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Date Posted: 15:53:44 09/06/04 Mon
Author: Rob Weingartner
Subject: Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus DVD Release

STONES� �CIRCUS� FINALLY SET TO ROLL ON DVD

ABKCO Records will release the legendary Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus for the first time on DVD October 12th. Filmed before a live audience at Intertel VTR Services Limited, a North London TV studio in 1968, Rock and Roll Circus was originally conceived as a BBC TV special but it never aired. Rock and Roll Circus was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and centers on the original line up of the Rolling Stones � Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts (with Nicky Hopkins and Rocky Dijon) who serve as both the show�s hosts and featured attraction. The �World�s Greatest Rock and Roll Band� is seen and heard performing six Stones classics-to-be: �Jumping Jack Flash,� �Parachute Woman,� �No Expectations,� �You Can�t Always Get What You Want,� �Sympathy For The Devil� and �Salt of The Earth.�

The program also includes full length musical performances by The Who, Jethro Tull, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithful, Yoko Ono as well as The Dirty Mac, a group that was the first musical context in which John Lennon performed before an audience outside The Beatles. The Dirty Mac was Eric Clapton (lead guitar), The Rolling Stones� own Keith Richards (bass) and Mitch Mitchell of the Jimi Hendrix Experience (drums) with Lennon on guitar and vocals. A mirthful conversation between Jagger and Lennon to introduce The Dirty Mac finds them referring to each other as �Winston� and �Michael� with Jagger affecting a convincingly flat American accent and Lennon referring to himself as �Winston Leg-Thigh.�

The main program, first issued on video in 1995, runs 65 minutes. ABKCO�s new DVD version includes numerous additional bonus elements with the main program now remixed in 5.1 surround sound. The source for the DVD is a new digital transfer from the original 16mm negatives.

Newly recorded audio commentaries by Jagger, Richards and Wyman as well as Ono, Jethro Tull�s Ian Anderson, Faithfull, Mahal, Lindsay-Hogg and Anthony B. Richmond who was director of photography on Rock and Roll Circus are included. Additional commentary from journalist David Dalton who covered the original December 11-12, 1968 filming for Rolling Stone plus original audience member David Stark who was 13 years old at the time of the Rock and Roll Circus sessions. Heretofore unseen footage from the two marathon days and nights of shooting include a backstage encounter between Jagger, Lennon and Ono and a previously unseen alternate take four screen version (�quad split�) of Dirty Mac�s performance of the Beatles �Yer Blues� are among the many extra features. Three additional Taj Mahal songs from the original session plus a 2004 on-screen interview with The Who�s Pete Townshend are included. Footage of various circus performances, a still photo gallery and two classical performances by Julius Katchen are DVD extras as is the Fat Boy Slim remix of �Sympathy For The Devil.�

Michael Lindsay-Hogg is the pioneering music video director behind The Beatles� Let It Be feature film and many of the Rolling Stones� seminal video clips. During the course of his more than 40 year career, he has directed specials for Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Young, Paul Simon and The Who and was director of the �Brideshead Revisited� TV series. Tony Richmond is the veteran cinematographer whose feature film credits include �The Kids Are Alright,� featuring The Who; �The Man Who Fell To Earth,� starring David Bowie and Jean Luc Goddard�s �Sympathy For The Devil� that ABKCO released on DVD last year.

Rock and Roll Circus was produced for DVD by the same ABKCO team that produced the Grammy � winning Sam Cooke: Legend. Suggested retail list price for The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus DVD is $19.98.

The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (main program, performances)

1. Song For Jeffrey � Jethro Tull
2. A Quick One While He�s Away � The Who
3. Something Better � Marianne Faithfull
4. Ain�t That A Lot of Love � Taj Mahal
5. Yer Blues � The Dirty Mac
6. Whole Lotta Yoko � Yoko Ono & Ivry Gitlis with The Dirty Mac Band
7. Jumping Jack Flash � Rolling Stones
8. Parachute Woman � Rolling Stones
9. No Expectations � Rolling Stones
10. Sympathy For The Devil � Rolling Stones
11. Salt Of The Earth � Rolling Stones

DVD extras include

Checkin� Up On My Baby � Taj Mahal
Corina � Taj Mahal
Leavin� Trunk � Taj Mahal
Ritual Fire Dance � Julius Katchen
Sonata In C, First Movement � Julius Katchen
Yer Blues (alternate version) � The Dirty Mac
Backstage footage � Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Sympathy For The Devil � Fat Boy Slim Remix
Interview - Pete Townshend
Still photo gallery

Audio commentaries:
Mick Jagger
Ian Anderson
Taj Mahal
Yoko Ono
Bill Wyman
Keith Richards
Michael Lindsey-Hogg
Anthony B. Richmond
Marianne Faithful
David Stark
David Dalton

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