Time is still on Mick’s side as Stones vocalist turns 60

THE term “Sixties rock star” took on a new meaning yesterday as Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger prepared to perform before a crowd of more than 60,000 in the Czech capital Prague, a day after celebrating his 60th birthday in a downtown nightclub.

On the latest leg of the Forty Licks world tour, the veteran British group was to take the stage in a purpose-built open-air arena in Letna park, the scene in November 1989 of some of the biggest demonstrations that led to the fall of communism.

It was to be the Stones' fourth concert in Prague they first came in 1990 when they befriended dissident-turned-president Vaclav Havel but among the spectators this year were to be many of the hundreds of thousands of tourists who now transform the city every summer.