Stones’ footage uncovered

A lost documentary of the Rolling Stones’ short Irish tour in 1965 has been uncovered, says Joe McNamee, and it makes for astonishing viewing.

IT IS January 1965 and The Rolling Stones have arrived to tour Ireland for the first time. Over the next 12 months, the first US combat troops will arrive in Vietnam, the public incineration of draft cards will soon follow in the US.

The Martin Luther King-led American Civil Rights marches in the South will meet with a savage response from white supremacists; in New York City, Malcolm X will be assassinated. Fighting between India and Pakistan will require UN intervention. Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov will become the first human to walk in space. The Beatles will release four albums in the one year, Bob Dylan will do a ‘Judas’ and go electric at the Newport Folk Festival.