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... few would disagree that Mick T was more of a catalyst than Ronnie, or even Brian.

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Highlights:

1. Great footage of the Brian days, especially the intro before the curtains opened and then the mobbing onstage.
2. The Stones where really honest about Brian, his infleunce, his downfall, and that they could have done more for him.
3. Great footage of the JJF video: lots of focussing on Brian
4. Lots of outtakes could be heard: Salt of the Earth with guide vocals by Keith, the writing of Sitting on a Fence, a version of Goodtime Women that was closer to TD than the known outtake version, a different take of Moonlight Mile, Ventilator Blues and Angie

Dissapointing:

1. There was not any real, real new footage. No surprises like NME 68 footage, new '69 footage, no 70/71/73 professionally recorded concert footage except for the short snippet of Sydney 73.
2. The '70's where done by focussing on the '72 tour. Lots of new footage from backstage and in hotels, but no new footage from on stage.
3. 1975 to 1976 was done with...You Gotta Move from Abbatoirs....
4. 1978 to 1982 where combined in one strange combination of well known footage from '78 and '81, with the crowd from Barcelona 90 and Rio Copacabana.

Then it sudenly was over with a remark by Mick 'you can't stay young forever'. I thought that was really weird, we where really expecting another hour of film, or a part 2. No mention of Ian Stewart's passing, the WWIII in the 80's, Bill Wyman leaving.

A bit shocking was Jagger's reaction on Brian Jones's passing. He discussed sacking Brian, and mentioned Jones then died a couple of months later. He was corrected by the interviewer that it is was only '3 weeks later' and Jagger reacted with a, in my eyes, emotional 'oh fvck'.

Mathijs

Thanks Mathijs, interesting. This is why you cant let the subject of a documentary dictate too much. I'd pay anything to see backstage material form the 70s, all footage of Brian, anything with Keith in the mid late 70s.

The backstage material from 1972, was it cool?

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We haven't got any docu that tells all of it and goes all the way while doing so. And that's what we need.

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brownsugar86
Review of CH

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Was there any footage of the Stones rehearsing together from the December 2011 and/or Spring 2012 jams? A lot of people seemed to write off those jams as simply them getting together to film for the documentary. Well, was that footage included?

Maybe those jams weren't so exciting and fabulous as the director claimed them to be.

- Doxa

Uh yeah...ok..I guess? But everyone is confirming that the film's story ends around 1981...why would the director even insert any 2011 rehearsal footage at all? Even if it was kick ass footage..how does it fit in the context of this film? They add a small portion of "All Down The Line" from SAL probably to establish that they still were touring in the 2000's...but I don't see how random rehearsal footage would really fit? If anything, maybe it's a special feature on the DVD but even that seems out of place.

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Not so good review...

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brownsugar86
Review of CH

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What I loved was seeing incidents that I only knew from still photos suddenly become moving footage. Good choice of Stones music to accompany various scenes, too.

The film has a strictly limited time frame. Nothing after 1981, but nothing before 1964 either. If it's too early for film of the Stones to exist, it isn't talked about - so nothing about the founding of the band: they just appear, fully formed, causing riots in 1964. Nothing about any of their love lives either - just the history of the band, using those un-filmed interviews with Mick, Keith, Charlie, Ronnie, Bill and Mick T as the commentary. I enjoyed it a lot, and I certainly want to see it again.

Oh yes, I agree that those few seconds of One More Shot sound pretty good.

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On Danish TV, DR2, Saturday 24/11, 16:05

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corriecas
dont buy it.
not worth a lot.
it sucks the docu stops at 1982

this weekend at BBC and Belgium TV
jeroen

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corriecas
dont buy it.
not worth a lot.
it sucks the docu stops at 1982

this weekend at BBC and Belgium TV
jeroen

Before you start going all Corriecas on us, remember what the premise of the movie is. It's about the rise of the Stones, and by that it's very good. If you mistake the premise for "the entire career of the Stones", you are off the mark frm the get-go.


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