Gimme Shelter (1970 film)

Gimme Shelter is a 1970 documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of The Rolling Stones 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert. The film is named after Gimme Shelter, the lead track from the groups 1969 album Let It Bleed. The film was screened at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.

The film depicts some of the Madison Square Garden concert later featured on the 1969 live album, Get Yer YaYas Out The Rolling Stones in Concert, as well as the photography session for the cover featuring Charlie Watts and a donkey. It also shows the Stones at work in Muscle Shoals, Alabama recording Brown Sugar and Wild Horses, and footage of Ike and Tina Turner opening for the Stones at their Madison Square Garden concert, to Mick Jaggers comment, Its nice to have a chick occasionally.The Maysles brothers filmed the first concert of the tour at Madison Square Garden in New York City. After the concert, the Maysles brothers asked the Rolling Stones if they could film them on tour, and the band agreed. ........

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