Rolling Stones Cocksucker Blues Movie (1972)
Cocksucker Blues
A film by photographer Robert Frank on the Rolling Stone's 1972 American tour.
Not released by the Stones because it contained scenes of drug use and groupie orgies.
Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor,
Danny Seymour, Bianca Jagger, Tina Turner, Truman Capote, Stevie Wonder,
Andy Warhol, Dick Cavett, Terry Southern, Princess Radziwell, Cynthia Jones,
various groupies, roadies and scalpers.
Directed by Robert Frank
Produced by Marshall Chess
Editors: Robert Frank, Paul Justman, Susan Steinberg
Camera: Robert Frank, Danny Seymour
Sound: Danny Seymour
1972, Unreleased; 95 min
Drugs, Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll (and drugs & more sex)
Of all the tours the Rolling Stones have made across North America,
the 1972 tour is still remembered as the most outrageous, most provocative,
most inventive musical outing the fab five from London ever performed.
Cocksucker Blues reads like a litany of rock high priest thou shalt's:
- watch everybody snort coke & shoot heroin
- marvel at Bobby Keyes and Keith Richard as they toss
a TV off their hotel balcony (first they check to see no one's below)
- thrill as Dick Cavett asks Bill Wyman,
"what's running through your nervous system right now?"
- smirk as Wyman doesn't answer
- leer as Mick Jagger rubs his dink through his pants,
then undoes them and gets his hand in for a better feel
- gasp as a girl trying to get into the concert complains her baby
was taken from her because she's always on acid
- laugh to discover a scalper is charging $10 for a $3.50 ticket
- chuckle as a totally stoned Keith tries to order room service for some strawberries,
blueberries and "three apples"
- look at your watch as the boys play some very drunken poker. See Keith win.
- ooh as Charlie Watts makes a very difficult pool shot in a southern diner
- moan as a naked groupie rolls on a bed, legs spread, fingering her pussy
- make notes as Keith tells Mick it's best to snort coke through a rolled up dollar bill
- guffaw as Mick turns to the camera after a brief meeting
with Tina Turner and says "I wouldn't mind…"
- look at your watch again as the tour crew packs the group's suitcases and cleans out their hotel rooms
- wonder in amazement as Bianca sits sullenly, smoking a cigarette and playing a little music box over and over.
Cocksucker Blues is an unreleased documentary film directed by Robert Frank
chronicling The Rolling Stones' North American tour in 1972 in support of their
album Exile on Main Street.
There was much anticipation for the band's arrival, with them having not
visited the United States since the 1969 disaster at Altamont Free Concert,
in which a fan, Meredith Hunter, was stabbed and beaten to death by Hells Angels.
The tour fulfilled its promise of tremendous rock and roll performances on stage.
Behind the scenes, the tour embodied debauchery, lewdness and hedonism.
The film was shot cinema verite, with several cameras with plenty of film left lying
around for anyone in the entourage to pick up and start shooting.
This allowed the film's audience to witness backstage parties, drug use, roadie antics,
fey artists and the Stones with their defenses down.
"Cocksucker Blues" was the title of a song Mick Jagger wrote to be
the Stones' final single for Decca Records, as per their contract.
Its context and language was chosen specifically to anger Decca executives.
The track was refused by Decca and only released later on a West German
compilation in 1983, although the compilation was discontinued and re-released
without the song.
The film itself is under a court order which forbids it from being shown unless
the director is physically present. This ruling stems from the conflict that arose
when the band, which had commissioned the film, decided that its content was
inappropriate and didn't want it shown. The director felt otherwise and thus the ruling.
However, bootleg copies of the film are available.
It has somewhat of a popular aura surrounding it around fellow rockers,
such as Marilyn Manson who mentioned viewing it and seeing his living room in it
(parts of it were filmed at the Mary Astor House, on Appian Way in Laurel Canyon
where Manson has resided since late 1997).
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