Re: Candy......stones involvement?!
Posted by:
Casino Boogie
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Date: November 16, 2005 02:09
percystokes Wrote:
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> Anybody remember the film CANDY.It came out around
> 1968 /69.Cram packed with Big names.....the like
> of James Coburn, Walter Mathau, Richard Burton,
> Marlon Brando, John Astin [ Gomez from original
> Addams Family tv show]and Ringo Starr,to name but
> a few.
> I remember before it came out, I read somewhere
> that The Stones were supposed to be writing some
> songs for it. In the end The Byrds and Steppenwolf
> supplied the songs and Dave Grusin did the
> soundtrack to this film.
> When the film came out it was rubbished by the
> critics. To this day,it wasn't even considered
> good enough to be put on video in the UK. I
> thought it was great and saw it several times in
> the cinema.
> Anita Pallenberg also had a part in it.....God
> what a sexy woman she was....
> Anyway I got a copy of the dvd from USA and
> watched it last night . It is a masterpiece. The
> film is hilarious, the music is great, Ewa Aulin,
> who stars as Candy is gorgeous........
> PS I always thought that the Stones wrote Child of
> the moon with this film in mind............anybody
> know anything?
Never seen the film, but I recall reading an interview with Mick c.1970 when Performance was released and he spoke about doing film soundtracks
"Film people wonder why musicians don't like working with them. It's because they don't treat them well. They all think they're so groovy. They think they can just snap their fingers. Keith and I were asked to do the music for Candy. We went to see these people and they were just bullshitters and jivers. They made such a scene and only wanted to pay us &2,000 flat with no royalties or anything with all those songs we would have to write. it is hard to make film soundtracks and rock-and-roll groups can't really do it."