From Stones in Exile, a documentary about the making of the Rolling Stones' classic album Exile on Main Street. Recorded in the dank, musty basement of Nellcôte, a mansion Keith had rented in the South of France.
Keith, Mick, and Charlie discuss their love for black American music. The clips ends with Keith and Mick sitting around Nellcôte strumming guitar and singing the blues. So effortless and so, so good.
Interviewer: It's been said the Rolling Stones gave black music back to Americans. What are the first black musicians that turned you on to black music?
Keith: Chuck Berry, Little Richard. I guess Little Richard was the first one I heard that really knocked me out. Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Slim Harpo... the list gets endless. I guess the more you got into black music the more you followed it back to where it come from. So eventually you're listening to Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson, etc. Everybody goes through it.
Charlie: To me even now American players and singers always the best. It is one of those things you have going. It is for me... but then you know I'm a black American freak. 'Cause that's the music I like, primarily. That's really the music I love.
Mick: It was a super eclectic band. I was brought up in the '50s, you know. I liked pop music. I didn't just like blues. I love blues but, you know, I love Elvis. But I loved crap pop music. I like acoustic blues music, country music, we like everything. Plus you've got all these other people. And you're kind of throwing this whole mishmash in.
[Keith and Mick strumming guitar at Nellcôte]
I don't want you when you have
Every man around this town.
You going to lose your reputation, baby.
Going with every man around this town.