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PERFORMANCE 1970
U.K. film. Excellent quality. Mick Jagger plays "Turner" and Anita Pallenberg plays "Pherber" in this distinctly twisted film! Performance stretches the concept of "bohemian" to include some considerably dark, violent and sexually creepy stuff. Pherber says of Turner, "He's a male-female, man."

Chas (James Fox) is an East London gangster who works for Harry Flowers and his associates. Chas is a sadist who enjoys his work. Outside of work Chas has his own agenda that goes beyond sadism. Things get complicated and Chas needs to hide from Harry so he takes refuge in a Notting Hill hippie flat owned by a man named Turner, who lives there with two female companions named Pherber and Lucy.

Chas sees their lifestyle as bohemian free love, which is outside of his understanding. Turner is an ex-rock musician who has lost his "demon" and thus his desire to perform. Chas gets caught up in Turner's lifestyle, which includes magic mushrooms—and Turner is working on his own agenda, spending time with Chas.

You see, Chas has Turner's demon, and Turner knows it, so begins the psychological morphing of Turner becoming Chas! It's bizarre, but it was 1968 and boundaries were wide open. Jagger sings, "Memo from Turner."

Notes of interest:
The principle photography for Performance began on Monday, July 26, 1968. The majority of the audience walked out of the first screening and the film was delayed for two years while it was re-edited three times. At a test screening in Santa Monica, CA in March 1970, one executive's wife vomited with shock in response to the film and paying customers had to be offered their money back.

Keith Richards was angry about the sex scenes between his girlfriend Anita Pallenberg and Jagger and refused to play while the Stones recorded "Memo from Turner" for the soundtrack. Ry Cooder filled in, giving the song its signature slide guitar. Some of the 16mm footage of sex scenes were so explicit that the film processing lab refused to develop it, referring to obscenity laws.

James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton, Ann Sidney, John Bindon, Stanley Meadows, Allan Cuthbertson, Anthony Morton, Johnny Shannon, Anthony Valentine, Kenneth Colley, John Sterland, Laraine Wickens.

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ROLLING STONES GATHER MOSS 1964
U.K. newsreel. The Rolling Stones walk along the side of a road, try to hitch hike but are ignored by passing cars. Large sign advertises, "The Rolling Stones" with crowds arriving for a concert. Shots of the Stones being interviewed and photographed. They clown around for the camera. Mass of screaming, waving and cheering young people.

SWINGING BRITAIN 1967
U.K. newsreel. Quintessential swinging sixties footage. Portobello Road, Carnaby Street, Kings Road. Hippies in Trafalgar Square with flowers. Yoko Ono looking at mathematical equations in a notebook. Mary Quant. Lots of fashions. Psychedelic group and artwork. Much more! br>

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