How COVID and Charlie Watts' Ghost Shaped the Stones' 2022 'Sixty' Tour

I was digging into the Rolling Stones’ 2022 “Sixty” tour, and the real story isn’t just the 60-year milestone—it’s how the band almost didn’t make it to the stage. First, Charlie Watts died in August 2021, so this was the first tour without him. They brought in Steve Jordan, which was a huge emotional and musical shift. Then COVID hit the tour hard: Keith Richards tested positive in June