The Rolling Stones - Charlie is My
Darling (Album Review).
Filmed on a two
day Rolling Stones tour of Ireland in September 1965, Peter Whitehead's
fifty-minute documentary garnered only limited showings before being shelved. In
2012, ABKCO returned to the source material to restore and expand the film to
sixty-five minutes, releasing it as a single DVD and a five-disc
box set that included the DVD, a
Blu-ray, an LP and two CDs.
The second of those CDs featured thirteen live
tracks from the tour's concerts, recorded at the peak of the Stones first
incarnation. Those tracks are now being released as digital downloads,
augmenting the meager selection of commercially released early live
performances, such as 1964's T.A.M.I. Show and 1965's UK EP Got Live if You Want It.
Included among the
tracks are many icons of the Stones early live set, including covers of Solomon
Burke's "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love," Bo Diddley's rave-up "I'm Alright,"
Hank Snow's "I'm Moving On," Willie Dixon's "Little Red Rooster," Allen
Toussaint's "Pain in My Heart," Bobby Troup's "Route 66," Jerry Ragovoy's "Time
is on My Side," and two Jagger/Richards' originals, "Off the Hook" and "The Last
Time."
The latter was the Stones' first hit single of 1965, but by the time of
their Irish tour, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (which is included on the box
set's first CD) had already topped the U.S. chart and was just about to peak in
the UK.
The mono recordings
are surprisingly listenable, given the state of mobile recording in 1965.
These
tracks don't have the presence or instrumental separation of live albums made a
decade later, but Jagger's vocals are seated nicely into the mix, and the
guitars, bass and drums are all legible.
Better yet, the screaming crowd adds
electricity without often overwhelming the music. The only thing that would be
better is for the live tracks from the box set's first CD to have been added
here; at only 28 minutes (and as a digital collection with no physical length
limitation), there's plenty of room.
Stones fans will want to see the
documentary, but will also need the audio tracks for more regular
rocking.
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