A 1968 event put together by The Rolling Stones. The film is comprised of two concerts on a circus stage and included such acts as The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and Jethro Tull. John Lennon and his fiancee Yoko Ono performed as part of a supergroup called The Dirty Mac, along with Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, and Keith Richards.
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*Cello, cello, cello, cello* *cello, cello, cello, cello…* the one-off Yer Blues performance by the wish of a group that is The Dirty Mac, Jethro Tull absolutely murdering Song For Jeffery, Taj Mahal with an unreal performance of one of my favourite songs of all time Ain’t That A Lot Of Love, the Stones with an unreal performance of You Can’t Always Get What You Want backed by an even more unreal ensemble… …all of this is somehow blown out the water by The Who, at their very very best, absolutely tearing up the stage with A Quick One (While He’s Away), which will forever be, in my eyes, the greatest rock performance of all time. So good that The Rolling Stones couldn’t release this till decades after the fact because they got blown off their own stage. A supergroup of John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Hendrix’s Mitch Mitchell becomes an after-thought in this show because of how absurdly good that The Who performance is. Truly the best to ever do it.