Crossfire Hurricane (2012)

Directors

Brett Morgen

Cast

Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman, Brian Jones

The story

On their 50th anniversary, the Rolling Stones, with the support of archive footage and interviewed by director Brett Morgen, retrace the first 20 years of their career. The film discusses their early success in the 1960s; the way the media characterised the difference between them and the Beatles; the exceptional musical talent of Brian Jones; their first song-writing; the difference between the boy fans' aggressiveness that resulted in fights with the police and the girl fans' screaming hysteria; Mick Jagger and Keith Richards drug use and their arrest; the musical contribution of Jones that was waning due to excessive use of drugs, and…

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