Fan sues Stones for $51 million

[Dr. Jack]

By Jeanne King Tue Oct 31

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Rolling Stones on Tuesday canceled an upcoming concert in Hawaii and rescheduled three other performances, while a fan sued the band for $51 million for pulling out of a New Jersey show last week.

Mick Jagger, 63, has been hit with a sore throat, forcing the last-minute postponement of Friday's Atlantic City show, a rare theater show in New York that was delayed by a day until Wednesday and now stadium gigs in Oakland, Calif., Vancouver, Canada, and Los Angeles.

Additionally, a November 22 date scheduled for Honolulu's Aloha Stadium -- their first in Hawaii since 1998 -- has been canceled. The band's spokeswoman said she did not know why it was scrapped, but the Stones have been dogged by poor ticket sales in some cities. It also would have been costly for the band to fly in its huge stage and a large retinue.

Meanwhile, a fan from Brooklyn on Tuesday sued the Stones for $51 million for canceling their October 27 concert in Atlantic City, New Jersey, four hours before it was scheduled to start.

Rosalie Druyan filed a class-action lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday accusing Jagger and the Stones of fraud and in acting in bad faith because of the cancellation, which she said cost her and thousands of fans money on non-refundable hotel bookings.

The suit charges that Jagger sought medical attention before the concert and knew he would not perform but did not disclose that in time for ticket-holders to cancel travel reservations.

Druyan bought a pair of tickets on the Internet for $575 and said she was not notified about the cancellation until it was too late to cancel her $300 hotel reservations at the Trump Taj Mahal. A spokeswoman was not immediately available to comment on the suit.

The rock Legends have announced that the postponed Atlantic City concert has been re-scheduled for November 17.

The second North American leg of their "Bigger Bang" world tour will now end on November 25 in Vancouver, which originally was set to host the Stones on Friday. Additionally, Sunday's show in Oakland, Calif., has been postponed by a day to November 6, and the November 18 show in Los Angeles will take place on November 22.

On Monday, the Stones announced that a Halloween show scheduled for Tuesday at New York's Beacon Theater had been delayed to November 1 on the advice of Jagger's doctor. The rescheduled show, which is being taped for a DVD by director
Martin Scorsese, will still go ahead, the spokeswoman said.

On Sunday, the Stones played for former U.S. President
Bill Clinton's 60th birthday celebration at the Beacon, where millions of dollars were raised for the Clinton Foundation's fight against
AIDS, poverty and the environment.

In August, two Stones shows in Spain were canceled due to Jagger's laryngitis. The European tour had already been delayed by several weeks so that guitarist
Keith Richards could recover from a head injury.

[ZIGGYSTARDUST]

Its hell to get old but it beats the alternative..

[WildKat]

I am suprised that they have performed as many as they have on this tour. They played in from of 40,000 in Louisville a couple months ago.Recently ol boy fell out of the tree, another one is fighting alcoholism and the other member had throat cancer.......Good classic rock, but I always thought that they were kinda weird....maybe it was the way they looked and danced around!