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As far as Rolling Stones concert films go, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones doesn’t have the elemental status of the Maysles Brothers’ dark verite Gimme Shelter. It lacks the notoriety of Robert Frank’s unreleased but often bootlegged Cocksucker Blues. It has no marquee director like Hal Ashby (1983’s Let’s Spend the Night Together) or Martin Scorsese (2008’s Shine A Light). It’s been on ice for the entire home entertainment era, but it merits a place among the better known classics because you simply will not find the Rolling Stones looking or sounding any better than they do here.
The long belated release is the latest to revisit the Exile era (joining the reissued double album and the DVD documentary Stones in Exile), which most consider the band’s absolute peak. “People get softer as they get older,” Jagger quips during an interview on vintage BBC pop program, The Old Grey Whistle Test (part of the extras, which also include Swiss tour rehearsal footage and a brief, new interview with Jagger in which he critiques the band’s dubious fashion statements: “Charlie’s wearing a Rhumba shirt!”). Many believe the Stones began softening in ’73 — becoming a more vulnerable and indulgent band in between bursts of genius like 1978’s Some Girls and 1981’s Tattoo You—but on Ladies and Gentlemen they’re beyond hard enough and rough enough to make us forget all that. — Vanity Fair
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