Let´s Spend The Night Together

Let´s Spend The Night Together

(aka. Rocks Off, Time Is On Our Side)

Directed by: Hal Ashby

Running Time: 95 min   Color   Date: 1981

Let's Spend the Night Together was the live concert film, documenting The Rolling Stones' 1981 North American Tour that somehow made the Rolling Stones the biggest stadium band from 1981 onwards, but in terms of performance, it's quite
boring, and the film itself, is a straightforward retelling of two separate US tour concerts edited together.
Premiered in cinemas around the world in 1982 and 1983

Let's Spend the Night Together is the Stones after they reached legendary status, with their venues and production values bigger and slicker but the quality is stale and forced, making it almost a parody of themselves. Ashby results are as exciting and eye-catching as must have been intended. Filmed at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, November, 5/6, 1981 and at the Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, December, 13, 1981. It was released in some countries as Holland, Italy, New Zealand and Australia with the alternative title Time Is On Our Side (with backstage footage cut in). The film was released as Rocks Off in Germany in 1982 with slightly different footage and the additional song "When the Whip Comes Down" (following "Under My Thumb") from Sun Devil Stadium.

Track listing:

  1. Under My Thumb (Tempe, Arizona) 13.12.81)

  2. When The Whip Comes Down (Tempe, Arizona) 13.12.81)

  3. Let’s Spend The Night Together (Tempe, Arizona) 13.12.81)

  4. Shattered (Tempe, Arizona) 13.12.81)

  5. Neighbours (Tempe, Arizona) 13.12.81)

  6. Black Limousine (Tempe, Arizona) 13.12.81)

  7. Just My Imagination (Tempe, Arizona) 13.12.81)

  8. Twenty Flight Rock (Tempe, Arizona) 13.12.81)

  9. Let Me Go (Tempe, Arizona) 13.12.81)

10. Time Is On My Side (Tempe, Arizona) 13.12.81)

11. Beast Of Burden (Tempe, Arizona) 13.12.81)

12. Waiting On A Friend (Tempe, Arizona) 13.12.81)

13. Going To A Go Go (East Rutherford, New Jersey 6.11.81)

14. You Can’t Always Get (East Rutherford, New Jersey 6.11.81)

15.  Little T & A (East Rutherford, New Jersey 6.11.81)

16. Tumbling Dice (East Rutherford, New Jersey 6.11.81)

17. She’s So Cold (East Rutherford, New Jersey 6.11.81)

18. All Down The Line (East Rutherford, New Jersey 6.11.81)

19. Hang Fire (East Rutherford, New Jersey 6.11.81)

20. Miss You (East Rutherford, New Jersey 6.11.81)

21. Let It Bleed (East Rutherford, New Jersey 6.11.81)

22. Start Me Up (East Rutherford, New Jersey 6.11.81)

23. Honky Tonk Women (Tempe, Arizona) 13.12.81)

24. Brown Sugar (East Rutherford, New Jersey 6.11.81)

25. Jumping Jack Flash (Tempe, Arizona) 13.12.81)

26. Satisfaction (East Rutherford, New Jersey 6.11.81)

Filmed at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford,

New Jersey and at the Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona

Premiere of the movie ‘Rocks Off - The Rolling Stones’, Germany August 1982

Note: Most songs were shortened and some were remixed

Premiere of the movie ‘Time Is On Our Side’

(Italian, Australian and New Zealand version of ‘Rocks Off’), Italy October 1982

Note: Lacking When The Whip Comes Down and having different footage cut in, into 2 songs

Private premiere of the movie ‘Let’s Spend The Night Together’, N.Y. January 1983

Note: Lacking When The Whip Comes Down and having different footage cut in, into 3 songs

World's Greatest Rock'n'Roll Party

Live In Concert From Hampton Roads
(aka. The World´s Greatest Rock´n´Roll Party)
Directed by: Hal Ashby/ Tom Trobovich 
Running Time:  175 min   Color   Date: 1981

Keith and Bobby Key´s birthday and the Stones first pay-per-view show; the 18th December performance at
Virginia's Hampton Coliseum was broadcast on pay-per-view TV and also in closed circuit cinemas.
It was the first such use of pay-per-view for a music event. The complete show is officially unreleased on video
(bootleg releases on various formats are available), a few songs were used as promo clips on TV stations worldwide.
Some songs from the film and the album Hampton Coliseum (Live 1981), are available at www.rollingstones.com

Track listing: Intro/ Under My Thumb/ When the Whip Comes Down/ Let's Spend the Night Together/
Shattered/ Neighbors/ Black Limousine/ Just My Imagination/ Twenty Flight Rock/

Going to a Go Go/ Let Me Go/ Time is On My Side/ Beast of Burden/ Waiting On a Friend

Let Bleed/ You Can't Always Get What You Want/ Little T&A/

Tumbling Dice/ She's So Cold/ Hang Fire/ Miss You/ Honky Tonk Women/

Brown Sugar/ Start Me Up/ Jumping Jack Flash/ Satisfaction

Sweet Home Chicago

Sweet Home Chicago
Directed by: Alan & Susan Raymond   Produced by: Nina Rosenstein
Running Time: 60 min   Color   Date: 1981

Film about Chicago blues music broadcasted in some TV stations and released also as VHS tape in November 1993. Including historic footage and interviews with many blues performers, this film captures the sound of the great urban blues artists and tells the story of Chess Records, the premier home of Chicago blues. Besides an interview with Jagger and some 60´s footage
of the Stones, we get a glimpse of the band with Muddy Waters at the Checkerboard Lounge in November 1981.
A restored film/audio edition from the complete show was officially released in July 2012 as "Live Chicago 1981"

When Muddy Waters took the stage at the Checkerboard Lounge in Chicago on
 November 22, 1981 to play a session with members of the Rolling Stones and fellow bluesmen Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and Lefty Dizz, no one expected it to become one of his last live concert appearances. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood and "fifth Stone" Ian Stewart, staying in Chicago for three concerts on November 23, 24, and 25, joined Muddy Waters in a few blues numbers for posterity. Also in circulation on unauthorized DVD releases, the complete/partial show with the same name "Sweet Home Chicago" or "Father & Sons".

Live In Chicago 1981

Directed by: ( )

Running Time: 97 min   Color   Date: 1981/2012

DVD: 1) Sweet Little Angel   2) Flip Flop And Fly  3) Muddy Waters Introduction

4) You Don’t Have To Go  5) Country Boy   6) Baby Please Don’t Go

7) Hoochie Coochie Man   8) Long Distance Call  9) Mannish Boy

10) Got My Mojo Working   11) Next Time You See Me   12) One Eyed Woman

13) Baby Please Don’t Go (Instrumental)

14) Blow Wind Blow   15) Champagne & Reefer
Bonus track: Black Limousine (from Hampton ´81 show)

CD: 1) Introduction Instrumental   2) You Don’t Have To Go

3) Baby Please Don’t’ Go  4) Hoochie Coochie Man

5) Long Distance Call   6) Mannish Boy   7) Got My Mojo Working

8) Next Time You See Me   9) One Eyed Woman  10) Blow Wind Blow  11) Champagne & Reefer

American Tour Of The Rolling Stones

Unconfirmed to exist, a tour film  ‘American Tour Of The Rolling Stones 81’, directed by Don Girdan, featuring
the complete 9th or 11th October show at Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles. Some info related to this film refers been
produced and released on video by Videostone in U.S. in 1982...unconfirmed and unseen

Some of the dates in the 1981 US tour were professionally filmed for archive purposes
and for TV newscast and tour promo reports, are reported to exist the following songs and concerts;

"Under My Thumb", "When The Whip Comes Down" and "Let´s Spend The Night Together" at Rich Stadium, Buffalo, September 27;  "Under My Thumb", "When The Whip Comes Down" and "Let´s Spend The Night Together" at Metro Center, Rockford, October 1; the whole shows at The Kingdome, Seattle, October 14 and 15; "Start Me Up", "Honky Tonk Women", "Brown Sugar", "Satisfaction", "YCAGWYW", "Little T&A", and "Tumbling Dice" at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, October 17 and 18; the complete show at the Astrodome, Houston, October 28; "Under My Thumb", "When The Whip Comes Down" and "Let´s Spend The Night Together" at Cotton Bowl, Dallas, November 1; "Under My Thumb" and "When The Whip Comes Down" at the Unidome, Cedar Falls, November 20; "Under My Thumb", "When The Whip Comes Down" and "Let´s Spend The Night Together" at the Carrier Dome, Syracuse,
N.Y., November 27, 1981.

Green Ice

Green Ice

Directed by: Ernest Day

Running Time: 116 min   Color   Date: 1981

The story has American electronics expert O'Neal visiting Latin America and being recruited into a scheme to steal emeralds from a Colombian consortium. It has an attractive trio of leadings actors in Ryan O'Neal, Anne Archer and Omar Sharif, but their performances are not impressive, at all. In true caper movie style, we get to see the plot as it is hatched and the subsequent robbery as it is put into motion. Bill Wyman composed and played the soundtrack for the movie

Originally released in 1981, the soundtrack album was re-released in October 2002

Live In Texas `78

Some Girls Live In Texas ´78  (aka. Fort Worth ´78)

Directed by: Lynn Lenau Calmes   Produced by: Jack Calmes

Running Time: 90 min   Color   Date: 1978

This concert is typical of the 1978 tour in support of Some Girls album, with the Rolling Stones delivering a raw performance, a back to basics approach. Unreleased at the time, (available in low-fi bootleg videos for some years), it was first premiered in cinemas worldwide, last November 2011...this is a must-see performance for any Stones fan

Originally shot on 16mm format, this pro-shot film was taped at the Will Rogers Auditorium in Fort Worth, Texas, on July 18th, 1978. The concert film was released on 15 November 2011, and the footage has been carefully restored and the sound remixed and remastered by Bob Clearmountain from the original multitrack tapes and including bonus features, newly interview with Mick Jagger; Tomorrow featuring Dan Aykroyd and Mick Jagger from Saturday Night Live, October 1978; Shattered , Respectable and Beast Of Burden performed by The Rolling Stones, 1978; excerpts from ABC 20/20 Special, with interviews by Geraldo Rivera from 20/20, June 1978 and an interview with Mick [France Aug 2011]

Track Listing: 1) Let It Rock 2) All Down The Line 3) Honky Tonk Women 4) Star Star 5) When The Whip Comes Down 6) Beast Of Burden 7) Miss You 8) Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) 9) Shattered 10) Respectable 11) Far Away Eyes 12) Love In Vain 13) Tumbling Dice 14) Happy 15) Sweet Little Sixteen 16) Brown Sugar 17) Jumpin Jack Flash

Some of the dates in the 1978 US tour were professionally filmed, and are reported to exist shot films of Mid-South Coliseum show at Memphis, June 28; Rupp Arena, Lexington, June 29; Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston, July 19; Alameda Coliseum (complete) show, Oakland, July 26. 

'Wings of Ash'

Wings Of Ash - A Dramatization of the Life Of Antonin Artaud 

Written/ Directed by: Marcus Reichert

Starring Mick Jagger, Dennis Lipscomb and Frances Barber

Running Time: 10 min   Color   Date: 1978

Wings of Ash, a pilot for feature film, written and directed by Marcus Reichert, with a simple plot,

Dr. Allende suggests Artaud, who is his house-guest for the night, go into psychoanalysis.

Artaud responds negatively and emotionally... Music by Brian Eno

Mick Jagger, as Antonin Artaud, and Marcus Reichert on the set of "Wings of Ash"