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18/03/2008 Shine A Light, the new Rolling Stones film & album: encore
The Rolling Stones are the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band – and self-promo specialists - in the world. No doubt about that. Whenever new Stones product is about to hit the streets, boy do you know about it! With a few weeks to the launch of Shine A Light, the new film/double live album, the Stones are everywhere once again – in the mag racks (on the covers of current issues of both major heritage rock monthlies, UNCUT and MOJO); on the radio; in newspaper and magazine website advertising; and, I’d bet my life on it, TV/radio programmes, ads and interviews will be lined up ready to roll nearer the release dates. Some people disdain the Stones’s strong commercial impulse. I applaud it - great musicians, great self-promoters; rich men, satisfied customers.
EARLIER RELATED ARTICLE: Shine A Light, the new live Rolling Stones 2CD, recorded at the Beacon, New York City in late 2006, is set for UK release on Monday 7 April. (Tracklist below.) It’s followed on Friday 11 April by the nationwide UK release of the film of the same name, directed by Martin Scorsese. And preceded on Wednesday 2 April by the film’s UK premiere – in London, but also to be shown in 100 cinemas nationwide: tickets cost £12.50.
Jumping Jack Flash I’ll be passing on the CD and the cinema show, but waiting to buy the DVD in about three months – unless it’s as ludicrously overpriced as the last two Stones concert DVDs - Forty Licks and The Biggest Bang – which, combined, cost a cool £100 – about £75 too much - when I last looked in HMV! Gerry Smith
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