The Rolling Stones announce fall concert

The Rolling Stones announced early this week, in a press conference held in New York, a new global concert, set to open on august 21 in Boston and most major U.S. and Canadian cities in the fall.

After the U.S. performances, which will finish Dec.1 in Houston, the tour travels in 2006 to Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, Europe and maybe China- a place the band has been trying to play for years.

Mick Jagger declared the band is very anxious about this concert and despite the years, they did not age a day in their hearts. When reporters played down suggestions that the global swing would be the group's last one, Mike answered laughing, "we don't announce it as our last tour. We never think about it. We take each tour as it comes".

In the concert, Rolling Stones will play well-known classics, along with fresh tunes from its new album, which has yet to be completed or even named. "We're 85 percent done with the album". "We tried to make it very wide-ranging and we tried to make it very hard-hitting, but it's got its sensitive moments," Jagger said.

After the press conference, the group held a mini - concert for reporters and hundred of onlookers, as fans peered out from rooftops and terraces around New York's Lincoln Center. The show drew celebrities like supermodel Linda Evangelista and fashion guru Tommy Hilfiger, too.