit the massive stage to the sounds of Richards’ slashing out the riff of, fittingly, “Start Me Up.”

Jagger, the nimble CEO of Stones Inc., peacocked in a silver shimmering jacket, his elastic legs a mere pedestal for his rotating torso.

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Richards, still owning his disheveled pirate look with a knit cap and multicolored scarf dangling from his hip, and Wood, grinning continuously and occasionally scampering down the lengthy catwalk, retained their roles as faithful consiglieres.

There isn’t a patch of smooth facial skin among them (Jagger and Richards are 80 and Wood is 76). But with the energy to plow through an 18-song, two-hour set – yes, shorter than previous Stones shows, but still fulfilling – no one is looking to crown them pageant winners.

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While the band needed a couple of songs to fully find their groove – the striding cadence of a reworked “Get Off Of My Cloud” and a ramshackle “Rocks Off” felt curious rather than robust – Jagger compensated with his riveting presence and still-supple vocals.

Along with the “Hackney Diamonds” songs plucked for their major live debuts (the band played a few of the new tracks at an intimate New York club gig in October ), including the feisty “ Angry ” and encore of gospelized “ Sweet Sounds of Heaven ,” the 1966 tune “ Out of Time ” also received its U.S. debut. The band revived it last year during some performances for the overseas Sixty tour.

“I don’t think you really knew it, but you got to know it,” Jagger said with a smile after leading the nearly full stadium through the arm-waving chorus.

As typical for a Rolling Stones production, the stage ran the width of the stadium, blanketed with screens beaming images of the band with magnificent clarity. Close-ups of drummer Steve Jordan, who assumed rhythm duties after the death of original drummer Charlie Watts in 2021, joyfully thundering through the gem “ Paint It, Black ” and birthday boy Chuck Leavell ripping out a fleet-fingered solo on his Yamaha keyboard on “Honky Tonk Women” offered fans a peek at the magic happening a few feet behind Jagger and Co.

During the always-visceral “ Sympathy for the Devil ,” as serpents and fire crawled across the screens, Jagger prowled through the sinister groove, augmented by percussion provided by background vocalist Bernard Fowler and chunky bass lines from Darryl Jones.

Keyboardist Matt Clifford added French horn to “ You Can’t Always Get What You Want ” as Jagger, playing an acoustic guitar, strolled through the message of acquiescence that escalated into a gospel throwdown.

The horn duo of Karl Denson and Tim Ries coated many familiar anthems – “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and “Miss You” among them – with their rich brass sounds. But, as fans have realized over the decades, the ominous “Gimme Shelter” remains a centerpiece of any Rolling Stones concert, and Jagger has a new onstage playmate in powerhouse background vocalist Chanel Haynes.

The woman who starred as Tina Turner in the West End musical of Turner’s life and officially became part of the band last year steamrolled through “Gimme Shelter” with a voice blaring attitude and vigor. As she and Jagger strolled the catwalk, sharing vocals and chemistry, Jagger wisely backed off a couple of times, allowing Haynes to unleash her theatrical verve.

But this is still Jagger’s circus, and whether he’s bobbing like a jittery prizefighter or wiggling his shoulders like the world’s most slender Chippendales dancer, he is an octogenarian who captivates.

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The band has enlisted various openers throughout the tour. In Houston, blues-rock guitar ace – and Texas native – Gary Clark Jr. landed the opening-night slot and for 45 minutes enchanted the mostly full stadium.

With a large band – five musicians, three background vocalists – behind him, Clark was the epitome of cool in dark shades and a bandanna as he took the stage with “Maktub” from his recently released fourth album, “JPEG Raw.”

Clark is a big name for an opener (then again, it is the Rolling Stones) and he used his time well with massive licks on the crunch rockers “Bright Lights” and “This is Who We Are,” with singer Naala joining him.

The soul-inflected “Feed the Babies” seared as a set highlight as the singer/guitarist displayed sizzling playing and a breezy vibe for the crowd.  

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