The Rolling Stones are set to rock Dublin’s Croke Park this summer in massive outdoor Irish gig...

THE Rolling Stones are set to rock Croke Park this summer, the Irish Sun can reveal.

Mick Jagger and company will strut their stuff at GAA Headquarters in June — further bolstering a summer of Satisfaction for Irish music fans as three of the biggest bands in the world play the famous venue.

The Rolling Stones are set to rock Croke Park this summer

Croker already has two sell-out shows confirmed — with Coldplay headlining on July 8 while tickets for U2’s July 22 gig were snapped up in a matter of minutes.
And the Irish Sun understands the Rolling Stones are now close to signing on the dotted line for a top-of-the-bill appearance in June.
But with Croke Park limited to hosting just three gigs per year, it will be a case of You Can’t Always Get What You Want for U2 fans as the move will end any chance of the hometown heroes announcing a second show at the venue.
A source said: “The Stones haven’t been here since 2007, so they’re going to be a massive draw.” Jagger and Co famously played Slane Castle ten years ago.
And the wrinkly rockers are now poised to follow in the footsteps of Bruce Springsteen, U2 and the Red Hot Chili Peppers as acts who have jammed at Croke Park as well.

Croke Park Stadium will host some Rock legends this summer

The Irish Sun revealed before Christmas how Jagger and the lads were planning a new money-spinning European tour this summer despite a collective age of 289.
They did a circuit of South America last year, also playing Las Vegas and headlining Desert Trip in California.
Oslo, Barcelona, Vienna, Paris and Nijmegen in Holland are also rumoured to be on the agenda alongside the Dublin gig.
Formed in London in 1962, the Stones went on to become one of the biggest and most provocative rock and roll bands of all time.
Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts returned to the studio last year and released their 25th album, Blue & Lonesome, in December.

The band just released a new album Blue & Lonesome

The all-covers blues album, their first release in over a decade, received positive reviews and a number of European summer tour dates have been rumoured — including a show at Stade de France in Paris.
And it seems Irish fans will get their chance to see great-grandfather Jagger in full flow in front of Hill 16 this summer as well.
Jagger, 73, became a dad for the eighth time in December when his current partner Melanie Hamrick, 29, gave birth to their first son — Deveraux — in New York.
With the Stones joining an ever-growing list of big names jetting in, Dublin will be the rock and roll capital of Europe in 2017 as U2, Coldplay, Radiohead, Green Day, Ed Sheeran and Fleet Foxes are among the international super acts taking to the stage.
And Guns N’ Roses will play just down the road in Slane, Co Meath, for the second time.
But U2 fans who had been holding out hope for a possible second Croke Park gig are to be disappointed.

U2 look not to be playing a second gig in Croke Park after the announcement of The Rolling Stones gigs

Bono, The Edge, Larry and Adam will headline the northside stadium on Saturday, July 22, but there will be no other date added.
Croke Park chiefs confirmed yesterday the issue preventing a second gig centres on the moving of equipment from Spain to Ireland in time for a Friday night show.
U2 play the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona on Tuesday, July 18.
A source said: “It’s a logistical issue, the equipment can’t be gotten over from Barcelona in time for a Friday gig.
“They are then playing Paris on the following Tuesday.”

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