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Before: These three ladies are ready to be madeover for the Rolling Stones concert.

There will be all kinds of fans of all ages coming to Friday night’s Rolling Stones concert at the new arena.

That’s because the Stones have managed to stay on top so long they have fans that listened to their music on record albums, on tapes, and on CDs. Maybe now you listen on your ipod.

Being a Stones admirer means something different to each individual fan. That’s true for three special fans chosen by our news partners The Charlotte Observer for a Rolling Stones makeover.

Thousands of people are looking to get ‘Satisfaction’ from the Stones, but it could be that Janet Smith has looked the longest.

“I have loved Mick Jagger since I was a teenager,” she said. “I never though I’d get a chance to see them.”

Janet will get what she wants, a chance to see the Stones, and she’ll go with her daughter Cathy Nance and her granddaughter Rachel.

“It was the first time I had ever heard of the Rolling Stones,’ said Rachael.

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Three for the show

Before they go to the concert, these three generations of rockers are all getting remade.

First we asked them what their style was.

“Somebody’s grandmother, that’s my style,” said Janet.

“PTA mom, I mean I work on the weekends as a dispatcher,” said Cathy.

To get ready to go to the show the trio is getting clipped and zipped. They must be made ready for both the concert and for a makeover article in The Observer.

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Three generations of one family all ready for the Rolling Stones Concert.

“Since I’ve had a a makeover? It’s probably been about 20 years,” said Cathy.

That’s too long, said fashion consultant Sonya Barnes. But Cathy said there was one essential thing that their concert makeover needed.

“Leather. You can’t go to a Stones concert without some type of leather,” she said.

That is, unless you’re only nine years old.

“(We’re) still trying to keep her nine and looking hip,” said Barnes. “No Bowie shirts, absolutely not.”

After some curls, flips and spikes, the girls are ready courtesy of salon owner Tonya Reid of T. Reid And Company.

Then the three set up for a photo shoot with a little bit of attitude. It’s worked for the Stones and will work for these gals too.

Because, if only for a moment, time truly will be on their side.

“You really get wrapped up in softball and Girl Scouts and PTA and you kind of lose who you are and what you like so this will be a chance for all of us to get together,” said Cathy.

“Inside I guess I’ll always be 15. You know the outside marches on. Gravity takes its toll,” said grandmother Janet. “And you know, that’s OK. I still think it’s wonderful that he (Mick Jagger) is still doing what he does.”

The Rolling Stones have been at it for over 40 years and when they play at the new arena they will be doing so to a sold out crowd.

Thousands of people all looking for a little ‘Satisfaction’.

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