{"id":2972,"date":"2023-02-25T05:14:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T05:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2023-02-25T05:14:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T05:14:54","slug":"the-rolling-stones-chronicles-mini-documentary-series-launching-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/25\/the-rolling-stones-chronicles-mini-documentary-series-launching-today\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ROLLING STONES CHRONICLES MINI-DOCUMENTARY SERIES LAUNCHING TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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ABKCO + BBC MOTION GALLERY MARRY ROLLING STONES MUSIC WITH \u201860S AUDIO\/VISUAL FOOTAGE TO CONVEY AN INNOVATIVE SKETCH OF AN ERA\u2019S FOMENT AND UPHEAVAL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABKCO Films launch The Rolling Stones Chronicles series on its Vevo-hosted YouTube channel today, February 9. Co-produced by BBC Motion Gallery and ABKCO, The Rolling Stones Chronicles series consists of six documentary shorts, each featuring a different \u201860s-era hit song by The Rolling Stones as its soundtrack. The music is combined with thematically relevant interview clips from the band and contemporaneous historical figures, interspersed with historical documentary footage of related world events. Each episode will be released one week apart, every Thursday between Feb 9 and March 16, starting with Episode 1 \u2013 The Last Time.\u00a0
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Set to The Rolling Stones\u2019 1965 hit single \u201cThe Last Time\u201d (US #9; UK #1), Episode 1 explains the influence of early rock and roll and Chicago blues on the band, and the irony of the British Invasion being the selling of American culture back to its country of origin. Featuring footage of B.B. King, Little Richard and many other heroes of the Stones, as well as audio of Marshall Chess telling the story of meeting the Londoners and inviting them to record in Chicago, one of the highlights of Episode 1 \u2013 The Last Time is Keith Richards describing the day he met future musical partner Mick Jagger on a train holding classic-yet-still-obscure R&B and blues records. \u201cWhat you\u2019ve got under your arm is worth robbing,\u201d Richards gleefully remembers thinking.\u00a0

Future episodes of The Rolling Stones Chronicles are based around the seismic cultural shifts between 1965 and 1969, of which The Rolling Stones themselves were emblematic. Episode 2 \u2013 (I Can\u2019t Get No) Satisfaction (release date: Feb 16), set to the intercontinental #1 hit, follows the theme of sexual liberation, with a brief nod to David Bowie\u2019s (then Jones) Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-haired Men.\u00a0\u00a0

The explosion of psychedelics and the infamous \u201cRedlands bust,\u201d wherein Jagger, Richards, singer Marianne Faithfull and other friends were arrested for drug possession at Richards\u2019 home in \u201967 is the theme of Episode 3 \u2013 She\u2019s A Rainbow, being released Feb 23.\u00a0

The Rolling Stones Chronicles Episode 4 \u2013 Street Fighting Man (release date: March 2), set to the song partially inspired by the 1968 student upheaval in Paris and elsewhere, focuses on the intense social unrest in the latter part of the \u201860s, centered around the struggle for racial equality, gay rights, the movement against the Vietnam War, student demonstrations and the Troubles of Northern Ireland. Among the featured audio\/visual clips are Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali, the latter of whom states, \u201cMy people first deserve freedom, justice and equality.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0

The theme for Episode 5 \u2013 Jumpin\u2019 Jack Flash (release date: March 9), is the dual nature of technology and its hyper-acceleration during the birth of the computer age. The Cold War, the space race, and innovation in recording techniques are threaded together with footage of nuclear testing, astronauts and The Rolling Stones recording Olympic Studios as featured in Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s film Sympathy for the Devil).\u00a0

The final installment of The Rolling Stones Chronicles (Episode 6 \u2013 Gimme Shelter) will be released on March 16. The haunting 1969 track that opens the Let It Bleed album provides a backdrop for the theme of revolution and the turmoil that ended the decade. The hippie movement, the funeral for original guitarist Brian Jones and the Hyde Park tribute concert, and the tragedy of Altamont are all captured. At one point, Jagger explains to an interviewer, \u201cMost young people are dissatisfied with the generation which they think is running their lives.\u201d He is then asked, \u201cWhat things are you dissatisfied with?,\u201d to which he responds, \u201cThe generation that runs our lives.\u201d\u00a0

\u201cThe Rolling Stones Chronicles puts the band\u2019s music in context with history,\u201d said Robin Klein, exec producer of the series. \u201cWhile they were very much of that time, The Rolling Stones themselves served as a vehicle for, and reflected and inspired change.\u00a0

Samira Choudhury, Producer for BBC Motion Gallery said: \u201cThis project provided a unique opportunity to unearth contemporary and authentic voices from the BBC’s rich archive to give deeper meaning to the Rolling Stones’ most influential records, and show how the cultural and societal shifts of the 60s still resonate today\u201d.\u00a0

The Rolling Stones Chronicles release schedule:\u00a0
Feb 9 The Rolling Stones Chronicles – The Last Time (EP1)\u00a0
Feb 16 The Rolling Stones Chronicles – (I Can\u2019t Get No) Satisfaction (EP2)\u00a0
Feb 23 The Rolling Stones Chronicles – She\u2019s A Rainbow (EP3)\u00a0
Mar 2 The Rolling Stones Chronicles – Street Fighting Man (EP4)\u00a0
Mar 9 The Rolling Stones Chronicles – Jumpin\u2019 Jack Flash (EP5)\u00a0
Mar 16 The Rolling Stones Chronicles – Gimme Shelter (EP6)\u00a0

ABOUT ABKCO Music & Records, Inc., is one of the world\u2019s leading independent entertainment companies. It is home to iconic music catalogues that include compositions and recordings by Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, Bobby Womack, Eric Burdon, The Animals, Herman\u2019s Hermits, Marianne Faithfull, The Kinks as well as the Cameo Parkway masters by such artists as Chubby Checker, Bobby Rydell, Clint Eastwood, The Dovells, ? and The Mysterians, The Orlons, Dee Dee Sharp, Charlie Gracie, Bob Seger, and The Tymes. Releases on ABKCO\u2019s SAR Records include albums by L.C. Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Billy Preston, Johnnie Taylor, The Valentinos, Mel Carter and more. ABKCO is active on many fronts, including the release of critically lauded soundtracks, compilations, reissues from its catalog, film, commercial placement of its master recordings and music publishing properties in all media. One Night In Miami\u2026, ABKCO\u2019s latest theatrical production, received a nomination for the 2017 Olivier\u00ae Award for Best New Play and three Academy Award nominations as a Major Motion Picture directed by Oscar\u00ae winner Regina King. ABKCO\u2019s latest TV production is The Durrells in Corfu, based on Gerald Durrell\u2019s book The Corfu Trilogy and ABKCO\u2019s latest releases are The French Dispatch (Original Soundtrack) and its companion album Chansons d\u2019Ennui Tip Top by Jarvis Cocker.\u00a0\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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