Richards apologises for 'falling off my perch'

Keith Richards in Auckland after his surgery. Phil Walter / Getty Images

LONDON - The Rolling Stones have rescheduled their European concert tour after injured guitarist Keith Richards apologised for "falling off my perch" while holidaying in Fiji.

Richards' fall - he was flown to New Zealand to undergo surgery for a head injury after tumbling from a palm tree - forced the ageing rockers to postpone the tour which they were due to start in Barcelona, Spain last month.

"Excuse me. I fell off my perch. Sorry to disrupt everyone's plans but now it's full steam ahead. Ouch," the 62-year-old Richards said in a statement.

The European tour will now start in Milan on July 11 and end in Horsens, Denmark on September 3.

- REUTERS