TICKETS to one of the most hotly anticipated musical gigs in Southampton this year have gone on sale.

But tickets for the Rolling Stones at St Mary's Stadium are expected to sell-out fast.

The legendary 60s rock band will play to a crowd of up to 36,000 fans at the football Stadium on May 29.

The gig will take place 55 years after the 1960s hit makers first visited Southampton.

Stones frontman, Mick Jagger, said: “It’s great that we’ll be playing even more UK venues where we’ve never played before.

“Look out Southampton, we’ll see you this summer.”

The date is one of two events, alongside Coventry’s Ricoh Arena, to be added to the band’s No Filter tour.

The Europe-wide tour began in 2017 and has already included trips to Germany, France and the Netherlands.

But last month, it was announced Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards would extend the tour in 2018 to include gigs at Twickenham, Old Trafford and Scotland’s Murrayfield.

On Monday, the Stones officially added date in Southampton for May 29 – with tickets going on sale from the band’s website this morning

The iconic rock group first wowed crowds in the city on September 29, 1963, when they played Southampton’s Gaumont, now better known as The Mayflower theatre.

The following year they had their first number one, It’s All Over Now, and returned to Southampton on October 4, 1964.

In 2007 the band brought the Isle of Wight Festival to a rip-roaring climax, in front of a crowd of 50,000.