Satisfaction for Stones fans despite hefty ticket prices

The Rolling Stones pranced, swaggered, and laughed through the first of five concerts, marking their golden jubilee with a performance that critics said put paid to questions over ticket costs.

Virtually every reviewer at the first of two shows in London’s O2 Arena on Sunday night mentioned the controversy over high prices, but almost all of them said it was worth it.

The two-and-a-half hour set by one of the biggest acts in rock and roll history took a crowd of 20,000 on a trip down memory lane, opening with the 1963 hit I Wanna Be Your Man penned by Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney, right up to Doom and Gloom which is only a few weeks old.