Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 4, 1994                   TAG: 9405040043
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PEOPLE

"This is not the last tour," Mick Jagger said at a news conference on a Hudson River pier in New York City. "I hate that sympathy thing that says, `If you don't come, you're never going to see them again.' "

The Stones will start rolling in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 1 - a few weeks after the release of their newest album, "Voodoo Lounge." Their second show will be in Raleigh, N.C.

Bassist Darryl Jones, who did not attend the news conference, will replace Bill Wyman on the tour, but is not yet a permanent member of the group.

American ticket prices will be $50, $39.50 and $25.

Michael Bolton, who stands to lose millions of bucks on a jury's decision that he ripped off a 1966 Isley Brothers song on his hit album "Time, Love and Tenderness," took his fight to a news conference Monday, accusing the jury of racism and vowing an appeal.

Ronald Isley, who is black, countered with his own media event, calling Bolton's accusation "absurd," adding that his "making a racial issue out of this really hurts because it wasn't that way." The jury was composed of four blacks and four whites.

Bolton, who is white and said he had never heard of the Isleys' "Love Is a Wonderful Thing," told reporters, "I feel like the tables were slightly turned a little bit here, and I think there was a bit of racial inference during the case that was really upsetting." He called the jury's decision "incomprehensible and . . . tragically wrong."