Saturday Night Attitude Dancing to Stone Music at the Happy 2021 Birthday of Sir Michael Jagger
by Robert Wilkinson
This week was the birthday for the frontman and co-founder of the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger. Because of the extraordinary number of great videos of Mick and the Stones (including some rare ones!) today we begin our dance early, and rock through the night!
Michael Phillip Jagger (26 July 1943) needs no introduction. One of the world’s best known singers and songwriters, with Keith Richards this duo has written some of the world’s best known music. They have always rocked, and rocked hard! And they’re still going strong today, with over 50 years of touring under their belts!
Mick’s done so many tunes it would be impossible to give any extensive catalog, since it would run into many hundreds of clips, and that’s beyond the scope of what these birthday tributes are. So today I’m going to give you a few clips that many have never seen. Some are from the beginning, some will give you a sense of the mayhem that could break out at a Rolling Stones concert, one is from a movie starring Mick, and others are prototypical music videos the Stones did just after the Beatles blew the music video world into manifestation.
We’ll begin with one of the most surreal sequences ever shot in any movie ever created! This is 3 minutes and 48 of Mick’s classic performance in the movie Performance, where he plays a burned out rock star. This song features Ry Cooder’s blistering slide and Randy Newman’s piano work! So here’s the shot where he becomes a mobster singing the incredible “Memo From Turner” Never one to give up if there's a stone unturned (so to speak, pun intended!) I poked around, and found this 6 minute clip from the movie featuring Mick doing a light saber dance to Merry Clayton belting out "Poor White Hound Dog,"shot years before Star Wars was conceived. The action begins about a minute into the clip. This is seriously psychedelic! Mick's Light Saber Dance in Performance
It’s gone again. Sometimes an amazing video clip showing the pandemonium that could break out at a Rolling Stones show bubbles up on the internet. It was from a Sept 1966 concert at the Royal Albert Hall, where a mini-riot broke out when some teens got worked up! Have fun with the energy! I did find this 90 second clip of this song at that clearly chaotic show. This is an extraordinary glimpse at the Stones when I thought they were at their peak! “Have You Seen Your Mother Baby (Standing in the Shadows)”
From 1966 in color live on The Ed Sullivan Show, a performance of the Stones to a backing track with Mick’s vocals live! “Have You Seen Your Mother Baby (Standing in the Shadows)”
Last year I had the original proto-music video done back in 1966. Because it’s disappeared, instead we have a 1966 Top of the Pops performance of “Have You Seen Your Mother Baby (Standing in the Shadows)”
This is considered one of the first generation music videos, following the Beatles’ lead in their groundbreaking “Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever” staged music videos. From July 1967, this song was the Rolling Stones’ ironic response to the Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love.” The Stones were being persecuted for drug use and a perceived lurid and decadent lifestyle, and so created this music video to promote their attitude toward the atmosphere. John and Paul contributed backing vocals. “We Love You.” The “A” side is the better known “Dandelion.” These were the last two songs produced by Andrew Loog Oldham for the band.
Going into the Wayback Machine, this is considered one of their early classic performances, even though the Stones thought they made a mistake trying to follow James Brown. You can see the look of dismay on Mick’s face. But of course, he kicked in his showmanship, and this show established them in the American media! For your enjoyment, the full 16 minute set in Santa Monica in 1964!
The Rolling Stones play The TAMI Show (Set list: “Around and Around,” “Off the Hook,” “Time is on My Side,” “It’s All Over Now,” “I’m Alright,” and “Let’s Get Together”)
From earlier in 1964, they’re live and playing several of their best to a backing track on The Mike Douglas Show. When they bring girls from the audience to meet the band about 7 minutes in, it looks like the girls are about to faint!
“Oh Carol,” “Tell Me,” “Not Fade Away,” and “I Just Want To Make Love To You”
From that show, here’s the clip of the first hit they wrote on their own! This was the tune that hooked me on the Stones in 1964! “Tell Me”
This looks like one of their earliest tv performances! Very young, very sincere, performing “Tell Me”
Also from 1964 on the Hollywood Palace tv show hosted by Deano, this is one of their earliest tv appearances where the Stones get us shakin’ to the Buddy Holly classic “Not Fade Away” and “I Just Want To Make Love To You.”
Back when they still did R&B standards, here’s a live performance of Arthur Alexander's classic “You’d Better Move On”
Another early live clip from 1964! “Little Red Rooster”
We’ll close this 1964 set with their appearance at the NME Awards in 1964! I found them all on one clip again!
This song broke the Top 20 in 1965! This clip of the Stones is from Shindig in 1965 giving us the very soulful “Heart of Stone”
From Top of the Pops in 1965, their smash hit delivered live, “The Last Time” Also from TOTP in 1965, a tune with BIG attitude! “Get Off Of My Cloud”
Live on Hullabaloo in 1965, “Get Off Of My Cloud”
Here Mick and the Stones are back on stage in 1965 when they won the NME Awards! The Rolling Stones at the 1965 NME Awards (“Everybody Needs Somebody to Love,” “Pain in My Heart,” “Around and Around,” and “The Last Time”)
Live in 1965, more kinetic energy as they crank up the pounding pulse of “Satisfaction”
Live in Ireland on their 1965 tour as seen in Charlie is my Darling, the Stones set off riots everywhere they played! From that tour, “The Last Time,” with the pandemonium continuing as they crank out "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction” which continues into “I’m Alright.” (This tour was the album "Got Live If You Want It.")
Special treat! As “I’m Alright” was a huge part of the Stones’ set list, here’s the 1963 original by its writer, the legendary Bo Diddley! From his album Bo Diddley’s Beach Party, the iconic “I’m Alright.” (where he seemed to rip of himself, since he did this earlier “version” which is both similar and different to “I’m Alright.” From 1959, Bo Diddley cranking up “She’s Alright.”
I found it again! It’s the 90 second clip of the Stones’ 1965 performance on The Ed Sullivan Show playing “2120 Michigan Avenue” as the credits rolled.
A fantastic live performance in 1966 on The Ed Sullivan Show! “Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown”
Live in 1966 lookin’ good cranking out “Paint it Black”
From Paris in 1966, the video’s a hodge-podge, some of it lousy, but the energy is kinetic! Rolling Stones Live in Paris (“Mercy Mercy,” “She Said Yeah,” “Play With Fire,” “Spider and the Fly,” “I'm Alright”)
Live on Top of the Pops in 1967 singing to a backing track, “Let’s Spend the Night Together”
Live on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1967, here's their classic "compromise" since Ed wouldn't allow them to sing the lyrics to one of their biggest hits! “Ruby Tuesday” and “Let’s Spend ‘Some Time’ Together” (The lyrics were changed because Ed was VERY up tight and getting the vapors thinking about the network censors!)
Here’s a music video with graphics straight out of 1967-68! For your enjoyment, from Her Satanic Majesty’s Request, “She’s Like A Rainbow.”
From that era, even though I can’t find a live performance, I’ve included this unique Stones tune from Beggar’s Banquet a slide guitar psychedelic R&B masterpiece with a Dylan influenced lyric style. For your enjoyment, “Jigsaw Puzzle”
Live in 1969 on The David Frost Show, the Stones with a backing track cranking out “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” (“Honky Tonk Women” has disappeared.)
From 1969, live in MSG, here’s a gritty performance of “Honky Tonk Women”
We’ll close this 60s oriented tribute to Mick Jagger with two performances of this iconic song! First, a live performance to a backing track from 1969! From Pop Go The Sixties, the harrowing “Gimmie Shelter,” And from the same year, live on the Ed Sullivan Show playing it live, a great performance of “Gimmie Shelter,”
I found it again! It’s a full 53 minute video of their legendary 1969 concert in Hyde Park! So for our first encore, here’s The Rolling Stones in Hyde Park 1969 – “Midnight Rambler,” “Satisfaction,” “I’m Free,” “I’m Yours She’s Mine,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “Honky Tonk Women,” “Love in Vain,” and “Sympathy for the Devil.”
This was edited out of the original production, so enjoy this rare video footage! The Rolling Stones in Hyde Park 1969 – “Mercy Mercy,” “Stray Cat Blues,” and “No Expectations.”
For our second encore, a longer 65 minute clip of only the performances! For your listening enjoyment, all 1 hour and 20 of The Rolling Stones Live in Hyde Park 1969
For our third encore, we’ll finish this show with something that featured Mick and the boys but wasn’t released for almost 30 years after it was made. The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus showcases a lot of the great acts of the time, including the Who, Jethro Tull, and an interesting band called the dirty Mac featuring John Lennon, Eric Clapton, and Mitch Mitchell. The early incarnation of Tull is an experience in itself, and of course the Who doing “A Quick One” life was risque’ at the time! From 1968, for your enjoyment, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. If you can ever find it, you may want to get a copy, since it’s a slice of time with the best of the best!
From that legendary show, two clips! First, Mick delivering his best 1968 performance of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” and from the Beggar’s Banquet album, Mick and Keith ripping off Elmore James! “Parachute Woman.”
This is how they ended the show. For your enjoyment, we close with the strange, sort of Kinkish “Salt of the Earth.”
These Library of Congress interviews are always great! From friend of the site Steve Taylor, here's the very long 1986 Off the record interview with Mick Jagger
If you want more early Rolling Stones, by all means check out some of their best in the recent birthday tribute to Ian Stewart at Sunday Early Show Celebrating the 2021 Birthday of Founding Stone Ian Stewart. Ian did ALL the keyboards on their material from the beginning right up to 1986, except for Their Satanic Majesties Request, Beggar’s Banquet, and Some Girls. I have several dozen Stones songs at the link which are different than the ones you heard here.
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