But the first few minutes of the film showing the Stones meeting with former President and Mrs. Clinton and their extended family (the concert was a fundraiser for the Clinton Foundation) will have most rock fans reaching for their barf bags. Yeah, I know the '60s were a long time ago, but no Stones fan wants to see the band behave like just another group of political suck-ups.
And what happened to those salty lyrics, guaranteed to offend women and all racial and ethnic groups? Gone were the offensive lines in "Brown Sugar" and "Some Girls" and the Kennedy verse in "Sympathy for the Devil." Have the bad boys gone good? Oh, Keith, say it isn't so?
Of course, Mick does drop the f-bomb and some other choice profanity -- even though the audience knows the ex-president's 12-year-old nephew and other youngsters are on hand for the show. Cursing apparently is still protected speech for the politically correct. Just watch those dicey social observations, boy.
Oh well, guess these days there's no place for a street-fighting man.
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A favorite moment: Mick is singing "Live With Me" as a playful duet with Christina Aguilera, dancing --um-- quite close, and then -- while the camera is on Keith or someone else -- the audience hears Christina shriek with surprise as Mick presumedly moves in "behind the pantry door."
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