Stones in Exile
2010 Directed by Stephen Kijak
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In 1971, to get breathing room from tax and management problems, the Stones go to France. Jimmy Miller parks a recording truck next to Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg's Blue Coast villa, and by June the band is in the basement a few days at a time. Upstairs, heroin, bourbon, and visitors are everywhere. The Stones, other musicians and crew, Pallenberg, and photographer Dominique Tarle, plus old clips and photos and contemporary footage, provide commentary on the album's haphazard construction. By September, the villa is empty; Richards and Jagger complete production in LA. "Exile on Main Street" is released to mediocre reviews that soon give way to lionization.
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Essential for any Stones fan, or any fan of rock and roll period. It's a commercial Stones project, so it's not an outsider's view like the great doc Gimme Shelter, but the material and the year it focuses on is so incredible that you don't really care that it's a big commercial for the re-release of Exile On Main Street. Lots of rare footage and photographs of Keith during the band's best and most excessive year of existence.
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How to make the recording of an album - albeit one of the best albums ever recorded - interesting? Here's the answer.
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Essential for any Stones fan, or any fan of rock and roll period. It's a commercial Stones project, so it's not an outsider's view like the great doc Gimme Shelter, but the material and the year it focuses on is so incredible that you don't really care that it's a big commercial for the re-release of Exile On Main Street. Lots of rare footage and photographs of Keith during the band's best and most excessive year of existence.
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How to make the recording of an album - albeit one of the best albums ever recorded - interesting? Here's the answer.