Rare 1965 Rolling Stones doc - 'Charlie is My Darling'
The other day while re-reading a great Rolling Stones book I have, I learned of a movie that Andrew Oldham and Rolling Stones shot while on a September 1965 jaunt to Ireland called "Charlie Is My Darling". IMDB notes:
"The 1 hour show was put together in January 1966 by the Stones' manager Andrew Oldham from a combination of concert footage taken during the tour of Ireland in autumn 1965 and backstage interviews, during which Brian Jones discusses his fear of marriage, Charlie Watts his limitations as a musician and Mick Jagger impersonates Elvis!"
Trouser Press quoted Oldham as saying about the film:
"There's a film around that I did with them in Ireland - Charlie is My Darling - that I think we spent more money on the credits than we did on the film. I think it was actually two grand on the credits, four grand on the film. Looking back, it seems like it was just an exercise in bullshitting ourselves. We just wanted to be able to see the credits. Then we said, 'We'll go on with this' but we never did."
But David Dalton, author of the book above, disagreed with that assessment and wrote:
"Shot in black and white, the film was an intimate record of the Stones on tour in Ireland. Considering how good the film was, it is a pity Andrew never carried his ambitious project any further."
Rolling Stones - Charlie Is My Darling
I'm guessing hardcore Stones fans have seen this on bootlegs or elsewhere. There's not much at Wikipedia on it. I've not watched this yet, and hope to tonight. If you want this film on DVD, you can get it from VideoBeat.

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