{"id":235457,"date":"2026-04-17T10:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235457\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:31:08","slug":"flashback-friday-to-rolling-stones-rockin-orlando-in-1981-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235457\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday to Rolling Stones rockin\u2019 Orlando in 1981 \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the first rousing strains of \u201cUnder My Thumb,\u201d the Rolling Stones held 60,000 fans firmly in their grip at Orlando\u2019s Tangerine Bowl on Oct. 24, 1981. They didn\u2019t let go until the concert ended with \u201cSatisfaction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Stones took the stage at the T-Bowl (now known as Camping World Stadium) shortly after 3 p.m. on an 80-degree Saturday afternoon, moving with athletic precision through 26 songs during a 2-hour, 20-minute show climaxed by a $4,000 fireworks display that sent tiny American flags and British union jacks parachuting down over the audience.<\/p>\n<p>A 38-year-old Mick Jagger was \u201cstill singing like the devil,\u201d the Sentinel reported.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Rolling Stones performs in the Tangerine Bowl October 24, 1981. The Rolling Stones' American Tour 1981 was a concert tour of stadiums in the United States to promote the album Tattoo You. ( Red Huber\/Orlando Sentinel)\" width=\"2194\" height=\"945\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tos-l-RollingStones1981TangerineBowl4_122135613.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"15027256\" \/>The Rolling Stones perform at the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando on October 24, 1981 as part of a concert tour to promote their &#8220;Tattoo You&#8221; album. (Orlando Sentinel file)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDressed in white football pants, a variety of shirts, football jerseys and a cape, he pranced and pleaded his way through paleolithic Stones numbers like \u2018Honky Tonk Woman,\u2019 \u2018Let\u2019s Spend the Night Together\u2019 and \u2018Time Is On My Side.\u2019 Jagger blew kisses, baptized the crowd with buckets of water and cakewalked his way down two 80- foot ramps leading to the east and west wings of the stadium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sentinel also reported back then about a very eager Stones fan and his ingenious plan to get into the concert early.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first fan to enter the Tangerine Bowl for today\u2019s Rolling Stones concert passed through the gates in a portable toilet,\u201d the newspaper report said. \u201cThe enterprising teen-ager spent Friday morning watching a forklift carrying the portable toilets into the stadium. By Friday afternoon, he had made the decision to become a stowaway. He locked himself in one of the portables, was transported the into T- Bowl, and remained there for more than two hours before being discovered and ejected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the first rousing strains of \u201cUnder My Thumb,\u201d the Rolling Stones held 60,000 fans firmly in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[53370,114,266,115,139,141,140,53371,109],"class_list":["post-235457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-flashbacks","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-sentinel-150","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}