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Jagger's doctors advised him not to attend the remaining 17 concerts of the tour, but expected him to recover "completely," according to a group statement. Jagger, 75, is excused from fans.
"I really hate to let you down like that," he said in a tweet. "I am devastated by the postponement of the tour, but I will work very hard to get back on stage as soon as I can."
The group, which debuted more than five decades ago, made the first two stages of its No Filter tour in Europe in the fall of 2017 and the spring of 2018. The final leg of the tour was cross the group through US cities Miami, Houston, Denver and Chicago, as well as a place north of Toronto. The Stones were to play at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in May.
The group's statement suggests that the concerts would be reprogrammed and recommends fans to keep their tickets.
Jagger is not the first music icon of the 1960s to show signs of slowing down.
In February, rock guitarist Peter Frampton announced that he was suffering from a degenerative muscular disease that could slow his fingers and his ability to move. he said that he would organize a farewell tour. And in 2018, Paul Simon and Joan Baez, two major characters of the popular Renaissance of the 60s, gave farewell concerts.
John Covach, a professor of music at the University of Rochester who taught a clbad on the group, said the Stones remain a rock institution, so they could do as many tours as they wanted in the past. years, arenas. But these demanding and exhausting international tours can have detrimental consequences.
"Who can go around the country at 70 or 75 years?", He said Saturday.
He said that for pbadionate fans of the Stones or other iconic bands of the '60s, many of whom are baby boomers, news of farewell tours and rock stars dying from natural causes may remind them of their own mortality.
"This forces many fans to accept the fact that this music of their youth, those who produced it, are going on stage," he said.
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