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BY GEORGE DICKIE
EPIX’s ‘My Life as a Rolling Stone’
a revealing look at rock giants
Ronnie Wood; Keith Richards;
Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts (from left)
are featured in “My Life as a Rolling Stone”
premiering Sunday on EPIX.
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A unique angle and a lot of revealing
interviews and footage make “My Life as a
Rolling Stone” a must-see for any music fan.
Premiering Sunday, Aug. 7, on EPIX, the
four-part documentary series shines a light on
each member of The Rolling Stones through
a musical lens. So lead singer Mick Jagger,
guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood
and the late drummer Charlie Watts each get
their own hourlong episode as they reveal their
personalities and passions and share memories
of 60 years as a member of what many consider
to be one of the world’s greatest rock bands.
There is also lots of performance video,
rarely seen archival footage and interviews
with family, friends and peers, an overall mix
that producer Sam Anthony (“Jig”) thinks will
appeal to hardcore Stones fans and newbies
alike.
“I think that the thing that people forget
about bands, particularly successful bands,” he
says, “is that they’re musicians but they’re also
personalities. And the really successful bands
that we all love are generally made up of very
disparate personalities, very different types of
people in the same way as a marriage is often
made up of two very different people that
somehow make something that is greater than
the two parts. You know, a band like the Stones
who’ve been together for 60 years, that seems to
be the secret ... that they had these personalities
and the personalities were all complementary
but completely different.”
That was certainly the case with Jagger and
Richards, childhood friends in the 1950s from
the same neighborhood in Dartford, England,
who formed a lifelong bond over a shared taste
in music, particularly American blues. But
while Jagger was outgoing and comfortable
interacting with fans and media, Richards
was painfully shy, which in part drove him to
substance abuse in his younger years, as the
series notes.
Their relationship has seen its highs and
lows over the years and the series indicates
it’s never been as strong as it is currently. And
their musical sensibilities have largely remained
the same, which has led to one of the most
successful collaborative relationships in rock
history.
“However things are going,” Anthony says,
“if they can get in the same room as each other,
they can look each other in the eye and say,
‘This kind of works. We shouldn’t kill it.’ And
the other one is fairly likely to agree because
their track record is so great. And they spent a
couple of years, really, working very, very, very,
very hard to get established and then that was
it. And then they’ve been megastars ever since.
“So they have a formula and it works and it’s
a formula that they love, so that’s not too bad a
thing to have.”
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