Fans from other countries must therefore hope that some network will acquire the rights to broadcast the series. In the US, Epix has already done it, which will broadcast "My life as a Rolling Stone" starting from 7 August next.
The 78-year-old rock legend highlighted how he and Keith Richards would get annoyed that Brian was assumed to be the songwriter when really it was them doing all the leg work.
Jagger says: “He was very musical, so he could pick up different instruments, and he was quite innovative, so a lot of his contributions were perhaps not for melodies and lyrics but from licks that he played. Yeah, he liked to tell people it was his band, but we were always like 'Really? What do you mean it's your band?' We thought it was our band, not Brian's."
However, when Mick Jagger and Keith Richards began their successful songwriting partnership, Brian Jones lost control over the band’s musical direction. Jones also developed alcohol and drug problems, which caused him to be mentally unstable. After some point, he could not function within the band due to his unreliable performances. After the disagreements between Jones and the rest of the band, the singer was eventually dismissed in 1969 and died a month later. (Rockceleb)
I remember Brian being rather critical of me once because he thought I was too feminine. I mean, I had my moments of that.”
The concert on April 17, 1967, saw crazed fans try to rush on stage, police beat partygoers with batons and a member of the Stones' team Tom Keylock lose five teeth amid the chaos.
But the tumultuous show, which had to be stopped three times, also marked Brian's last full concert with the band before his exit and it was two years before the Stones toured again. (Watch footage below)
Wood, 75, recalled: “ Charlie (Watts) He drew every bed he slept in, every meal he ate, every hotel room
The Rolling Stones have remembered their “immaculate” friend and drummer Charlie Watts in a new documentary series looking back at the band’s history.
Watts, who drummed in the iconic rock ‘n’ roll band for more than half a century, died on August 24 last year at the age of 80.
In a new four-part documentary series on BBC Two, My Life As A Rolling Stone, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards reflect on their bandmate’s “particular” personality and his unique on-tour habits.
Ronnie says: “I had the pleasure of him showing me one of his tour books once, they’re very simple line drawings, and he’d have ‘put your coat here’ or a little sign like that, mixed with all kinds of details from the room.
And I always said to him: ‘Charlie, you should release these, people want to see them.’ ‘Nobody wants to see these,’ and I’d say: ‘They do Charlie, it’s a real eye into your world.’
He totally underestimated his power as a person.”
My Life as a Rolling Stone, set to premiere Aug. 7 on Epix.
The series, titled My Life As A Rolling Stone and produced by Mercury Studios, will premiere on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer in the summer, as part of the corporation’s programming across TV, radio and digital platforms, to pay tribute to the band.(Scotsman)
My Life as a Rolling Stone was co-directed by Oliver Murray and Clare Travenor, both of whom have worked on Stones-related projects before.
The four, hour-long films will each be an “intimate portrait” of Sir Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and the late Charlie Watts, and will feature “unrivalled access to and newly-filmed interviews” with the band, as well as interviews with names like American singer PP Arnold, Chrissie Hynde, Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, Sir Rod Stewart, Tina Turner and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler.
During an appearance on CBS Sunday Morning, Richards says his switch in instrument added a new angle "I've been playing a lot of bass on The Stones’ new tracks.'We Plan to Record With New Drummer Steve Jordan"
Keith Richards doesn't "have much control" over the Rolling Stones.“The Stones seems to be a creature with a life of its own. “You don’t really have much control over it. It’s just a case of, ‘We’re going to do this, OK. Here we go again!"
" You write the song, you record it, you take it on the road and then the thing takes on a life of its own, you know.
That’s the fascinating thing about what I do. Songs still keep growing and changing and there’s a freshness about them still, which is encouraging at my age.”
Keith Richards has revealed that he’s been “playing a lot of bass” on The Rolling Stones‘ upcoming new material. and making of his newly reissued solo classic ‘Main Offender’ and much more on Rolling Stone Music Now. (Rolling Stone)
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Speaking to the Daily Star newspaper’s ‘Wired’ column (via Music-News.com), the musician spoke about spending a week in Jamaica to work on music with Stones frontman Mick Jagger. Richards told the newspaper that him picking up the bass guitar provided “another angle” to the legendary band’s sound. “It’s quite interesting – at the same time it’s Stones man,” he said.
