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Wednesday 7 August 2019 The Guardian •National^15
▼ Wood, Jagg er and Richards
showing that as long as you look
nimble, there’s no penalty to age
PHOTOGRAPH: TAYLOR HILL/GETTYRolling Stones
MetLife Stadium , New Jersey
★★★★☆Edward HelmoreI
t seems like barely yesterday
it was 2012 and the Rolling
Stones were celebrating their
50th anniversary. That’s how
it is with this band. They’ve
been around so long time has
ceased to be of consequence.
Sure, it would be great to be
transported back to 1969, to
Madison Square Garden and to their
bluesy peak. Or to 1973 and Sticky
Fingers. Or to 1976, when they were
shambling their way through the
de siccated funk of Hot Stuff.
But the newest song they play- not counting their cover of Bob &
Earl’s 1963 classic Harlem Shuffl e - is Start Me Up, released 38 years
ago. It doesn’t matter: like old lions
who can’t run down the antelope
any more, they can still corner them
against the rocks. Among the people
of New Jersey – the kind of audience
whose devotion has kept the Stones
going for decades – they observe
the fi rst rule of stage business: so
long as you look nimble, there’s no
penalty to age.
Keith Richards looks as if he
spends his life laughing, and he
still seems to surprise himself with
his enduring ability to riff his way
through the band’s repertoire. He
laughs as he heads on stage, and
laughs as he heads off , and seems
to be laughing most of the time
in between.
He is charming beyond measure,
almost winking during his song to
Anita Pallenberg – “Hey babe, what’s
in your eyes? I saw them fl ashing
like airplane lights ” – on You’ve Got
the Silver. Though on some solo
numbers he looks like he might not
make it through – Before They Make
Me Run, for instance, or his long,
closing solo on Satisfaction – and the
audience carries him by sheer force
of goodwill.
Mick Jagger, setting aside a recent
heart-valve operation and his latest
foray into fatherhood, may fi nally
be putting aside his role as the
satyr of the late 20th century. His
lasciviousness and grinding are less
overt : he’s no longer running around
out of breath, unable to enunciate.
And he is connecting with the
music as he’s rarely done , singing as
if he cares about the words. Jagger
struts but never scampers, and when
he plays the harmonica, as on theirmagnifi cent opus Midnight Rambler,
he plays like no one else.
While Richards stabs his way
through Sympathy for the Devil and
Gimme Shelter, it’s the youngest
member of the group – Ron Wood,
72 – who carries the show musically.
Given the solo parts on Midnight
Rambler and You Can’t Always Get
What You Want, his playing is more
defi ned tha n it used to be, or at least
he’s taken more responsibility for it.
Whoever is mixing the sound on
this tour should get a medal : the
guitars are kept high in the mix, so
much so that in some sections when
Wood plays his loud, dirty-soundingWoman leaves
men trailing to
win 2,500-mile
cycle race at
fi rst attempt
Helen Pidd
North of England editorA German cancer researcher compet-
ing in her fi rst ultra- distance event has
become the fi rst woman to win one
of the world’s toughest cycling races.
Fiona Kolbinger , 24, from Dresden,
said she was “so surprised to win” the
Transcontinental, which covers 2,
miles (4,000km) from Burgas in Bul-
garia to Brest in France.
She took 10 days, two hours and
48 minutes to complete the chal-
lenge yesterday, which includes about
40,000 metres (131,000ft) of climbing.
Kolbinger was one of 265 riders to
begin the seventh year of the race,
which was started in 2013 by the British
long-distance cyclist Mike Hall, who
was killed in a race in Australia in 2017.
Participants may pass through Aus-
tria, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina ,
Croatia, France, Italy, Kosovo, Ser-
bia, Slovenia and Switzerland.
Riders can choose their own route
from Burgas to Brest but must pass
through four control points. Each
checkpoint has an obligatory specifi c
challenge, from gravel tracks to high-
altitude climbs and steep gradients.
These included climbing the Tim-
melsjoch pass (2,474 metres) in South
Tyrol on the Italian- Austrian border ,
and the Col du Galibier (2,645 metres),
one of the French Alps’ highest roads.
Kolbinger, a medical student at the
paediatric oncology unit at the German
Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg ,
was one of 40 women to start the race.
“ I thought that maybe I could go
for the women’s podium but I never
thought I could win the whole race ,”
she said. “I think I could have gone
harder. I could have slept less.”
Kolbinger’s nearest rival, Ben
Davies, who was still on the road seven
hours after she fi nished.
The clock does not stop after the
riders set off from Burgas on 28 July.
Competitors choose where, when and
if they want to rest. Riders can only
use what they take with them or what
they can fi nd en route at commercial
services, and cannot accept any help.
The weather during the event varied
widely , organisers said. “ They’ve
cycled through temperatures of up
to 37 C [98.6F ] and as low as just four
degrees above freezing.”▲ Fiona Kolbinger, a German medical
student, passing through Brittany on
her way to be the fi rst female winnerMan guilty of murdering fi ve girls
and three adults in arson attack
Nazia Parveen
North of England correspondentA man has been found guilty of mur-
dering eight members of the same
family in an arson attack 17 years ago.
Shahid Mohammed, 37, murdered
three generations of the family,including fi ve young girls, in a house
fi re in Huddersfi eld , in a bitter dispute
over his sister’s relationship.
Mohammed was one of several men
involved in planning the arson attack
but fl ed to Pakistan before the trial in
2003, Leeds crown court was told.
Jurors were told that the blaze,
which caused the deaths of eight in theChisti family, was linked to a grudge
held by the defendant. Prosecutors
said Mohammed reacted angrily when
his sister, Shahida, started a relation-
ship with Saud Pervez. Mohammed
Ateeq-Ur-Rehman (Ateeq) of the Chisti
family, who played an “active part” in
maintaining the couple’s relationship,
was probably the target of the attack,
involving petrol bombs in Birkby on 12
May 2002, the court heard.
Mohammed went missing for 12
years but was arrested in Pakistan
in 2015 and extradited to the UK. In
July 2003 Shakiel Shazad and NazarHussain were convicted of manslaugh-
ter and Shaied Iqbal was convicted of
eight counts of murder over the crime.
Mohammed had denied eight counts
of murder and one of conspiracy to
commit arson with intent to endan-
ger life. He will be sentenced today.
Those who died were Nafeesa Aziz,
35, and her daughters Tayyaba , three,
Rabiah , 10, Ateeqa Nawaz, fi ve, Aneesa
Nawaz, two, and Najeebah Nawaz, six
months. Ateeq also died in the fi re and
their mother, Zaib-un-Nisa, 54, died in
hospital from head injuries after jump-
ing from the house to escape.Music
review
Stones give
ever more
satisfaction
Gibson Firebird they seem to jolt the
stadium itself.
The only worry here is Charlie
Watts. He seem s barely present
at the start of the show, but after
the requisite acoustic centre-stage
section he gets his swing together.
The Stones no longer seem
imprisoned by their legend – indeed,
the sex and drugs are now almost the
least interesting thing about them.
They’re playing better than they
have done in years and seem grateful
to be out, almost surprised at their
good fortune. At last, t he band are
growing gracefully into the grandeur
of their substantial achievement.РЕЛИЗ ПОДГОТОВИЛА ГРУППА "What's News" VK.COM/WSNWS