Co-produced by BBC Movement Gallery and ABKCO, The Rolling Stones Chronicles collection consists of six documentary shorts, every that includes a distinct ‘60s-era hit tune by The Rolling Stones as its soundtrack. The music is mixed with thematically related interview clips from the band and contemporaneous historic figures, interspersed with historic documentary footage of associated world occasions. Every episode shall be launched one week aside, each Thursday between Feb 9 and March 16, beginning with Episode 1 – The Final Time.
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Set to The Rolling Stones’ 1965 hit single “The Final Time” (US #9; UK #1), Episode 1 explains the affect of early rock and roll and Chicago blues on the band, and the irony of the British Invasion being the promoting of American tradition again to its nation of origin. That includes footage of B.B. King, Little Richard and lots of different heroes of the Stones, in addition to audio of Marshall Chess telling the story of assembly the Londoners and welcoming them to document in Chicago, one of many highlights of Episode 1 – The Final Time is Keith Richards describing the day he met future musical accomplice Mick Jagger on a prepare holding classic-yet-still-obscure R&B and blues data. “What you’ve obtained underneath your arm is value robbing,” Richards gleefully remembers considering.
Future episodes of The Rolling Stones Chronicles are based mostly across the seismic cultural shifts between 1965 and 1969, of which The Rolling Stones themselves have been emblematic. Episode 2 – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (launch date: Feb 16), set to the intercontinental #1 hit, follows the theme of sexual liberation, with a quick nod to David Bowie’s (then Jones) Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Lengthy-haired Males.
The explosion of psychedelics and the notorious “Redlands bust,” whereby Jagger, Richards, singer Marianne Faithfull and different pals have been arrested for drug possession at Richards’ house in ’67 is the theme of Episode 3 – She’s A Rainbow, being launched Feb 23.
The Rolling Stones Chronicles Episode 4 – Road Preventing Man (launch date: March 2), set to the tune partially impressed by the 1968 pupil upheaval in Paris and elsewhere, focuses on the extraordinary social unrest within the latter a part of the ‘60s, centered across the battle for racial equality, homosexual rights, the motion in opposition to the Vietnam Warfare, pupil demonstrations and the Troubles of Northern Eire. Among the many featured audio/visible clips are Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali, the latter of whom states, “My individuals first deserve freedom, justice and equality.”
The theme for Episode 5 – Jumpin’ Jack Flash (launch date: March 9), is the twin nature of expertise and its hyper-acceleration through the start of the pc age. The Chilly Warfare, the area race, and innovation in recording strategies are threaded along with footage of nuclear testing, astronauts and The Rolling Stones recording Olympic Studios as featured in Jean-Luc Godard’s movie Sympathy for the Satan).
The ultimate installment of The Rolling Stones Chronicles (Episode 6 – Gimme Shelter) shall be launched on March 16. The haunting 1969 monitor that opens the Let It Bleed album gives a backdrop for the theme of revolution and the turmoil that ended the last decade. The hippie motion, the funeral for unique guitarist Brian Jones and the Hyde Park tribute live performance, and the tragedy of Altamont are all captured. At one level, Jagger explains to an interviewer, “Most younger individuals are dissatisfied with the technology which they assume is operating their lives.” He’s then requested, “What issues are you dissatisfied with?,” to which he responds, “The technology that runs our lives.”
“The Rolling Stones Chronicles places the band’s music in context with historical past,” mentioned Robin Klein, exec producer of the collection. “Whereas they have been very a lot of that point, The Rolling Stones themselves served as a car for, and mirrored and impressed change.
Samira Choudhury, Producer for BBC Movement Gallery mentioned: “This mission supplied a novel alternative to unearth up to date and genuine voices from the BBC’s wealthy archive to provide deeper which means to the Rolling Stones’ most influential data, and present how the cultural and societal shifts of the 60s nonetheless resonate at the moment”.
The Rolling Stones Chronicles launch schedule:
Feb 9 The Rolling Stones Chronicles – The Final Time (EP1)
Feb 16 The Rolling Stones Chronicles – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (EP2)
Feb 23 The Rolling Stones Chronicles – She’s A Rainbow (EP3)
Mar 2 The Rolling Stones Chronicles – Road Preventing Man (EP4)
Mar 9 The Rolling Stones Chronicles – Jumpin’ Jack Flash (EP5)
Mar 16 The Rolling Stones Chronicles – Gimme Shelter (EP6)
