Stones cancel concert after Jagger develops laryngitis

The Rolling Stones have announced yet another cancellation for the current leg oftheir world tour.

The aging British rockers announced ontheir website Monday the cancellation of Monday night'sconcert in the northern Spanish city of Valladolid, after Mick Jagger developed laryngitis this past weekend.

"I am very sorry to be cancelling this show," Jagger said in the statement. "I always love playing in Spain, but unfortunately I have no other choice and I apologize to everyone who bought tickets for tonight."

The statement said that Jagger has been ordered by his doctorto rest his voice.

Carmen Carnero, a spokeswoman for the concert promoters, said the Stones had sold 37,000 tickets for the concert at the city's Zorilla soccer stadium. The concert will likely not be rescheduled, she added.

The European leg of the band's A Bigger Bang tour was plagued by problems even before its start, originally scheduled for May 27.

In late April, while the band was on break from the world tour after finishing a concert date in New Zealand, guitarist Keith Richards fell from a tree while vacationing in Fiji.

He was released after a few days in hospital, but returned in early May for surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. He took the better part of two months to recuperate, and the Stones were forced to postpone the tour and cancel a number of dates.

During this time, Stones guitarist Ron Wood checked in to a rehabilitation clinic for a brief stay.

The Stones finally began their postponed European tour on July 11 in Madrid. Later that month, the band announced that the tour would continue in North America — where it started last summer — withadditional dates, including Halifax, Regina and Vancouver.

The tour has already visited Canada, the U.S., Brazil, Australia and China.