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Keith Richards Wants a Rolling Stones Residency — Here's the 57-Year Thread Behind That Idea
Keith Richards told Uncut the Stones may swap touring for a residency. That one sentence sits on a straight line running from Elvis in 1969 to the Eagles at the Sphere, and Mick Jagger just pushed back.
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Talking to Uncut around the release of Foreign Tongues, the Rolling Stones’ 25th studio album, out July 10, 2026, Keith Richards was asked about the band’s live future. His answer, as reported by Rolling Stone and Billboard citing that interview:
Deep Purple Named Their Farewell Tour Ten Years Ago. They Just Refused to Finish It.
Deep Purple have a new album out, Splat!, released July 3, and an 86-show run across 28 countries and three continents booked behind it. That’s not the schedule of a band winding down, which is funny, because Deep Purple officially started saying goodbye a decade ago.
Asked about the end, bassist Roger Glover didn’t blink. “We’re not gonna have a final tour, a final gig and make a hoopla about it,” he told Paul Cashmere in a video interview with Noise11 (2026).