Rolling Stones - Mick Vs. Keith: The Strange Case Of Jagger & Richards

Mick V Keef? Or is it; Mick & Keef?
Marriages, boyfriends and girlfriends may come and go, but at least when it comes to The Rolling Stones, band mates appear to be forever. Singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards are arguably the best creative duo in rock history and have known each other for six decades now. Sometimes they have gotten along swimmingly. And other times less so, particularly when Richards' past of drug abuse and Jagger's aspirations of a solo career increased tension among the two. The Jagger-Richards history is explored in the appropriately titled Mick vs. Keith: The Strange Case of Jagger & Richards, a look at their respective histories.

To save any confusion this is a packaged set of two previous documentaries, rel3ased a number of years ago, on the two musicians, specifically The Roaring 20s, which examines Jagger's influences and work during that period in his life (i.e. his 20s), and Keith Richards Under Review, which looks at Richards from his youth to present day on a much...

Four hours very well spent
This two disc box set provides almost four hours of very satisfying wallowing in reminiscence, criticism, adulation, and scandal.

First of all, the Rolling Stones LPs prior to Satanic Majesties' Request, as good as they were, were just warm-ups for the real flowering of the composers themselves. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Satisfaction, Little Red Rooster, and etc. were very good songs, and I have all the early slabs (in fact, the entire Stones catalogue, period; how could one do without them?), but Satanic, as much it tends to be cast into critical limbo, was where the ensemble finally caught up to itself, figuring out how to produce truly original work. Though Jagger pooh-poohs the release, the Brit crits presented in abundance here tend to dismiss his dismissals, as do I, and recognize the LP as a very good fish out of water that immediately led into the amazing Beggar's Banquet, arguably their finest hour...and there's plenty of dissent on that too.

Satanic was almost,...

OLD STUFF NEW PACKED
I was looking forward to see 2 new DVDs upon title seemed to be interesting Mick vs Keith - When i umpacked the box DVD about Keith is UNDER REVIEW which was sold as single DVD since 2007 and the one about Jagger is The Roaring 20s Glory Years back from 2011 also sold as a single DVD - both single DVDs are good so far but the package leads to think, that it is something very new - NOTHING NEW, NOT AS ADVERTISED from 2013 !!! Quite a Rip Off, quickly returned the set as i owned both DVDs already - OLD STUFF NEW PACKED - THANKS A LOT !!!

Click to Editorial Reviews