Video Rewind
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Video Rewind by The Rolling Stones
is a compilation of video clips recorded between 1972–1984. Instead of just presenting unrelated clips and videos just strung together, it uses a framing 'story', featuring Mick Jagger
and Bill Wyman
, directed by Julien Temple
and includes some video directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg
.
, until he reaches a buried storage room with the label, "Exhibit of Ancient Antiquities". He gains entrance with an American Express
Gold Card. Inside the room is a plethora of rock memorabilia. Wyman walks through, making comments on some of the items - " A Gary Glitter
chest wig.....authentic!". On seeing a c.1965 Paul McCartney
jacket with a MBE
on it , he comments, "They never did give us one of these, did they?" - and takes it from the jacket. He sits down at a computer terminal
, and pulls up the first video. After the first video, he remembers that something might be in the room. He pulls a cloth off an exhibit - which is Jagger - in suspended animation
wearing a c.1973 stage outfit. Wyman wakes Mick up, and they go through the exhibit, 'playing' videos on such things as a microwave oven and an old TV, but mostly on Wyman's stylized computer, making pithy comments all throughout: MICK: "Bill, you ever try and sleep in the same room as Keith?" BILL: "No..but Ive tried to sleep in the same hotel as him!', and so on. The piece ends with real museum guards crashing through the locked door and carrying Bill off, Jagger still in the exhibit glass. Then the image fades to Bill being waken up backstage by Mick - it's time to go on. However, Wyman now has an MBE on his jacket.
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
is a compilation of video clips recorded between 1972–1984. Instead of just presenting unrelated clips and videos just strung together, it uses a framing 'story', featuring Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
and Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist for the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1992. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings...
, directed by Julien Temple
Julien Temple
Julien Temple is an English film, documentary and music video director. He began his career with short films featuring the Sex Pistols, and has continued with various off-beat projects, including The Great Rock And Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners and a documentary film about Glastonbury.-Temple...
and includes some video directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Sir Michael Edward Lindsay-Hogg, 5th Baronet is a British television and stage director and an occasional writer and actor.-Background and early work:...
.
Framing footage
The video starts with Bill Wyman - who conceived and developed the compilation - in a guard's uniform, making his way through the British MuseumBritish Museum
The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...
, until he reaches a buried storage room with the label, "Exhibit of Ancient Antiquities". He gains entrance with an American Express
American Express
American Express Company or AmEx, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Founded in 1850, it is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best...
Gold Card. Inside the room is a plethora of rock memorabilia. Wyman walks through, making comments on some of the items - " A Gary Glitter
Gary Glitter
Gary Glitter is an English former glam rock singer-songwriter and musician.Glitter first came to prominence in the glam rock era of the early 1970s...
chest wig.....authentic!". On seeing a c.1965 Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
jacket with a MBE
MBE
MBE can stand for:* Mail Boxes Etc.* Management by exception* Master of Bioethics* Master of Bioscience Enterprise* Master of Business Engineering* Master of Business Economics* Mean Biased Error...
on it , he comments, "They never did give us one of these, did they?" - and takes it from the jacket. He sits down at a computer terminal
Computer terminal
A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that is used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a computer or a computing system...
, and pulls up the first video. After the first video, he remembers that something might be in the room. He pulls a cloth off an exhibit - which is Jagger - in suspended animation
Suspended animation
Suspended animation is the slowing of life processes by external means without termination. Breathing, heartbeat, and other involuntary functions may still occur, but they can only be detected by artificial means. Extreme cold can be used to precipitate the slowing of an individual's functions; use...
wearing a c.1973 stage outfit. Wyman wakes Mick up, and they go through the exhibit, 'playing' videos on such things as a microwave oven and an old TV, but mostly on Wyman's stylized computer, making pithy comments all throughout: MICK: "Bill, you ever try and sleep in the same room as Keith?" BILL: "No..but Ive tried to sleep in the same hotel as him!', and so on. The piece ends with real museum guards crashing through the locked door and carrying Bill off, Jagger still in the exhibit glass. Then the image fades to Bill being waken up backstage by Mick - it's time to go on. However, Wyman now has an MBE on his jacket.
Track listing
- Midnight Rambler - from ‘Cocksucker Blues’-movie, part only
- "She Was Hot" - promo 1984
- "She's So Cold" - promo 1980
- "Emotional Rescue" - mix of both promos 1980
- "Waiting On A Friend" - promo 1981
- interview with Keith RichardsKeith RichardsKeith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and placed him as the "10th greatest guitarist of all time." Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting...
(Norman Gunston Show Australian TV ‘78) - "Satisfaction" - Hampton 18.12.81, part only
- interview with Keith Richards
- "Angie" - promo 1973 (version 1, with Mick Jagger sitting)
- "Brown Sugar" - live mix 1972/76/81
- footage from Cocksucker Blues - movie 1972
- "Neighbours" - promo 1981
- "Too Much Blood" - promo 1984
- "It’s Only Rock ’n Roll" - promo 1974
- interviews with Charlie WattsCharlie WattsCharles Robert "Charlie" Watts is an English drummer, best known as a member of The Rolling Stones. He is also the leader of a jazz band, a record producer, commercial artist, and horse breeder.-Early life:...
, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood (20/20 US TV 1978)
- interviews with Charlie Watts
- "Miss You" - promo 1978, part only
- "Undercover of the Night" - promo 1983 (version II)
- "Start Me Up" - live mix 1981/82 (f.e. Hampton 81, Leeds 82)
- interview with Mick Jagger (after show in Memphis ‘78 (N. Gunston Show 1978)
- + more very short footage through the years