ABKCO Films has in the present day (9) launched its The Rolling Stones Chronicles sequence on its Vevo-hosted YouTube channel. The assortment, co-produced by BBC Motion Gallery and ABKCO, consists of six documentary shorts, every one taking a special hit track from the band’s Nineteen Sixties period as its soundtrack.
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The music is mixed with thematically related interview clips with the Stones and different contemporaneous historic figures, interspersed with historic documentary footage of associated world occasions of the period. The episodes will seem each Thursday between in the present day and March 16, with Episode 1 – The Last Time now out there to view.
The movie facilities on the Stones’ 1965 hit single of that title, launched in February within the UK, the place it went to No.1, and March within the US, the place it made No.9. It explains the deep affect that early rock’n’roll and Chicago blues had on the band, and the irony that the British Invasion successfully offered American tradition again to its nation of origin.
The episode options footage of B.B. King, Little Richard, and lots of the Stones’ different heroes. We additionally hear Marshall Chess, of the Chess Records household dynasty, recounting the story of assembly the Londoners and welcoming them to document in Chicago. Another spotlight of Episode 1 is Keith Richards describing the well-known day he bumped into Mick Jagger on a prepare, the latter clutching seminal (however largely unknown on the time) R&B and blues data. He recollects considering: “What you’ve got under your arm is worth robbing.”
Future episodes of The Rolling Stones Chronicles will probably be based mostly across the seismic cultural shifts that occurred between 1965 and 1969, wherein the group had been in fact central gamers. Episode 2 – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, launched on February 16, is about to that enduring signature and follows the theme of sexual liberation, with a quick and amusing nod to David Bowie’s (then Jones) Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-haired Men.
Episode 3 – She’s A Rainbow, out there from February 23, focuses on the explosion of psychedelics and the notorious “Redlands bust,” at which Jagger, Richards, singer Marianne Faithfull, and different associates had been arrested for drug possession at Richards’ dwelling.
Episode 4, on March 2, is about to “Street Fighting Man,” the Stones traditional that was impressed partially by the 1968 pupil upheaval in Paris and elsewhere. It paperwork the extreme social unrest of the day, fueled by the battle for racial equality, homosexual rights, the anti-Vietnam War motion, pupil demonstrations and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Featured audio/visible clips embody these with Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali, the latter stating: “My people first deserve freedom, justice, and equality.”
Episode 5 – Jumpin’ Jack Flash (March 9) addresses the twin nature of know-how and its hyper-acceleration in the course of the delivery of the pc age. The Cold War, the house race, and innovation in recording strategies are interwoven with footage of nuclear testing, astronauts, and pictures of the Stones recording at Olympic Studios, as featured in Jean-Luc Godard’s movie Sympathy for the Devil.
The closing installment, Episode 6 – Gimme Shelter, arrives on March 16, soundtracked by 1969’s haunting opening monitor on the Let It Bleed album. That’s the backdrop for the theme of revolution and turmoil that ended the Nineteen Sixties, depicted within the hippie motion, the funeral for unique Stones guitarist Brian Jones and the Hyde Park live performance simply after his demise, and the tragedy of Altamont. “Most young people are dissatisfied with the generation which they think is running their lives,” Jagger explains to an interviewer. Asked “What things are you dissatisfied with?,” he replies “The generation that runs our lives.”
Robin Klein, govt producer of the sequence, says: “The Rolling Stones Chronicles puts the band’s music in context with history. While they were very much of that time, the Rolling Stones themselves served as a vehicle for, and reflected and inspired change.”
Samira Choudhury, Producer for BBC Motion Gallery provides: “This project provided a unique opportunity to unearth contemporary and authentic voices from the BBC’s rich archive to give deeper meaning to the Rolling Stones’ most influential records, and show how the cultural and societal shifts of the 60s still resonate today.”
Watch The Rolling Stones Chronicles on the official ABKCO YouTube channel.