Gimme Shelter is a movie about one
of my favourite bands The Rolling Stones and their concert tour in 1969.
That tour was their first tour after a long break.
The
first frames of the film show the drummer Charlie Watts and the singer
Mick Jagger. Then the cameras move to New York. The Stones play a
brilliant version of the big hit “Jumping Jack Flash”. Then they have a
concert in San Francisco. There are more than 300 000 young people
there. Everybody tries to look happy and have a good fun but a fight
arises. The “order” is maintained by a security group which is in fact a
gang called Hell’s Angles. The Stones play their famous songs “Under My
Thumb”, “Satisfaction”, and so on but the people keep fighting. Mick
tells people to calm down but there is no police to maintain the real
order. Hell’s Angels are actually gangsters who beat everyone up.
Suddenly, a young man walks up on the stage with a gun in his hands. A
few seconds later Hell’s Angles surround the young man and start
punching him. One of them stabs the man in the neck with a knife and he
dies. When the Stones play their last song, men and girls cry. It is a
very sad scene…
I
like this documentary because it is about rock ’n’ roll and because it
shows how concerts can end disastrously if the security isn’t on a level
it should be on. It is also about one of my favourite stars- the
Rolling Stones.
By Nikola Kecić VIII4
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