Yes, they are still playing. Still alive, for that matter. The Rolling Stones. Most of them. The two that matter, anyway. Mick Jagger turned 70 in July and the hard-partying Keith Richards somehow is about to be 70, too, later this month.

Their latest (last?) tour begins early next year, named the “14 on Fire Tour”.

And the first stop?

Right here in Abu Dhabi, where Mick and Keith will be among the oldest half of 1 percent of people in the whole of the country when they get on stage at the Du Arena, on nearby Yas Island. It already is being described as the biggest concert in the history of the UAE.

And maybe even more amazing than two septuagenarians still singing Let’s Spend the Night Together … is that it appears that they will fill the arena here — even with prices going up to 2,995 dirhams ($815). Each.

It’s just weird.

More power to them; I hope to live to 70, let alone be circling the earth, performing (walking, even), at that age.

Even as doddering geezers they have a grip on the imagination, certainly of English-speaking people.

The sports staff at The National, many of them young enough to be Mick’s grandkids), already are jockeying to see who gets to watch the Stones — and who has to work in the office the night they play Abu Dhabi, February 21.

It is the first stop of the 2014 tour, which is scheduled to have 12 dates, with the subsequent stops going to Japan, Macau, Australia and New Zealand.

And this follows only a few months after their 50 & Counting Tour, which begin in October 2012 and concluded in July of this year after gigs in Paris, England and the U.S.

Pre-sale tickets have been on sale for a few days, and general sales begin on Thursday. Organizers expect a sellout, and in this case it seems like they might get it.

I know someone who paid Dh395 ($108) for the cheap seats. Oh, wait. It isn’t even a seat. The Du Arena has only a few thousand seats, and all other tickets do nothing more than afford a buyer the chance to stand, or perhaps laze, if they are far enough from the stage and can find room to spread a blanket. Really.

I am going to pass. I didn’t like the Stones when they were young, aside from about four songs (Paint It Black, is one). I really don’t need to watch them 40 years past their peak.