The Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels Live

December 1989 show in Atlantic City featured cameos from Eric Clapton, Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin and John Lee Hooker

8.2

5 votes

1989

2h 45m

Music

Overview

Having not hit the road for most of the 80s, The Steel Wheels Tour was an astounding return for the Rolling Stones, not least as it was the longest tour they had by that point undertaken. It was also to be their last with Bill Wyman. Steel Wheels Live was recorded towards the end of the band’s 60-date run through the stadiums of North America, in the second half of 1989. The stage and lighting design of The Steel Wheels Tour set the pace for superstar tours as we know them today. Special guest appearances from Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, Eric Clapton and John Lee Hooker on this Atlantic City date make this an even more extraordinary document of the band’s return to touring.

Directed by Louis J. Horvitz