The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling - Ireland 1965 (2012) - full transcript

One's brought up to think

that pop music
is a very ephemeral thing

and it lasts for nothing.

So, when we first made a record
and it got in the charts,

we thought, "Well, it's good.

We'll probably be around for a year
or maybe a year and a half,

and then it's all gonna be over."

I like the fella that plays the drums.

- Charlie.
- Charlie.

- You like him?
- Yeah.

I just took up the drums.
I can't read.



I'm not a musician of that caliber.

Maybe it's just standards
I'm looking at.

Maybe it's just an inferiority complex
you got.

Maybe I'm great after all.

And who do you like
in the group then?

- Brian Jones.
- Brian Jones.

- For what reason?
- I just like him.

Just plays it cool.

Let's face it,

the future as a Rolling Stone
is very uncertain.

My ultimate aim in life
was never to be a pop star.

I enjoy it...with reservations,

but I'm not really sort of satisfied
either artistically or personally.

- Does anybody like Bill Wyman?
- Yeah!



I like his style.

- His...?
- Style.

What do you like about Bill Wyman?

I always wanted to be a musician.
I always wanted to be in a band.

And I knew it was so impossible
and so unlikely that I would be

that I just dismissed it.

And suddenly, last year,

I remembered, you know,
after all that time,

suddenly remembered
that I'd always wanted to be

and now I was, you know.

It didn't mean a thing to me anymore.

Why are you coming to see the show?
Who are you going to see?

- Keith Richard.
- Keith Richard.

- You don't think they're dirty, do you?
- No.

No, you like 'em.

- I just like him.
- You just -- Why do you like Mick?

Because I just like him.

- Everything.
- Well, what's everything?

Everything.

What's everything?

Oh, jeez.

- I like his hair.
- Just his hair?

I like him. He's --
I just like him.

I don't know why.
He's very nice.

- I love his movements.
- What?

- Hair. Do you like his hair?
- I love his hair, yes.

You think he's sexy?

You're not the same person os stage
as you are the rest of the time.

What sort of person
do you think you are os stage?

I don't really know.

I don't really know...
what I am os stage.

It's very different because you have
to treat everybody differently.

You have to be very, very, very
egotistical 'cause that's --

I mean, you're acting.
You're doing an act for them.

It's not really you.

What do you set out to do
in your act?

Entertain people.

♪ Heart of Stone♪

Greg, close that door.

Step back.

That was great!

The Rolling Stones here in the car,

they want you to give them
a wee welcome over the radio here.

And I've got the tape recorder
going here.

How's the size and welcome
compare to the Beatles?

♪ Heart of Stone♪

- Do you play in a group?
- Yeah, The Creatures.

- The...?
- The Creatures.

- The Creatures.
- Yeah.

When did you first
grow your hair long?

- About 18 months ago.
- Why?

'Cause I like long hair.

Oh, I don't know anything
about groups at all.

Of course, if I was about --
What am I now? --

I was about 22 years younger,

I'd have a little group of me own
if I could.

There's a bit of go in me, still,
even though I am 40.

Has your daughter
got their records?

No, not really.
Only "Off the Hook".

- Well, you've heard it?
- Yeah, and "Little Red Rooster".

- Are you going to see them tonight?
- I can't, no.

- You're not?
- No.

- Why?
- Didn't get a ticket.

- Did you try?
- Yes.

What a shame.

Are you going to see
the show tonight?

- No, I'm not.
- You're not? Why not?

I just didn't have no tickets to go.

Did you see them
when they were in Ireland before?

- You did. What did you think?
- I thought they were fantastic.

- You did?
- Yes.

Is that why you're going to see them
again tonight?

Yes.

Don't put that in.

No, just sort of hold it back there,
you know?

As far back as this.

- This direction.
- Oh, I see.

- Do one more.
- Finished?

No.

- Did it work?
-It didn't work.

I used to work with David Bailey,
though“.

♪ Play with Fire♪

We want the Stones!

We want Mick!

We want the Stones!

Here they are,
The Rolling Stones!

Thank you very much.

Contact.

That's why they try to get in cars.
That's why --

Just physical contact.
Any sort of physical contact.

Touching you.

Touching your coat, your hair,

or pulling you or kissing you
or whatever it is.

Just to say, "I touched so-and-so,"
you know.

A crowd always seems
to make for violence,

because if there's a center
of a crowd,

all the people
os the periphery of the crowd

are trying to get to the middle.

All the kids in the front row
can't see a thing,

so they stand up os their seats.

So, the row behind stands up
and the row behind...

And in the end, you've got
everybody standing up,

and they still can't see,
and they start falling backwards,

and, you know,
the seats start getting broken,

and the officials
keep pushing back all the time,

and the kids are not
fighting the officials half the time.

They're trying to see, you know.

They tend to do it
at everybody's show.

I wouldn't say the Beatles
were the symbol of authority --

anti-authority --

but when the Beatles
went to Germany, for instance,

the same thing happened.

This doesn't stop this girl
getting two legs fractured.

Yeah, where did she get them
fractured, in the theater?

Yeah, in the theater.

Well...

♪ Try and set yourself free♪

♪ Know it's hard to do...♪

♪ Give you what you don't get now♪

I've got another...
I had another time for this.

Yeah.

Otherwise, the words
we're going to duplicate.

- I had "sitting os a fence" os this one.
-"Sitting os a Fence"?

♪ Oh, yes, I'm sitting os a fence♪

It's very hard to know where
to put the title. It's got a little...

That's easy. That's good.
That's all right.

But I just wanted to make it
like he was sitting os a fence

and could not make up his mind
between one girl and the other.

And he couldn't stand
sitting os the fence

'cause it was getting very painful.

All right?

♪ You know, it's pretty plain to see♪

♪ Was he really having fun?♪

♪ Oh, yeah, now...♪

♪ I'm just sitting os a fence♪

♪ Baby, I never...♪

That's got to rhyme it, see.

That last line's got to rhyme
with the first two.

Worked that out in...

Worked that out
in Clearwater, Florida.

But it doesn't there,
and it still sounds all right.

No, but it's better if it does
'cause I wrote...

Like this?

♪ I'm just sittin' os a fence♪

♪ You can say I got no sense♪

♪ But, baby, I had to go♪

♪ Baby, I had to go♪

♪ And I'm sitting os a fence♪

That just sort of rounds it off.
It doesn't sound wrong, but --

Actually, it wouldn't
if you put the title over that.

You know, it sort of cut --
You know, it sort of rounds it off.

It doesn't sound wrong
if it doesn't rhyme.

That was a quick one, Andrew.

Really.

♪ I,I,I ♪

Want.

♪ Want ♪

♪ I want you back again♪

III'

♪ Want your love♪

♪ Again♪

♪ I know you find it hard♪

♪ To reason with me♪

♪ But this time is different♪

♪ Darling, you'll see♪

♪ You got to tell me
you're coming back to me♪

♪ You got to --
You got to tell♪

♪ Back to me♪

♪ You got to tell me
you're coming back to me♪

♪ You got to tell me
you're coming back to me, baby♪

♪ Yeah♪

♪ You ♪

♪ Walked out os me before♪

♪ I tried to tell you♪

♪ But you♪

♪ Didn't want to know♪

♪ This time you're different♪

♪ You're♪

♪ You're determined to go♪

♪ And you got to tell♪

♪ You got to tell me
you're coming back home, baby♪

♪ Tell me you're coming
back to me ♪

♪ I've got a hole in my heart, baby♪

♪ Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah♪

♪ You got to tell me
you're coming back home♪

♪ That's all right♪

♪ Come os♪

♪ Come os, baby, yeah, yeah♪

♪ It's all right♪

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah♪

♪ Falling♪

♪ Oh, I am falling♪

♪ And she keeps calling♪

♪ Me back again♪

♪ Oh, I need your loving♪

♪ Guess you know it's true♪

♪ Oh, I need your love, babe♪

♪ Guess you know it's true♪

♪ Who? Hold me♪

♪ Love me♪

♪ Hold me ♪

Popular music
wasn't a real thing at all.

It was very, very romantic.

Not only romantic in so far

as every song's
about boy-girl relationships --

which is romantic in one sense.

But every song was just like --

just like romantic lyrics.

Just all about things
that don't really happen

or don't really happen all the time.

If you listen to all popular songs
10 years ago,

very few of them
actually mean anything

or have any relation
to what people are doing.

They don't --
Songs didn't have any relation

to what people
actually spend their lives doing,

like getting up, washing,
going to work, coming back,

and feeling very screwed up
about certain things.

They were just about being unhappy
'cause your girl had left you

or being very happy
because you just met somebody.

That's all they were ever about.

The moon in June,
and the sky's blue, and I love you.

Sea is os the right,
and the land is os the left.

What do you think
of the Rolling Stones?

That's a funny question
to ask a classical-music fan.

- Do you like classical music?
- Aye, John McCormack.

- Who?
- John McCormack.

Ah, he's an Irishman.

Mario Lanza.

She'll be shocked when the missus
hears tell that you were here.

- Oh, she likes them?
- She does.

That's where it falls apart.

She's modern, and I'm ancient.

♪ On the baby's knuckle,
os the baby's knee♪

♪ Where will the baby's dimple be?♪

Is that Max Bygraves?

- No, Billy Cotton.
- Oh, Billy -- Max Bygraves.

♪ You need hands♪

♪ By the sea♪

Oh!

Only last week -- Ken Dodd.

And here he is,
our top-of-the-bill star,

someone you've been waiting for --
Ken Dodd!

On what?

- Thank you, now.
- It's all right.

The thing is, with some of these,

I imagine people living in them,
you know.

Well, you see,
I love this sort of thing.

But I can't imagine living in this.

Can I have a piece of --
Can I have another sugar, please?

Take some more tea.

Another tea for four.
Thank you.

♪ We're riding
this rock 'n' roll train!♪

This is a commercial.

Nice tea.

Yes, it's Lipton.

Don't you think
it's nice tea, Keith?

I think it's lovely tea.
Where did you get it?

Super tea.

John Lennon says
one shouldn't drink it.

♪ Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner♪

♪ Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner♪

♪ Wherever I go♪

♪ Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner♪

♪ That I love London town♪

Do you want any bread with it?

No, no, no.
Got any fruit?

Just get biscuits. That's all they want.
That's all they want.

Do they have light cheese
or anything, have you?

Just some nice biscuits.

We're not at the Lotus House, Hank.

Okay, thank you very much.

16 teas.
Lots of sugar. We all take sugar.

Oh, look at that!

- Glyn. Look at that.
- Great.

On the other side now, look...

Have you got this?

Look at this.

Look. Look behind you.

We're floating.

Our sort of success
is a first-class ticket

to a lot of other things.

On the other hand,
there's not much physical freedom.

We have to choose very carefully
where we go,

where we socialize,
where we go for holidays,

because of our peculiar
sort of success.

I can afford, shall we say,
to do exactly what I want.

Do you have much time
to do the things you want to do?

No. No, not really.

But, then again, I haven't got
much time to do what I want.

That's what I just said.

Yeah.

Up now, boys. Let's go.
Quick. Come os, now.

Hop in.

- Can I get in with you?
- Get in, get in.

Doesn't matter.

Take 'em in to the hotel...

Don't shove that thing at me.

That's Percy Thrower's
bird-watching equipment.

And here is the lesser
spotted nighthawk.

And here we are os Netherwick.

And as you can see,
there's a colony.

A colony
of lesser spotted Gredgewicks.

And I think they are
in the mating season.

Now, let me have a look.

Oh, yes, and here he comes,
the lesser spotted Nedgewick,

and you see...

He's tottering up to the female
lesser spotted Nedgewick.

And, uh, yes, and it looks like
he's trying to mate.

Notice the fluttering
of the wings here. Yes.

As my father once told me

when he was touring
in the south pole...

In the last two or three years,
young people have been --

this especially applies to America --

instead of just carrying os the way
that their parents told them to,

they've started a big thing
where they're anti-war

and they love everybody

and their sexual lives
have become freer.

The kids are looking
for something else,

some different moral value,

because they know
they're gonna get all the things

that were thought impossible
50 years ago.

And the whole sort of basis of society
and values which were accepted

could be changed,

but it's up to them to carry os
those ideals that they had

instead of just falling
into the same old routine

their parents have fallen into.

So it's not until the people of 21 now
reach the age of 75.

Those kids actually
have to be grandfathers

before the whole thing is changed.

♪ (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction♪

We want Mick!

We want the Stones!

I mean, just because
you work together,

you work together a lot,
you see each other a lot of the time,

people expect when you go out,
like we go shopping or something,

they expect to see five of you.

They always say,
"Where are the others?"

Has there ever been a time
in the crowds

and getting into theaters
and away from them

that you've really had the wind
up your sails os occasion,

that you really were going to be
cut off from, you know,

get caught in the crowd, virtually?

- Last night was bad.
- Last night's a good example.

Was last night
your worst experience?

No, no, no, no.

But it was pretty bad

'cause we all got pulled down
at one stage or another.

What was your worst?

I think probably Long Beach.
Long Beach, California.

There were about 5,000 people
around the car.

The roof of the car was pushed in.

There were police everywhere, there were
about two policemen injured,

and all sorts of dogs,
and the car was wrecked.

And we just about --
We had a helicopter waiting for us

to take us to a TV show,

and we just about got away in time.

That was very dangerous.

We knocked a policeman
off his bike.

- That was great!
- Broke his leg or something.

Yeah, he was very cool, wasn't he?
He was very cool os his bike.

- Until we ran into him.
- Great, with guns flying everywhere.

How many times have you done that
with your coat?

About 50, I suppose.

You do it very well yourself.

You know, this is quite --
You do it as if it just occurred to you.

You know, it's very well done.

How much of your act is acting?

Acting?

Well, l suppose
really all of it's acting, you know.

There's a difference between acting
and sort of get--

You sort of have to define acting.

I mean, you could say
that people in a club dancing

or people in a dance hall dancing,

you could ask, "Are they acting?"
'Cause they are.

There's a difference between acting
and not enjoying it

and acting and just doing it
the way you want to do.

It's like getting into a part.

Say you're doing a play.

You just act it
or really you get inside it.

The most successful entertainers

have always been
the most egotistical ones onstage.

They might not be
as egotistical as they are offstage,

but all their ego
is got rid of onstage.

What sort of person do you think
you are off the stage?

About half as egotistical.

What's that, G?

No, A.

♪ I just want to be your salty dog♪

♪ If I can't be your salty dog,
I won't be your man at all ♪

♪ I just want to be your salty dog♪

♪ Salty dog, salty dog,
I don't want to be your man at all♪

♪ I just want to be your salty dog♪

♪ I just want to be your salty dog♪

Three pounds ten, please.

Come os, Bill.

We want Mick!

We want Mick!

Here they are,
The Rolling Stones!

Did you enjoy it?

No, I think the screaming
was a little bit much.

The screaming was too much.

On the next house,
we'll turn the screaming down.

But did you enjoy
the overall effect of it?

On the whole,
they're quite a good effect.

It's the people themselves,
I think,

cause any immoral effect,
it turns out.

It's nothing to do with the Stones
themselves as far as I'm concerned.

But the Stones themselves
I think are good artists.

Better that they got
all their high spirits

out at the cinema
watching an act.

As long as they don't damage
the cinema or the Stones.

Right. I'll second that.

Onstage, I suppose
there's a sexual thing

between the audience
and the group.

As far as lyrics go,

sex doesn't play as important part
as is generally believed.

If you weren't, then, a music maker,
what would you like to be?

Design.

Design what?

A designer, 'cause I was one.

I don't know,
just a graphic designer.

Well, I'm very interested
in making a film.

I'm not doing it
for any commercial gain at all.

I'm just doing it 'cause
I feel it's something I want to do.

What's your ambition now?

To be a musician.

I'm not a musician.
I just play in a band, you know.

You know, I used to think, "Well,
I have to go back to college then."

I mean, that was what I thought.
But it hasn't worked out like that.

And it hasn't worked like that
for lots and lots of people.

All those groups and people

that started off
when we were starting off

are all still going,
all still working.

I feel like Robert Browning.

Robert Browning!

That sort of early Jewish poet.

What are you, like Keats?

Right!

Yeah, like Keats.
Keats, baby.

Do you like Keats?

No, actually,
I was thinking of Shelley.

"I wandered lonely as a cloud."

That was Wordsworth.

"I wandered lonely as a cloud."

Don't call me a berk.

Here he is, a svengali.

Svengali'in away
with his Irish Railways hat os.

What svengali
is he thinking up now, folks?

Only time can tell.

Oh, yeah, let's have some Presley.

♪ Santa, bring my baby
back to me ♪

♪ Santa, bring my baby
back to me ♪

♪ Oh, Santa, hear my plea♪

♪ Santa, bring my baby
back to me ♪

♪ Santa, bring my baby
back to me, oh ♪

Oh, yeah.

♪ On Blueberry Hill♪

♪ On Blueberry Hill♪

♪ Well, baby♪

Bit late.

- ♪ The wind in... I
- No, you didn't get it.

♪ ...the willow played♪

Great song.

♪ Love's sweet melody♪

♪ But all of those vows we made♪

♪ Were never to be♪

Like, great, man.

Thank you.

This number's been like...

This number's been to me

like maybe your father and mother
were to you.

As you know, my mother and father
died in my early years and...

We always remember mom and pop,
and we'd like to send --

When I was a little boy
of 5 years old --

Made it possible
for me to be here tonight.

I only have to thank you.

My musical arranger and director...

I'd like to introduce you
to my close friend,

personal companion, procurer,
and pianist --

- Johnny Mathis.
- Thank you.

A round of applause.

Thank you.

Yeah, well, you know...

- You know...
-...sometimes a man --

What's that thing?

- ♪ If you... ♪
-♪ If you ♪

♪ ...find your sweetheart
in the arms of -- ♪

What's that one?

♪ Are you lonesome tonight?♪

Who do you think you are,
Mick Jagger?

Yes, and here he is, entertaining

the sick children's hospital
in Northern Ireland,

and we think he could
really be something, so...

♪ Why must I be
a teenager in love?♪

There's something
subconsciously supernatural,

which I can't tangibly put down.

I can't contemplate and meditate
and premeditate and titillate

at the same time.

Yeah.

I wish this was all os film, man.
It'd be great.

♪ Going Home♪

It makes you wonder

whether there's an easier way
of earning a living, you know.

But we don't do it
for earning a living.

♪ Going Home♪

Yes, I've never thought
very far ahead at all.

I've always been a little apprehensive
about the future.

♪ Going Home♪

When I try and make a judgment

as to what's gonna happen
in the next year,

I'm always wrong.

I always think,
"Oh, well, this time next year

we won't be able to do that

'cause we'll have to do
something else."

And we do do something different,
but it's never as different as I think.

What I mean is, things don't move
as fast as you think they are.

♪ Going Home♪

You see, this is where maybe I differ
from the rest, the fact that...

that when I'm at home,
I pick a book up, I play a record.

You know.

And I have a wife,
and that makes it a bit sort of...

...cozy in a way, I suppose,
but I like it.

I'm happier at home.
I'm happiest at home.

♪ I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys♪

We remembered the words.

What do you think
the secret of your success is?

There isn't any secret.

It's all very obvious.