The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
Rock and Roll Circus is an album by the Rolling Stones, taken on 10 and 11 December 1968. The album and accompanying film footage were released in 1996.
In addition to the Rolling Stones and other artists appeared at the Circus.
The album
In 1968 the Rolling Stones were planning the recording of a television specials. The event was to commemorate a circus performance, so they built a TV studio in North London to accordingly. Performers, clowns, circus animals and fellow musicians were hired to produce an authentic as possible circus feeling. Director in this spectacle was conducted by Michael Lindsay - Hogg.
The Stones were joined by the young and relatively unknown band Jethro Tull, here as a guitarist Tony Iommi, who one year later, the band Black Sabbath founded, The Who, the blues musician Taj Mahal, Mick Jagger's girlfriend Marianne Faithfull, the violinist Ivry Gitlis, Yoko Ono and the existing only for this performance band The Dirty Mac. This consisted of John Lennon of the Beatles as a singer and guitarist, Eric Clapton of Cream as a guitarist, Stones guitarist Keith Richards on bass and Mitch Mitchell of The Jimi Hendrix Experience on drums. The name Dirty Mac refers to a reference John Lennon on the band Fleetwood Mac.
Every new artist was announced ( as at the circus ) or a small orchestra played a prelude. The golden tickets were sold through the Rolling Stones Fan Club and the NME ( New Musical Express). The album was released in 1996 but only 28 years late, as the Stones with the quality of her performance were dissatisfied. The rights to film and music, however, are at their old record label Decca Records.