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The Stones October '66 appearance on Ready Steady Go! must have been one of the very last episodes, or maybe the last? It was such a great show. Why did the production stop?

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There weren't any singles drawn from Their Satanic Majesties Request in UK. In the UK atleast those abum track promos were to promote the album.

Were they shown in the USA as promotions for the 2000 Light Years From Home/She's A Rainbow single there?

Some of the photos you use for October 1966 RSG are from the earlier show in May.

As far as I know, or remember, there were no Rolling Stones promo films shown in the United States at all, until Angie/Dancing With Mr. D./Silvertrain in 1973 on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. Which means they made no appearances on American Television between January '67 (Ed Sullivan - Ruby Tuesday/Let's Spend the Night Together) and November '69 (Ed Sullivan - HTW/GS/Love in Vain), a period of almost three years. And again no TV/film promotion at all for Sticky Fingers (in the States), or Exile, which means another almost 4 year drought.

11th August: US TV (ABC) 'Shindig!. Incl.
- Down The Road Apiece (Don Raye) -promofilm
- Oh Baby (Barbara Lynn Ozen) -promofilm
Also the version of Satisfaction that's "bleeped" is a promofilm

I've also realized there was of course the 1972 Dick Cavett Show appearance with interviews and some live footage. I guess I forgot about it because I missed it when it was on and had only heard about it back then. And they've never released it was a DVD like they have other rock star appearances on Cavett.

I bought a 3 dvd set of Dick Cavett called Rock Icons. The Stones '72 is put on there as a afterthought. I think it's about half of the show with a new boring interview with Dick about the stones. I wonder why he didn't just release the whole show.






Here's a note that someone wrote on Amazon about the dvd set:

-- GOOD NEWS:

In the original telecast of the Rolling Stones segment, Cavett interviewed Mick Jagger backstage moments before he was about to perform. The occasion: one of the Stones' famed Madison Square Garden shows on their 1972 US tour. Mick excuses himself to walk onstage, and the cameras follow -- way cool.

Jagger dances out, and the Stones tear into a sledgehammer version of Brown Sugar. It's one of the few times in the band's patchy concert film history cameras manage to perfectly capture the feeling of seeing them live back then. You *are* there -- and it's wonderful.

The original Cavett footage also includes the concert closer, Street Fighting Man. The Stones were on fire this night. They were a year away from what many consider their performing peak, the 1973 European tour. Second guitarist Mick Taylor propelled them to an unprecedented level of intensity.

-- BAD NEWS:

The Stones footage was a late addition to this set, delaying its originally scheduled release date. Previously, permission had been denied by the band. For reasons unknown, Jagger relented at the last minute. But with a caveat -- the DVD could only feature two minutes of each of the Stones' two songs.

-- WHY?

One might guess, concern about bootlegging. But the Rolling Stones would take a paltry financial hit if copies a 32-year old performance of two songs hit the black market. No. The more likely suspect is ego.

Jagger has been scrupulously blocking the release -- on either CD or DVD -- of (additional) Mick Taylor-era live material. Mick admitted years back in a lengthy interview with Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner that a lot of people consider the Taylor years the band's finest incarnation. And he sidestepped the question of whether he concurred.

Mick: We understand you don't need a lot of crap about how today's Rolling Stones don't compare to the early '70s. And we appreciate that as their leader, you need to take the feelings of the current line-up into consideration. Really, we do.

But you've been suppressing live Taylor recordings and footage for four decades now -- nearly half a century. How about at long last giving us a break? There's the unreleased Decca live album from 1972. Ladies & Gentlemen on DVD. CS Blues. Film and audio footage from the 1971 UK tour. And the greatest Stones trove of all: superb recordings of your legendary 1973 European tour.

In the meantime, for Stones diehards, this Cavett collection will have to suffice. Let's hope an enthusiastic appreciation of them sends Sir Mick a message he can't ignore -- Let It Loose.