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Shot By: Danny Lyon

New years eve, 1966, by Danny Lyon.

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Before & After: Don't Look Back

Before - John Lee Hooker (1964)

During - Them (1965)

After - John Lee Hooker & Van Morrison (1997)

Movie of the Week: Charlie Is My Darling (1965 / 2012)

I wrote about this film when it was first released a couple of years ago. If you have not seen it yet, now is the time to remedy that. And watch it soon here before it gets taken down! Visit the official website here, and buy the DVD here. And hey, my friend Teri won a grammy for her incredible work on the sound mix for this! Huzzah!

Movie of the Week: Pop Gear / Go Go Mania (1965)

Pop Gear (in the US: Go Go Mania) is a British music review film, directed by Frederic Goode which was released in 1965. It contains live concert footage of The Beatles, and lip-synched films of some of the British Invasion bands, including The Animals, Herman's Hermits, The Nashville Teens, Peter and Gordon, Matt Monro, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, The Honeycombs, The Rockin' Berries, and the Spencer Davis Group). The material by The Beatles was lifted from a newsreel short The Beatles Come to Town (1963).

Produced by Andrew Loog Oldham for Impact Sound

Movie of the Week: Poor Little Rich Girl, Edie Sedgwick (1965)

Assembled from footage shot by Andy Warhol, this was originally supposed to be part of a series by Warhol, starring Edie, called The Poor Little Rich Girl Saga. Thanks to Bedazzled.

Movie of the Week: Perversion For Profit

A 1965 film anti-pornography film produced by financier Charles Keating, and narrated by George Putnam, it links pornography to the Communist conspiracy and the decline of Western civilization. Download it here.

"...its been stated that very few blind people join the nudist colonies."

Movie of the Week: Coltrane 60/61/65

Movie of the Week: Bill Evans Trio at the BBC (1965)

See It Now: Charlie Is My Darling

 I was lucky enough to catch the screening last night for the new (and first official) version of the 1965 Stones' Irish tour film, Charlie Is My Darling. Thanks Teri! All I can say is see it as soon as you can, and make sure you're watching it on the biggest possible screen with the best possible sound system you can. Its absolutely stunning both in sound & vision. It FAR surpassed any expectations I had. Catch it! Charlie is My Darling plays once more at the Walter Reade Theater in New York next Thursday. Read a nice piece on the film at The New Yorker here.

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Another event to watch out for will be The Museum of Modern Art presenting The Rolling Stones: 50 Years on Film, November 15–December 2, 2012. It will include: 

- Robert Frank’s S-8 Stones Footage from Exile on Main St (1972), and Cocksucker Blues (1972) 

- Peter Whitehead’s The Rolling Stones Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965 (1965/2012)

- the Maysles and Zwerin’s Gimme Shelter (1970)

- Donald Cammell and Nicholas Roeg’s Performance (1970)

- Taylor Hackford’s Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll (1987) 

- the band’s landmark concert appearances in Steve Binder’s The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)

- Leslie Woodhead’s The Stones in the Park (1969)

- Rollin Blinzer’s Ladies & Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (1974)

- Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1968/1996)

- Hal Ashby’s Let’s Spend the Night Together (1983)

- Martin Scorsese’s Shine a Light (2008)

- And even more!

Shot by: Burt Glinn

Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick and Chuck Wein, by Burt Glinn via World of Wonder

Charlie Is My Darling - Watch in full now!

As recently reported, the Stones will be releasing the long-bootlegged Irish tour documentary from 1965, Charlie Is My Darling, in early November. Someone has posted a copy (from a bootleg, I presume), and now you can have a look...but watch it soon. I'd be surprised if this is available to see for very long.

World Premiere of The Rolling Stones Charlie is my Darling - Ireland 1965 at New York Film Festival. Box Set out Nov. 6

ABKCO FIlms and the 50th New York Film Festival are proud to join in the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Rolling Stones by announcing the World Premiere of The Rolling Stones Charlie is my Darling - Ireland 1965 on Saturday, September 29th at 7:00 PM. An encore screening of the film will take place on Wednesday, October 3rd at 8:30 PM. Both screenings are scheduled for the Walter Reade Theatre.

What was once rumor is now fact as ABKCO Films presents a meticulously restored and fully-realized version of this first-ever, legendary but never released film. Shot on a quick tour of Ireland just weeks after the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” hit # 1 on the charts and became the international anthem for a generation, The Rolling Stones Charlie is my Darling - Ireland 1965 is an intimate, behind-the-scenes diary of life on the road with the young Stones. It features the first professionally filmed concert performances of the band and documents the early frenzy of their fans and the riots the band’s appearances inspired.

Charlie is my Darling is a rediscovered letter from a lost world. It has long been a holy grail of rock fans, surfacing in bits and pieces and tantalizing but frustratingly un-synched fragments. The band is shown traveling through the Irish countryside by train; dashing from cabs to cramped, basement dressing rooms through screaming hordes of fans. Motel rooms host impromptu songwriting sessions and familiar classics are heard in their infancy as riff and lyric are united.

This new 2012 version of the film with added never-before-seen footage was directed and restored by director Mick Gochanour and producer Robin Klein, the GRAMMY® Award winning team that brought the classic The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus to the screen. Charlie is my Darling’s dramatic and stunning concert footage – including electrifying performances of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “The Last Time” and “Time Is On My Side” – shows the band developing its musical style by blending blues, R&B and rock-n-roll riffs, and captures the spark about to combust into The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World. Candid, off-the-cuff interviews are juxtaposed with revealing, comical scenes of the band goofing on one another as well as unsuspecting outsiders, and offers an unmatched look inside the day-to-day life of the Stones.

Originally directed by pioneering filmmaker Peter Whitehead and produced by Rolling Stones manager and producer Andrew Loog Oldham, Charlie is my Darling is the lost preamble to a life captured on screen. Like no other band, the Rolling Stones repeatedly put themselves under the microscope, allowing the greatest filmmakers of our era – including Jean-Luc Godard, the Maysles, Robert Frank, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Hal Ashby and Martin Scorsese – inside their world. Charlie is my Darling is the invaluable frame: the unseen story of the band becoming the legend.

ABKCO Films will be making a major announcement regarding a nationally televised Broadcast Premiere in the next few weeks and has set Tuesday November 6th as the commercial retail release date for The Rolling Stones Charlie is my Darling – Ireland 1965, the director’s cut, the producer’s cut and this new 2012 version will be available on DVD, Blu-ray and as part of a Super Deluxe Box Set.

Before and After: I Wish You Would

Before - Billy Boy Arnold (1955)

During - The Yardbirds (1964)

During - John Hammond (1965)

After - David Bowie (1973)

After - The Blasters (1980)

Friday Ephemera: 1965

Courtesy of Its All the Streets, Village Voice ads, 1965 part 4

Before and After: It's Gonna Rain

Before - Sonny & Cher


After - Gentleman June Gardner


The Camel Drivers

Before and After: Riffs, Pt. 29

Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - Can I Do It For You (1930)


Ed & Lonnie Young - Chevrolet (1960)


Donovan - Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness) (1965)


The Animals - Hey Gyp (1967)


The Soul Survivors - Hey Gyp (1967)


Keith Shields - Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness) (1967)


Mance Lipscomb - I Want To Do Something For You (1967)


Taj Mahal - Chevrolet (1971)


Foghat - Chevrolet (1978)

Movie of the Week - The Astrodome

I'm missing baseball right about now, so here's a very cool short about the Astrodome dating back to the time (the mid 60's) of it's construction which I've been meaning to post for a while now. The eighth wonder of the world! We were promised jetpacks! Dig the Spacettes...They don't make 'em like they used to...

While putting this together for posting, I also came across a 2009 documentary about the Astrodome called The Dome Movie which may interest you.

Movie of the Week - The Responsive Eye