And he said to me, 'Can you do it one more time?' I said, 'Yes - can you?' He said, 'Yeah, lemme talk to them.' And then he went to the other Rolling Stones and said this is it.'”įuture Black Sabbath co-founder Tony Iommi performed that day with Jethro Tull and recalled that he had no idea that the taping would become as legendary as it has: “I had no idea, quite honestly.
They had had their eyes in the viewfinders for 18 hours. And then Mick (Jagger) and I and a couple of other people thought, 'Well, maybe we should come back tomorrow night because people were exhausted, including cameramen. I think she's amazing (Daltrey ): Yeah, she's an amazing woman, that's for sure.”ĭirecto r Michael Lindsay-Hogg recalled capturing the Stones' defining moment in the show at a time when the band and crew's energy was nearly gone: “When we did 'Sympathy For The Devil,' there were, like, half-done takes before but they were exhausted. (Townshend ): I'm one of the select Yoko Ono fans ( laughter). (Daltrey ): Oh yeah, and Yoko was there and John (Lennon) had just broken up with his first - it was quite an event. But all in all, it was chaotic event that turned out incredibly successful. So it was kind of the last time I ever saw Brian Jones, which was incredibly sad. (Daltrey ): He was in reverse, he was in a very sad state.
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Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey were recently asked what they remembered about the Who performing on the TV special: (Daltrey ): “Um, Brian Jones walking backwards most of the time. Simply put, the Stones' ragged set was completely upstaged by Lennon's first solo performance and the Who's incredible run-through of their 1966 mini-opera “A Quick One While He's Away.” To underline the fact that the Stones were not at their best, plans were in motion shortly after for the Who to purchase the rights to the special and release it as The Who's Rock And Roll Circus.
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Many reasons have been given as to why the Stones eventually shelved the show - but the main one seems to be that the Who was reaching the peak of their performing career and were caught while limbered up from an exhausting series of UK dates.
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Not only was it Lennon's first gig apart from the Beatles, it was also his first live appearance with Yoko Ono, when she joined the Dirty Mac for an impromptu jam. The Circus was originally envisioned as being a holiday TV special for the Stones to promote their latest album, Beggars Banquet, and featured the band's final performance with Brian Jones, along with along with performances by the Who, Jethro Tull, Marianne Faithfull, Taj Mahal, and the Dirty Mac - a one-off supergroup with John Lennon, Eric Clapton, the Stones' Keith Richards, and Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell. It was 52 years ago today (December 11th, 1968) that the Rolling Stones and friends wrapped their two-day film shoot of their Rock And Roll Circus at London's Twickenham Studios.
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