Sex, Drugs & Rock N’ Roll: The Rolling Stones’ Story | Full Documentary | Amplified

foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes foreign [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] 2008 was a big year for the Rolling Stones not only did it Herald their biggest success on the British album chart since 1970 it brought up a major milestone for the two youngest members of the original lineup born in the same Hospital in Kent just five months apart Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had made it to pensionable age just one year earlier their five-leg Bigger Bang tour had finished up raking in nearly 660 million US dollars to become the highest grossing concert tour in history in case there was any doubt that they could still cut it live director Martin Scorsese preserved one of their recent two-hour concerts for posterity by committing it to celluloid his documentary shine a light proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that after 45 years of playing together the Rolling Stones could still lay claim to the title the greatest rock band in the world just another lot of hitchhikers that's what they look like to motorists speeding towards Hull you can't blame the driver they're keeping their eyes on the road the way Ernie marples wants them to [Music] because these apparent hitchhikers so blandly ignored are five of the most famous young men in Show Business the Rolling Stones the destination of the Rolling the story began back in London in 1962 with a 20 year old guitarist's determination to form his own rhythm and blues band Brian Jones who gave himself the stage name Elmo Lewis persuaded Mick and fellow guitarist Keith to join him and along with dick Taylor on base Ian Stewart on piano and Mick Avery on drums they played their first gig as the Rolling Stones at the Marquee Club on the 12th of July 1962. foreign by December dick Taylor had been replaced on the base by Bill Wyman and when Mick Avery left the boys already had their eye on a drummer from another band it was a blues band and they came and sat in I knew Brian first of all and then I met making keys and Mick was a singer with Alexis he had about four singers that he'd alternate whoever whoever was available really that's how I first met them and then I suppose a little while went by and then they just asked me to join the shy and Jazz obsessed Charlie Watts turned out to be the perfect fit [Music] foreign [Music] manager Andrew Oldham was grooming his scruffy proteges to be the opposite of the family-friendly beetles he set out to ensure they were hated by older generations to preserve their popularity with the young [Music] the legend goes that it was Andrew who came up with the line would you let your sister go with a rolling stone that went on to become a magazine headline gigs frequently erupted into violence at one concert in Blackpool Bill Wyman remembers that a gang of drunken Scots made their way to the front and started spitting at the band After ignoring warnings to stop Keith allegedly kicked one of them in their head things also got ugly at a gig in Holland in October where fans threw debris and wrecked seating before ambulances arrived to take away the injured The Traveler concerts enraged the authorities and incurred the vilification of the tabloids The Daily Mirror declared these performers are a menace to Law and Order and a result of their formula of vocal laryngitis cranial fur and sex is the police are diverted from bank robberies murders and other forms of Mayhem to quell the mob violence that they generate just as Andrew Oldham had predicted the bad press did nothing but fuel their popularity amongst the disenfranchised Youth and on the eve of their second U.S tour they were presented with an award by Britain's Melody Maker magazine [Music] Sydney's mascot airport and teenagers are working up to give the Rolling Stones pop group a welcome even more frantic and disorderly than the one given the Beatles just six months ago the climax team is the big jet taxi somewhere in between their grueling touring schedule which saw them packing more than 200 gigs around the world in one year the stones found time to pump out hits like a cover of Willie Dixon's Little Red Rooster and tell me written by Mick and Keith their second album The Rolling Stones number two went to number one in the UK and in June 65 they scored their first international number one with the song I Can't Get No Satisfaction it spent four weeks atop the U.S singles charts and confirmed the band as a worldwide top billing act Rolling Stones the most popular group but just as the Rolling Stones were reaching their peak in terms of popularity and critical success things were starting to go awry internally although Mick was the band's Undisputed front man it was Brian Jones who had always been considered the leader not only had he given the Rolling Stones their name he continued to dictate the direction of the band and make business decisions along with Andrew Oldham Rolling Stone magazine once wrote If Keith and Mick were the mind and body of the stones Brian was clearly the soul and Bill Wyman remembers him as a better natural musician than the rest of the band put together however as Mick and Keith's songwriting grew stronger and the band moved further away from its rhythm and blues Roots into rock Brian seemed to sense that he was losing control of his beloved creation photographer Jared menkowitz who worked closely with the stones from 1965 to 1967 remembers a particularly tricky shoot but Brian Jones was was being quite difficult sort of lurking in his collar the collar of his big brown fur coat hiding and and burying himself in a newspaper that he bought with him and I was really concerned that that he was going to mess the pictures up and I said to Andrew I'm worried about Brian Jared menkowitz wasn't the only one it's fair to say that by the age of 22 Brian had already lost control of his personal life having fathered five children by five different women in June 1965 his on-again off-again girlfriend Linda Lawrence finally left him and he was hit with a paternity suit by the mother of his third child 1967 kicked off with the release of between the buttons and it's single let's spend the night together which neatly bolstered the Stone's rebellious image just ahead of the famous Redlands drug bust which finally gave the establishment an opportunity to get their own back on the bad boys of Pop acting on a tip-off from the news of the world the West Sussex police raided a party at Keith's home in West wittering [Music] The Story Goes that when the police arrived at around 7 30 on a Sunday evening Mick's girlfriend Marianne faithful was sitting between two men on the sofa wearing nothing but a first skin rug Mick was arrested and accused of unlawfully possessing amphetamine tablets while Keith was charged with allowing his premises to be used for the purposes of smoking Indian hemp but if things were looking Grim for them and their co-accused Robert Fraser poor old Bryan was in even worse shape after spending his 25th birthday in hospital Brian's stormy relationship with Anita pallenberg had ended with Keith whisking Anita off to Spain on the day of Mick and Keith's arraignment in Chichester Brian and his friend Prince stanslas klaskovsky were arrested for possessing drugs after a raid on Brian's flat turned up hashish prescription pills and traces of cocaine while Brian confessed to smoking pot he denied using anything harder whether or not he was telling the truth Brian's claim was backed up by the observation of Jared menkowitz the grittier aspects of touring the sexier druggy aspects of touring were actually not very prevalent I mean there weren't a lot of drugs around there was some alcohol that was a bitter dope that wasn't really anything heavy and if there was it was very kept very much in in in the background I wasn't really aware of it at all Brian was to be condemned to a nervous weight while his bandmates sat trial first it was mixed turn after a morning in court Mick and Robert Fraser were rather peckish Mick ordered prawn cocktail roast lamb with mint sauce topped off with fresh strawberries and cream while Robert enjoyed a lunch of ice melon salmon salad and fresh fruit each of them washed their meals down with half a bottle of beausoleil at 10 Bob apiece the wine may have helped soften the blow of being found guilty and slapped with a three-month sentence Keith ended up receiving a one-year stretch The Establishment had put the stones on notice that the honeymoon was over however the following month they were set free on appeal and at a press conference afterwards Mick Shrugged off the role model label that the Press seemed so eager to pin on pop stars I'm not quite sure if this responsibility is quite as great as they make out because I believe that individuals really have that make their own minds up more than people think they really don't follow that doesn't that much you know I mean if they'd have followed Paul McCartney you know if all the Beatles fans in the world have followed Paul McCartney Just they would have taken acid by now which I'm sure isn't the case he rejected the idea of using his celebrity to push any kind of political or social agenda never done that in any way over anything over religion over drugs over politics over anything I've never because I don't consider myself knowledgeable enough or responsibly enough leader and he seemed unrepentant when asked whether he condoned taking drugs in private it's against the law you know that's not necessarily I mean it was against the law at one point not so long ago in the judicial history of this country to commit to attempt to commit suicide and some of those people who attempted to commit suicide were put in prison I think looking back on it it seems rather barbaric law and we might at one stage look back upon this set of laws and consider them in the same way with Mick showing no signs of remorse in the wake of his brush with the law another example needed to be made and next it was Brian's turn he pleaded guilty to allowing drugs to be used in his South Kensington flat on giving evidence he admitted that he had taken drugs in the past to a slight extent but went on to say that he now decided to have absolutely nothing to do with him he said that they'd only bought him trouble in the past and disrupted his career Brian was sentenced to nine months for possession of cannabis even though his sentence was commuted to three years probation upon appeal his conviction was upheld and he was ordered to seek immediate help just to rub things in Keith was now shacked up with his ex and Mick who was enjoying a high-profile romance with Marianne faithful was starting to flex his muscles within the band one day when we were doing the satanic Majesty's Nick in front of me came up with another photographer in tow and announced to Andrew that this guy was going to do the new cover and this is what was going to happen and I just knew that that was it I packed my bags and and that was it Brian by this time was making only sporadic contributions to the music but that didn't stop the stones returning to chart-topping form with the Beggars Banquet which spawned Mega hits like Jumping Jack Flash Street Fighting Man and Sympathy for the Devil but just one week after the rather messy launch of Beggar's Banquet Brian was in big trouble once again after a raid on his rented Chelsea flat he was sent up on another charge of possession of cannabis when he was found guilty in September despite already being on probation judge Seaton refused to send him to jail and instead urged him to get clear of the drugs despite the judge's Mercy the second conviction put paid to any chance of Brian being granted a Visa for a tour of the U.S to promote Beggar's Banquet [Music] things were coming to a head just as Mick and Marianne again fell foul of the law they were busted for possession of cannabis resin when the police raided their home in chain walk while they were waiting for their day in court the time had come to deal with a more major hindrance to the band's progress the rapidly combusting Brian with his declining Health inability to tour and lack of musical contribution to the band left them nowhere to go and after Mick Keith and Charlie drove out to his farm to break the news Brian agreed to bow out announcing that the Stone's music was no longer to his taste and that the only solution was to go their separate ways without as much as a grace period to let the dust settle on that announcement the band immediately lined up a photo shoot to trot out their new guitarist Mick Taylor Philadelphia [Music] just like that the soul of The Rolling Stones had been removed and replaced and it was business as usual thank you three weeks later Brian Jones lay dead at the bottom of a swimming pool at his home in Sussex after spending the night drinking and watching TV he and three friends had gone for a swim Brian was left on his own in the pool and when one of the women returned to check on Brian who suffered from asthma she found him lying motionless under the water attempts to revive him failed and he was declared dead just before 1am on the 3rd of July 1969. the coroner declared death by Drowning drugs and liver degeneration after an autopsy revealed that he had been suffering from pleurisy and an enlarged heart at the time of his death while there have been many conspiracy theories surrounding Brian Jones's death Bill Wyman remains convinced it was an accident and that Brian himself would not have been surprised at his parting he recalls that when Keith Richards once predicted he would never make 30 Brian's simple response was I know with a free Rolling Stones concert scheduled in Hyde Park two days later the Press was Awash with speculation that this show would be canceled out of respect for Brian but the concert went ahead as a tribute to the dead guitarist more than a quarter of a million fans for once gathered peacefully to hear Mick give a brief speech and then read an extract from Shelley's adenae as a eulogy to Brian the band played for an hour in the sweltering heat and just as quietly as they had arrived the crowd respectfully melted away after that tribute Mick remained true to the spirit of the band's name and kept on rolling by the time Brian's coffin was carried to its final resting place in Cheltenham five days later he had already left the country to star in the film Ned Kelly leaving other members of the band to mourn a groundbreaking artist whose very death made him a founding member of the elite 27 Club of musicians who died at the age of 27. meanwhile things were going badly for Mickey Marianne their relationship had been deteriorating since Marianne had miscarried their daughter the year before and not long after they arrived in Sydney she fell into a coma following an alleged massive overdose of barbiturates although she eventually recovered their relationship did not tensions were increased by the events at Altamont Speedway in Northern California at the end of the year the infamous free concert ended in disaster the 300 000 people who attended were terrorized by the Hell's Angels who were hired as security guards for 500 worth of beer then while the stones were playing a young fan who had drawn a gun was stabbed and kicked to death by one of the bikers in full view of the stage the stones were forced to continue their set in order to prevent a full-scale riot matters weren't helped by the couple's further trips to court the next year which resulted in Mick being fined 200 pounds for possession of cannabis by 1971 it was all over with Marianne and after a brief affair with Marsha hunt that produced a daughter Mick got engaged to his female lookalike Nicaraguan model Bianca Perez according to Bianca the Striking resemblance certainly hadn't been lost on Mick who felt he was looking into a mirror when they met she was later quoted as saying I want to be frank Mick wanted to achieve the ultimate in sexual experience by making love to himself in May 1971 he charted a plane to fly guests out to his wedding in Santa pay the guest list Red Like A Who's Who of the British pop scene and included Ron Wood Ronnie Lane and Kenny Jones of the faces Ringo Starr Paul McCartney and Paul's wife Linda what was intended to be a low-key Affair turned into a three-ring circus as soon as the media got wind of the intended venue ever aware of the benefits of keeping things sweet with the Press Mick was diplomatic in his attempts to shoe the hordes away [Music] he tried it again in French but they weren't going anywhere after managing to get through the ceremony in the 17th century Catholic Chapel the frenzy continued outside commenting on mixed wedding to the beautiful Bianca Keith reportedly said the devil certainly looks after his own the wedding marked the beginning of the Rolling Stones famous tax Exile after recording and releasing sticky fingers on their own record label the band moved to the south of France on the advice of their accountants they hung out in Keith's rented Villa and recorded in the basement the resulting album Exile on Main Street is now generally regarded as one of their very best however the 70s also brought disputes with their American manager Alan Klein drug problems within the band were also deepening especially for Keith who was racking up an impressive collection of arrest warrants the resulting visa restrictions made plotting tours more and more of a logistical nightmare amid such frustrations Mick Taylor quit and was replaced by Ron Wood who immediately gelled with Keith and seemed able to cope with his excesses although no one was able to keep him on the straight and narrow in 1976 Keith crashed his Bentley on a Motorway he escaped unhurt that at the police station in Newport pagno afterwards the pocket of his jacket was found to contain a small amount of drugs Keith was fined a thousand pounds but that was just a warm-up for the big one in Toronto the following month he and Anita were buffed in for possession of 22 grams of heroin Keith is charged with importing narcotics into Canada which carried a minimum seven-year sentence upon conviction he was remanded on bail of a thousand dollars and as the case dragged on and on Keith looked almost certain to go down the end he got off pretty lightly with the suspended sentence and was ordered to play two free concerts for the Canadian National Institute of the blind in Ontario but by the end of the nail-biting ordeal he was finally ready to swear off the drugs as Keith got more sober he started to assert more control in the studio causing tension with Mick relations within the band reached a low in the mid 80s when Mick embarked on a solo career and toured alone although he was quick to dismiss rumors of a split well I think the Rolling Stones are wonderful uh institution it's a bit like and it's got nice English country house and it sort of leaks a bit but people still want to see it and I think the Rolling Stones still uh will go on I hope they will and I hope they go on and make more records and tour again but right now this is what I'm doing for this year at the tender age of 45 he was already Fielding questions about when he might give away the tight pants and Loud guitars I don't know I'm pushing the boundaries here that's never been pushed this far before but while Mick may have enjoyed having his cake and eating it Keith famously referred to this period of their relationship as World War III and has been publicly disparaging of mixed solo output which has never been particularly well received by critics however 20 years later on the eve of releasing his best of album Mick remained defiantly proud of his solo efforts first of all you know you have to be pleased with everything that you do you have to be pleased with yourself you know and then then when you pay to other people want all your friends to like it and then you want critics to like it and then and you know of course you want the greater public at large to like it and and I think you know I think that uh you have you have oftentimes good success with yourself and good success of the public sometimes critics don't like things and you and and you sort of you know you can realize that really you you figure out the reason why I don't like it or they're very prejudiced or they're you know they don't like you anyway and they get a good chance to have a go at you but you know I'm quite pleased with and I hope people like this this collection not to be outdone Keith released his own album in the 80s called Talk Is Cheap which went gold in the US and garnered mostly positive reviews while Keith and Mick were at War and little was happening with the band musically it was 52 year old Bill Wyman who stole the headlines by marrying 19 year old Mandy Smith she's young enough to be his granddaughter he'll be drawing his pension when she's only 32. but the wheel has come full circle for the 60s Rebel their marriage blessing could not have been more traditional the child bride and her husband wanted all the establishment trappings Mandy had been just 13 when they met and their courtship had caused a scandal there was a there was a few problems on the way but we finally made it mixed Mrs gave them the thumbs up well I wish him lots of luck I think it's a very good idea he got married Charlie watt however was rather less optimistic I said I'm happy for him I don't know anything about it Bill who sits at number 10 on Maxim Magazine's living sex Legends list for allegedly sleeping with a thousand women has since conceded that his marriage to Mandy which ended in divorce in 1991 was a result of his mid-life crisis finally coming to terms with the aging process two years later he announced his retirement from the Rolling Stones and uh we're still great friends I still see them chatter but I just really don't want to do it anymore I've done enough it's 30 years and then there were four while bill was replaced on base by Daryl Jones Mick Keith Charlie and Ronnie have remained the band's core members and they face the Press together ahead of their post-apartheid tour of South Africa in 1995 to promote the Voodoo Lounge album in 1998 they finally managed to take the tour bus to Moscow at a press conference Mick explained that they had been trying to get permission to play there for 40 years and although many of their Russian fans may have preferred to greet their heroes in their Heyday they were still very welcoming of the wrinkly rockers while the Rolling Stones were playing to pack stadiums in Russia bill and his new outfit the Rhythm Kings were going back to their roots and playing rhythm and blues in small clubs the point is with the Rhythm Kings there's no limit to what you can do you can approach anything um of any style and from any ERA with the talent of musicians and singers I've got in the band we can do anything from reggae to Blues to Jazz to country rock I mean to Country Blues to rock to jump music reggae I've said that um just a whole mixture and early rock and roll Bill wasn't the only Old Stone who was feeling nostalgic on the eve of his 60th birthday Charlie indulged himself by gathering 10 of Britain's top Jazz musicians to play a series of gigs at London's top Jazz venue Ronnie Scott's not known for being talkative he did have a few words to spare on the subject of Aging I'm quite happy being 60 and I'll be quiet he's 70. when Mick's 60th birthday rolled around in 2003 he and the rest of the band were invited to celebrate at the British Embassy in Prague they were in the Czech Capital to strut their stuff in front of 60 000 fans at the Prague National Stadium as part of their 40 licks tour although they were still packing them in after more than 40 Years of playing together Mick had to admit that there weren't quite as many screaming female fans as they used to be it was all men Charlie says it was all men isn't that what that says um they left all the girls at home or what I don't know usually we get a few little bits of underwear on the B station last night there's a few wide fronts but anyway the 40-year celebrations also included the release of their fourth flicks DVD with such a long career behind them there was no shortage of bonus extras yeah a lot of stuff like you're there you know like but you're not but yeah I know there's a lot of Backstage stuff but there's a lot of show there's three shows and uh you know a documentary a couple of documents and sort of bootleg staff and some old stuff yeah there's a bit of everything Keith seemed to be having a little difficulty getting his 60 year old head around all the new technology I I'm really I'm not that way inclined so I'm still learning but uh Hey DVD is cool you know I mean I'm learning Apparently one thing that wasn't cool as far as Keith was concerned was Mick's decision to accept the offer of a Knighthood in reaction to the news Keith is reported to have made it known that he didn't fancy taking to the stage with someone wearing a Coronet and sporting the olderman and said it's not what the stones is about is it many of the band's fans were also disappointed with Mick's apparent abandonment of the anti-establishment stance that have brought him Fame and Fortune but Sir Mix seemed unperturbed by the criticism as his chauffeur-driven limousine pulled up in front of Buckingham Palace to accept what Keith had described as his effing poultry honor afterwards he appeared suitably gentrified it was rather wonderfully um uh formal and some wonderful outfits I noticed everyone that it's what's rather good is like there's everyone represented from all over England and Wales and Scotland and Ireland and from every Walk of Life from uh you know historians to beekeepers this is rather great a tiny trace of the old Anarchy however remained in the fact that he had kept her majesty waiting 18 months before turning up to accept the honor in a company of his 92 year old father Joe and two daughters well I've been on two you know I chose the convenient date for myself and the Palace of been very uh understanding of that and I'm sure they are with lots of other people who not everyone can turn up on the first one I've been on tour so the first date that was good for me when my family could all be here I chose to Keith Richards complaints his reported response was I think he's a bit like a balling child who hasn't got his ice cream but then so Mick can never be said to have suffered much from self-doubt well you know you're always pleased with what you do you know really wouldn't do it the [ __ ] strutting stage performances that earned him the title of the greatest front man in the world are a testament to his Supreme confidence not only as a performer but also in his private life over the years his famous conquests have included Carly Simon Chrissy shrimpton and former Brazilian model Luciana Jimenez Murat since splitting up with Jerry Hall in the late 90s mixed ponchant for Larger than Life lovers has led him into the arms of six foot four model Loren Scott despite following seven children with four women he has only been down the aisle twice while working on the soundtrack of the 2004 remake of 60s classic Alfie journalists asked if he saw similarities between himself and the commitment phobic womanizing main character there's Alfie and every woman every man too um no I think you know Alfy's young attractive man you know and and you think I think that whole idea at the beginning of the picture is that you know he's why shouldn't he have lots of girlfriends it seems perfectly natural that he would because they're all throwing themselves at him but then and then it's quite amusing how he deals with them and so on because it's only a bit later on that you get when you when that draws you into the picture that you feel then you see the problems that that creates and so on but but you know he's he he is a guy that has a lot of girlfriends lots of love affairs but he doesn't have much else going on either yeah you know he drives a car he's a very repetitive job doesn't really have any interest in anything else he's not interested in anything as far as I can work out in the picture except seduce him more well the same certainly couldn't be said of Mick aside from acting in a few movies over the years and writing the odd soundtrack he also owns his own production company Jagged filmed although Mick has been criticized in the past for not lending his celebrity to humanitarian causes he recently did his bit by dipping into his reported 200 million pound Fortune to finance a pop video to publicize the terrible situation in Sudan's Darfur or you can do in a very small way if you're a celebrity and some of these things is to keep the thing in front in the agenda keep it in the public uh agenda keep it in the political agenda as much as you can then there is his solo work after more than 30 years of pumping out songs from his various solo projects and soundtracks he finally sat down to make sense of them in a 17 Song collection called The Very Best of Mick Jagger the process made him quite sentimental well I I suppose you're always attached to the beginnings of your career when you're really young in a lot of ways and you you know that when you're young so much happens so quickly and it's all telescoped into this very small time frame but as many things happened his best of solo album included collaborations with John Lennon and his daughter Charis proving that you can teach an old dog new tricks he even learned a thing or two from Lenny Kravitz he had this house in Miami so it's so when I turned out I thought we were going to be writing together and I went to his little studio and he said so this is it and I said yeah it's okay so he plays me this and it's the track it's completely the track it's all him playing all him drumming but there's no vocals and I said so yeah well I thought we're going to write a song he said yeah we now you have to write the lyrics and sing the song so you you know so he completely finished it and we didn't get to write it so it's a very odd way of doing it which it actually worked out was fantastic in the end however there can be no doubt about Mick's First Love ever since that first night at the Marquee Club back on July 12 1962 his spiritual home has been the stage you know I've just been I was very um blessed with being having a lot of energy ever since I was a kid and you know and being very active and my parents always encouraged me and to keep you know in good shape and stuff and I've always been very energetic and I thought I don't think um you know I would feel bad about doing a show if I wasn't really fit to do his scratchy vocals and free-form performance style have been ridiculed and parodied countless times over the past 40 years but no other singer has come close to matching his ability to bring packed stadiums to their feet and keep them there for over two hours what makes it work for me is being interested in what I'm doing and really keen on monitoring being excited about getting out there on stage and also what makes it work for me is the audience and how they're responding and so on and um so you know that's what the energy between the two is what really makes it for me [Music] [Applause] first performance of their 2005 tour please welcome The Rolling Stones in 2005 Mick and the rest of the band were in Boston to kick off the Stone's Bigger Bang tour to a packed house in Fenway Park he may not have experienced the Boston crowd's first time around but after 30 odd years in the band Ron Wood understood what kept both the Rolling Stones and their fans coming back for more I think just giving the pleasure and filling the adrenaline from the audience and they feel it from us as well it's a great it's a great buzz it keeps you young the two-hour Extravaganza loaded with Rolling Stones Classics like Honky Tonk Woman brown sugar and Sympathy for the Devil also included a few numbers from the tours accompanying Bigger Bang album Mick described the album sound as a good mix of the old stones and new music yeah definitely you will be integrating all our new songs into the new album we've got coming out which is very vibrant and very contemporary but yet hard-hitting yeah classical Barney Stone their back catalog of several hundred songs sprinkled with new numbers gave them Endless Options for the 35-day United States tour which also took in Canada and Argentina fantastic fans in Argentina a brilliant loud masculine noisy football loving enthusiastic um yeah and many of them and we're very happy to go there the South American schedule also took in Brazil where they treated equally enthusiastic fans to a free concert that closed down Copacabana beach but it's been fascinating to watch and to watch the at night I've been watching the guys get the stage and the lights together during the day that the people is moving it has become it's an amazing sight you know especially from way up there you know because say well I hope we can handle it you know just like so much action you know there's boats and there's band you know those people in costumes there's just a lot of noise and very big drums and that's great people are still as we're talking out still coming in so we don't know nobody comes today there's gonna be a lot of people by Nightfall more than a million fans had flowed onto the beach and when asked what inspired them to put on the free concert all that Latin passion was clearly rubbing off on Charlie and the women were knocking on hardly the tour also included the band's first ever gig in mainland China newly cashed up fans in Shanghai were happy to hand over around 375 US dollars for a ticket this is the Rolling Stones first ever concert in China it's very significant I know the stones have wanted to play China for a while but it also also symbolic for what's happening in China China's you know opening up to the world and the bridge between you know the international side and China is becoming a lot shorter now in early 2006 the band took a breather before embarking on the European leg of the mega Bigger Bang tour while in the southern hemisphere Keith took the opportunity to squeeze in a bit of beach time over in Fiji with his wife Patty for reasons that have never been explained he was attempting to climb a palm tree when he fell and landed on his head initial report stated that he had sustained only a minor concussion but after being flown to a hospital in New Zealand he ended up having to undergo cranial surgery fans gathered outside the hospital concerned that the years of hard partying may have finally caught up with the man of whom it was once said If ever there was a nuclear Holocaust only two things would survive cockroaches and Keith Richards it turned out to be just one more chapter in a story that seems to contain as much myth as fact one of the most famous claims made about Keith was that he had a complete blood transfusion as a cure for heroin addiction back in 1973. he has since admitted to spreading that rumor himself another more recent headline declared that Keith had mixed his father's cremated remains with a bit of cocaine in what may be called his strangest drug experience to date his manager later explained that Keith's anecdote had been meant as a joke however Keith himself later confirmed to Mojo magazine that he had indeed snorted his father's ashes but that he chopped them up like cocaine not with back on board the bigger bang bandwagon albeit six weeks behind schedule he was still cracking the jokes at an Italian press conference they put me out like a light you know but um I remember making the decision to go ahead and do it and uh I was surprised myself usually I'd be hanging from the ceiling at the idea of bracelet history not but I had total confidence in it when you got to do it you got to do it you know and I was in woke up I was pissed off when they woke me up because I was having such a great sleep you know despite looking like he could still do with a nice long lie down he was raring to get back on with the show I feel great I can't wait to get back on the stage again you know basically everything's cool for once however his timing was a little off with his onstage Partners just as Keith was coming good Ron announced he was off for a spell in rehab to deal with alcohol problems while mix had come to a bout of laryngitis forcing the cancellation of yet more shows thankfully they were all back on form in time for the cameras to start rolling on the documentary of their concert at the Beacon Theater in New York when it came to choosing a director there was only ever one real candidate anyway growing up with the stone songs of the soundtrack to his own life Martin Scorsese admitted he owed a lot to the band So for me the sound of the music the the the chords uh the vocals the the um the entire the entire feel of the music inspired me greatly uh and while I was I kind of say it it became a basis for um most of the work I've done in my movies going from Mean Streets even before but from Mean Streets On Through uh Raging Bull all the way up into uh casino and the end to the departing although Mick originally wanted to film a much larger concert Marty sold him on the idea of taking the cameras into the much more up close and personal atmosphere of a theater geek I'm just looking at it for Pure pure beauty of performance and that's the idea it's something I'd like to capture for people in in the future to see to experience them and don't forget the cameras will place in such positions that the audience doesn't normally get to see that's the idea the film which also captured mixed duets with Christina Aguilera Jack white and legendary blues guitarist Buddy Guy got the big thumbs up from Ronnie Wood you do really do feel like you're there you know on stage and um it's quite an experience for us we actually all watched it and um Berlin together we we thought nah we don't want to see the whole thing but it was quite good you know we enjoyed it at the film's premiere in Berlin Keith confessed the whole thing has gone off so smoothly that he hadn't even noticed the cameras this is not action this is me doing my thing and uh and thank God that Martin wanted to capture it because I mean I had no idea the cameras were on I mean I just do my thing you know I mean so whatever comes out is what is not that he's adverse to a bit of acting when the opportunity comes his way as it did when he was invited to play Johnny Depp's father in Pirates of the Caribbean at World's End that appearance earned him best celebrity Cameo at the 2007 Spike horror Awards since then he's fielded plenty of other acting offers but nothing has tempted him so far with that it was back to their main gig and rehearsals for the final European leg of their record-breaking Bigger Bang tour and after 45 years of touring the world the prospect of getting back on that bus hadn't lost any of its appeal for Charlie who just loves to play I mean we have as good a Time the Earth and out there with nobody in the room and two o'clock in the morning that's when you're doing a big show it's more like a strange Pastime um in a funny way it's very odd because you kind of live for the next show which could be you know the next day so you're all the time is you're building up then that way it's kind of akin to a bit like a sports being in sports because you're working out for the you know the you know you practice you run about you know you play the song You Know rehearse but then the actual thing is only two hours and when it's over it's over and then you go you're looking for the next one and you pack up and you move you know so that everything is geared to those two hours in the next place so you know you always you know that's that's that's the way it is and according to their fans they still haven't reached their Peak as they get older they get better without any shadow of a doubt they get better like all of us we get older we get better they get better the best band you'll ever see you can't beat them [Applause] who else the stones but now that even the youngest member has passed 60 how long can the stones realistically keep on rolling until we drop we'll still be going with the 70. I'll do it in the wheelchair [Music] foreign [Music] it's just like my whole life is happy now while they are still getting reviews like that will there ever come a time to think about retiring well I'm sure they will but I'm not right there yet so I'm enjoying what I'm doing that'd be great I'm really not worrying about when I'm stopping and the Rolling Stones Legacy musician or a Minstrel look at the best thing you can have on his Tombstone is he passed it on [Music]

Channel: Amplified - Classic Rock & Music History

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Keywords: Amplified - Classic Rock & Music History, classic rock music, famous music documentaries, famous music groups, famous rock bands, history of music, iconic bands, legendary rock bands, music biography documentary, music documentaries, music history, music history films, music legends, pop culture biographies, pop culture documentaries, pop culture legends, rock and roll documentaries, rock legends, rock music, rock music legends, rockstar biographies

Id: Oi5A5GS17AQ

Length: 46min 34sec (2794 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 20 2021