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Brian O'Neill's avatar

I think she does some oohs on Sympathy For TheDevil? Pedant, I know. Also few people note Jagger’s attendance at the LSE at a time when tertiary education for grammar school boys was a big hitter on minds.

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Garth Cartwright's avatar

I think everyone in Stones entourage did "oohs". Not sure what LSE has to do with Anita? Mick obviously would have enjoyed success in bizness if the Stones hadn't succeeded - dude knows how to sell!

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Brian O'Neill's avatar

Sorry bad cold. I meant to indicate that he was more sophisticated than usually thought as the LSE was an intellectual hotbed then and seen as a great teaching place. More attractive for many than Oxbridge. Placed in the Strand in the centre of London. Keith of course limited after school to doing the Xmas post once!

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Garth Cartwright's avatar

Brian was the most middle class of them all but never was going to fit the 9-5 world - I believe when he first got to London he got a job in a department store but got fired for stealing from the til! Not a good un. Charlie & Mick both would have succeeded outside music. Keith would have not done much beyond dream of being Chuck Berry. Bill? Something sleazy likely.

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ERIN REESE's avatar

Anita, Marianne...the whole lot do the ooh oohs on "Sympathy." A good doc with that recording footage is *Symphony for the Devil." 👅

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Garth Cartwright's avatar

True re Goddard’s film - tho I wouldn’t call SFTD “good”…

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ERIN REESE's avatar

It's "good" in the sense that there is good footage, worthy of compiling so we have access ... Agree the doc is disjointed.

I did rather enjoy Crossfire Hurricane.

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Garth Cartwright's avatar

Very indulgent - as Goddard tended to be. But, yes, valuable footage.

Did you ever see Cocksucker Blues? I can't recall if Anita appears in it ('72 US tour). It conveys the rather brutal boys club the Stones were at that time. As the band come out of it as sleazy and amoral I can see why Jagger has never let it be screened.

Amazing to think of how many "Stones casualties" there were - starting with Brian and harvesting musicians, engineers, producers, lovers, associates... that K&A's kids seem so grounded is remarkable!

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ERIN REESE's avatar

We could talk all day re Stones as you know... 🤣 I've been trying to see Cocksucker Blues forever. If you ever locate a streaming version lmk. Did you see Crossfire Hurricane? Some raunchier bits there, too.

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Garth Cartwright's avatar

I'm sure I saw CH but I can't recall anything about it... age and the fact it was made decades after the era I'm interested in. I saw CS on bootleg DVD - if I'd known you hadn't seen it I would have got a copy for you. Its relentlessly raw...

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