“Stones In Exile”
Now let’s go out dancin’, let’s rock ‘n roll! Sir Jagger
By Tom Wright

HOLLYWOOD,CA(Hollywood Today) 6/21/2010—”Stones In Exile” is  full of twists and turns,as we travel down this rock and roll highway with the Stones. A look at the creation and impact of the 1972 Rolling Stones album “Exile on Main St.”

Jagger spoke to Larry King about Exile On Main Street, about being in the basement  in France, Keith had Mick,Bill,Mick,and Charlie in his basement writing and recording the album that was to become their greatest.

The reissue includes 10 (or 11, according to Jagger) unreleased Stones tracks made in the early ’70s during the recording of Exile.

moving to France: “Somerset Maugham said, you know — has a saying, ‘it’s a sunny place for shady people.’”

On drugs: “You think you’re in control of this one enjoyable lifestyle, and there is a certain moment where you are. But then what happens is that the lifestyle starts to choose you. That’s the problem.”

Stones in Exile’s cinéma vérité style: “There is…no narrator. When we started off talking about this with the director, and I said that — and I discussed it with him and he, you know, totally into the same thing — he goes, I wanted that — the audience to feel that they were in 1972. I didn’t want them to feel that it was me and Keith sitting in armchairs and saying — you know, showing the guitars that they were played on.”

music critics: “I think it does matter. I mean, I think, see, there are some reviewers that you kind of respect to some extent. You know, there are some reviewers that just write rubbish, and, you know, you can discount them.”

Touring ‘I don’t know yet. But I look forward to doing it.”

Nice documentary covering The Rolling Stones’ 1972 album EXILE ON MAIN STREET, which today is considered one of the greatest albums ever made. We learn that the “exile” in the title was very appropriate as we learn the Stones were pretty much forced to get out of Britain due to the high taxes they were having to pay, which pretty much left them broke. We learn that they took their families to France where they began work on the album. This documentary is pretty much hit and miss but in the end there are enough good moments to make it worth viewing for fans. One part of the good news is that it contains footage from their CO**SUCKER BLUES documentary, which up to this point had only been available from bootleggers. The footage here looks a lot better than we’ve seen before so hopefully an official release of that will come at some point (even if the film is pretty bad). We also get some footage from LET’S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER, another true gem that needs to be released. We also get about fifteen-minutes or so of new footage with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Billy Wyman and Mick Taylor looking back on this period. We even get to see Jagger revisit the location of where the album was recorded. The biggest problem with the film is that it only runs 45-minutes so there’s not too much footage here and one really hopes that at some point an extended edition comes out. The documentary starts and ends with a few thoughts from various fans including Martin Scorsese, Sheryl Crow, Benicio Del Toro, Will i Am and various others.
Eagle Rock Entertainment are delighted to announce that they have signed a deal with the Rolling Stones to release two DVDs this year. The Rolling Stones have long been viewed by many as Britain¹s most important rock n’ roll band and these releases, concentrating on some of their finest work laid down in the ¹70s, will certainly cement that reputation.

The first of the releases Stones In Exile is the story of the making of the classic album Exile On Main Street, which was released in 1972 as a double LP and is considered by many to be their masterpiece. This title is due to be released in June with substantial bonus material and follows the broadcast of the main show by the BBC in late May, and the reissue of the album at the same time.

The second of the releases is Ladies And Gentlemen…The Rolling Stones, the legendary Rolling Stones concert film from 1972. Fully restored from the original film, it will be released nationally in cinemas and then receive its first ever authorized DVD release. The title will also be released in high definition on Blu-ray in the Autumn of 2010.

The Rolling Stones line-up featured on both Stones In Exile and Ladies And GentlemenŠ The Rolling Stones is: Mick Jagger ­ vocals; Keith Richards ­ guitars; Bill Wyman ­ bass; Charlie Watts ­ drums; Mick Taylor ­ guitars.

Geoff Kempin of Eagle Rock commented, ‘We are delighted to add a band of such unparalleled caliber as the Rolling Stones to our catalogue and are delighted to be bring to consumers a pair of such important and high quality titles.’

Eagle Rock Entertainment is an international media production and distribution company operating across audiovisual entertainment programming. Eagle Rock Entertainment works directly alongside talent to produce the highest quality programming output covering film, general entertainment and musical performance. Eagle Rock Entertainment has offices based in London, New York, Germany, France & Toronto.