Sympathy For The Devil [4K Clip] - In the Beginning | ABKCO

The 4K restoration of Sympathy For The Devil on DVD, Blu-ray and on digital services:

One of the landmark new wave films of the late '60s, directed by the celebrated Jean-Luc Godard, Sympathy for the Devil alternates between reflections on contemporary politics and social issues of the late 1960s as well as giving the audience an unprecedented view of The Rolling Stones creative process in the recording studio working on "Sympathy For The Devil," which would go on to become one of the band's defining tracks.

The Rolling Stones original line-up of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman were joined by Nicky Hopkins, Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg and James Fox in the landmark session that took place at Olympic Sound Studios in London in June 1968.

The new edition of Godard's Sympathy For The Devil is a 4K restoration of the film from the original 35mm camera negative that was initially released in 1969. The color grading has been supervised by the original cinematographer, Tony Richmond BSC, ASC. Richmond holds dozens of credits as cinematographer including Let it Be, and Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now for which he won BAFTA's Best Cinematography award in 1973.

Sympathy For The Devil 50th Anniversary 4K Edition (Film Clip: In the Beginning) | ABKCO Films

[christopherriley]

As Bill Wyman is reported to have said “ I’ve been in the band for 30 years, 13 years playing and 17 years sitting around waiting to play” That is quite clearly seen in this clip!! Mr. R. 😀🎶

[tonyc]

This is amazing. Almost like they started trying to make a simple Bob Dylan song, but made it just another legendary Stones song

[greggfiller]

Never fully realized the Dylan influence on Jagger’s singing until hearing Mick sing the refrain in this video.

[koishooter]

The whole scene is amazing because we see the song come to life. If you didn't know of the outcome, you'd think they have a real dog on their hands, and then it slowly comes into being in front of our eyes. Probably the most amazing docu scenes in rock history.

[leokimvideo]

Bill, making sure he's not getting too close to the magic

[henryd]

Bill excluding himself while wearing the most kick ass outfit ever is a mood

[Biboche]

Whoever had this and decided to share with all of us, thank you dearly. We love and appreciate it

[Dan-zqwt]

Keith Richards was just so effortlessly cool.

[skummelkatt]

The OG Stones will always be something special. Brian Jones - the best example of winners write history. Mick and Keith are as talented as they are ruthless.

[ConnorJMC]

I thought this was from a movie wow the quality is insane

[apolloptx]

Mick's inflection here is pure Dylan!

[bst]

With a little more practice these guys might have really made it.

[williardbillmore]

SFTD was languishing and almost put on the shelf. It just wasn't coming together. Then suddenly with a stroke of genius, Keith got the idea to bring in the Brazilian drums and change the tempo and rhythm to a samba. Almost immediately everything came alive and fell into place.
Just another day at the office for Mr. Richards, true musical genius.

[virginiaviola]

I’m so glad to see that Brian is being written back into Stones history.

[joegiuffrida]

Can see the very clear inspiration of Bob Dylan's music on this song. In fact, for a moment there, I thought Bob Dylan was singing the lyrics.

[TenThumbsProductions]

Some people, like me, just can’t help but love this time period. It would’ve been a great time to be alive for some many reasons (also some other reasons that wouldn’t have been so great)

[speed_iam_speed]

I refuse to believe this was filmed any later than tomorrow.

[erepsekahs]

The pure genius of the chords combined with the powerful, driving, presentation of the brilliant lyrics are almost palpable. It is easy to see how and why The Stones came to dominate this style of music at the time, and even now, years later.

[sundaynightdrunk]

This is incredible. You basically have Mick Jagger doing Bob Dylan while trying to figure out a song that ended up to be a Rolling Stones classic. I'm really glad the final recording was more Mick than Dylan.

[inspectorluv]

every piece of musical equipment in that room is probably worth a mint now