During the Stones' concert Thursday night at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, Jagger took a few moments between songs to deliver a comedic list of celebrities supposedly in attendance at the concert.
"There’s so many celebrities here tonight, of course, you know, naturally," Jagger said stalking the stage. "Megan Fox is here. She’s lovely. Leonardo DiCaprio. Lady Gaga."
Then he mentioned Kirk Douglas, who passed away in February 2020 and said he must have "misread that one." Jagger then said, "Paul McCartney is here. He’s going to join us in a blues cover later on."
McCartney resurrected the longtime debate about the hierarchy of the rival British bands in a recent interview in The New Yorker. “I’m not sure I should say it, but they’re a blues cover band, that’s sort of what the Stones are,” McCartney told editor David Remnick. “I think our net was cast a bit wider than theirs.”
This likely won't be the last time the two bands trade barbs. More than 40 years ago, John Lennon said the Stones, compared to the Beatles, "are not in the same class, music-wise or power-wise, never were," during a 1970 Rolling Stone interview.
