THEY may have a combined age of 249 but life shows no signs of getting dull for the Rolling Stones.

Since this mammoth tour started, the band have barely been out of the headlines.

They've caused a riot in Buenos Aires and had their live show censored in China, while guitarist Ronnie Wood ended up back in rehab and, most famously of all, Keith Richards narrowly avoided death when he fell out of a coconut tree and had to undergo brain surgery.

Really, you couldn't make it up.

Fortunately for the devoted fans who packed out this show at Twickenham, the Stones are still just as entertaining on stage as off.

With an impressive light show marking their entrance, the band were greeted by an almighty roar from the crowd as they kicked off the show with a pounding Jumpin' Jack Flash.

The hits kept on coming too, with versions of Satisfaction, Brown Sugar, Let's Spend The Night Together and Sympathy For The Devil thrilling the audience.

The night really belonged to front man Mick Jagger, though.

In impossibly tight jeans, he strutted up and down the stage, arching his back theatrically and encouraging the crowd to clap along to almost every song.

His voice was on top form, too, having recovered from a recent bout of laryngitis that forced some shows to be cancelled.

With their leather jackets and even more leathered faces, the idea of the Stones continuing to perform more than 40 years into their career might seem ridiculous.

But at this concert, though, they showed exactly why they remain rock's ultimate icons - still full of life, cocksure bravado and more swaggering choruses of which most bands could only ever dream.

THE SET LIST

Jumpin' Jack

Flash

It's Only Rock 'n'

Roll

She's So Cold

Let's Spend The

Night Together

Live With Me

Rain Fall Down

You Can't Always

Get What You

Want

Bitch

Tumbling Dice

Slipping Away

Before They

Make

Me Run

Miss You

Rough Justice

Start Me Up

Honky Tonk

Women

Sympathy For

The Devil

Paint It Black

Brown Sugar

(I Can't Get No)

Satisfaction