The Rolling Stones

• Cert:
• Cat.no: GVD 012
• Running time: 53 minutes
• Year: 1969
• Pressing: 2000
• Region(s): 2 (UK PAL)
• Chapters: 8
• Sound: Mono
• Languages: English
• Subtitles: None
• Fullscreen: 4:3
• 16:9-enhanced: No
• Macrovision: Yes
• Disc Format: DVD 5
• Price: £19.99
• Extras: None

  Producer/Directors :

  Jo Durden-Smith and Leslie Woodhead

The Stones in the Parkis a Granada TV programme about a concert recorded in Hyde Park, London,on July 5th 1969, some two days after the death of guitarist Brian Jones.

There’s no doubting the quality of the Stones’ material over the years butthe problem I have with almost all home video/DVD releases of concerts is thatyou never get to see the complete work. What we have here is a selection oflive songs, occasionally interspersed with comments and chat from the band -and annoyingly slap-bang in the middle of a track at times -which was made for an hour-long TV show once adverts had been slotted in.

There are just eight songs with some classic tunes such as Sympathy for theDevil, Honky Tonk Woman and I’m Free, which was later covered bythe Soup Dragons in July 1990 making No.5, but any fans that areconsidering buying this will already have the albums and at least one ‘Best Of’compilation, so it’s one for the die-hard collectors who must have everythingever to do with the band. However, even they might have a bit of troublewanting to stump up an entire twenty notes for this presentation.The content score only gets 2/5 since, while I do like their music, there’sjust not nearly enough of it.

For the Stones tracks included here that were actually released as singles,since there’s too many releases to mention otherwise,their chart positions are as follows :