As we get ready to see Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones here in Florida, let’s flash back to when the band played a free open-air concert in Hyde Park on this day (July 5) 50 years ago in 1969. It was their first public show in over 2 years to introduce Mick Taylor. Former member Brian Jones died two days earlier so the show was given in memory of him. They did 14 songs, many for the first time publically.

• Passed Out

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  5th July 1969: Hell's Angels, acting as security at the free Rolling Stones concert in Hyde Park, London, lifting a fan to safety after he passed out. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

• Serpentine Swim

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  A teenage girl cooling off in the Serpentine during the Rolling Stones concert in Hyde Park, London, 5th July 1969. (Photo by Reg Burkett/Express/Getty Images)

• Marianne Faithfull

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  5th July 1969: Marianne Faithfull and her young son Nicholas attend a Rolling Stones concert in London's Hyde Park. She is currently divorcing her husband John Dunbar to be with her boyfriend, singer Mick Jagger. (Photo by Ian Showell/Keystone/Getty Images)
• Memorial Concert

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  5th July 1969: About 150,000 pop fans attend a free open-air concert in Hyde Park given by The Rolling Stones in memory of guitarist Brian Jones who died two days earlier. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

• Hell’s Angels

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  5th July 1969: A Hell's Angel acts as a security guard at the free Rolling Stones tribute concert to recently deceased band member Brian Jones in London's Hyde Park. (Photo by Reg Burkett/Express/Getty Images)

• Stones Fans

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  5th July 1969: Music fans in Hyde Park to see the Rolling Stones in concert. (Photo by J. Marmaras/Keystone/Getty Images)
• Stones Fans

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  5th July 1969: A woman in a cropped top and cut-off shorts standing among people gathered in Hyde Park to see the Rolling Stones in concert. (Photo by Reg Burkett/Express/Getty Images)

• Mick Jagger

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  5th July 1969: British rock singer Mick Jagger, performing with The Rolling Stones, at the free open-air concert in Hyde Park given in memory of guitarist Brian Jones who died two days earlier. (Photo by Reg Burkett/Express/Getty Images)

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