Ladies And Gentlemen the Rolling Stones.
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An exhilarating reminder of why I once loved the Stones above all other bands, and, by extension, also of why I eventually lost interest in them. Although even up to this century they still occasionally show glimmers of their former powers, this film is two solid hours of pure musical magnificence. Mick Taylor's fluid leads (and youthful beauty) were never more beguiling; Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman were never more dynamic as a driving rhythm section; and Mick & Keith were still very much a team rather than onstage adversaries. The drugs they were famously ingesting by the boatload were obviously still working for, rather than against, them. None of them had reached the suspect age of 30 yet, and the setlist contains no nostalgic looks back at their early hits - this is a working band flogging their latest release, which just happened to be the greatest rock & roll album of all time, Exile on Main St, A must-see for anyone who wonders how the Stones got the title of World's Greatest.