By Bryan Thomas Nightflight.com
This documentary film concentrates on Jagger's life and career both within and without the Stones, across the period during which he was in his twenties, the period that also, for most fans, was the band's golden years, during which they produced music of a quite staggering quality. Features; Live and studio recordings of the finest tracks from this period. Rare footage, archive interviews with Mick and seldom seen photographs.
The Roaring 20s mainly covers the years between Mick Jagger‘s twentieth and thirtieth birthdays, beginning chronologically with his chance meeting with Richards, right up through to the disastrous Altamont concert in December 1969,
and ending with the recording of Exile on Main Street, considered by many to be the band’s masterpiece (the critics here debate Jagger’s minor input on the album, which may be one reason Jagger thinks Exile is overrated).
The documentary features lots of rare footage of Jagger and the Stones, archival interviews and lots of great, seldom-seen photos.
Here, director Alex Westbrook — who also directed The Rolling Stones: Mick Taylor Years 1969 to 1974, and Pearl Jam: Under Review, both of which you’ll find on Night Flight Plus — talks with former Stones P.A. & ex-1960’s NME editor Keith Altham;
rock bio author Alan Clayson; ex-Yardbirds guitarist Chris Dreja; broadcaster & rock journalist Paul Gambaccini; former Rolling Stones personal assistant Chris O’Dell; original Rolling Stones guitarist Dick Taylor; ex-Melody Maker writer Chris Welch; and, British rock writer Nigel Williamson (a contributing editor to Uncut/Billboard).
In 1964, when he was just 21 years old, Jagger and bandmate Keith Richards wrote one of their very first original songs together, “As Tears Go By.”
The now-classic melancholy-tinged ballad was actually recorded first by Marianne Faithfull, a 17-year old pop singer who was being promoted by their manager, Andrew Loog Oldham. 
Oldham was the manager who decided that the writing songs couple should have bennmade by Mick and Keith: " Mick knew, at least, how to write a postcard and keith could find the riff". “There are many good young players out there that do search and look and know that there is something more than what is being pumped out at them at the moment. For instance a young cat Ed Sheenan [sic]I found very interesting, he worked with us at Atlanta and Dallas… a one-man little band! Great voice.”
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