My top fave Stones song. Also the only time I have ever thought Mick was sexy as a man, his drag wasn't bad either. I think I also know where Nick Cave got his look.
@elleng222 Yeah. Soundtrack from Performance should still be available. Other cuts include the Last Poets etc but Memo From Turner is the shit. Amazing song that totally brings back the strange druggy late 60's to me every time
@orgasmicide2 - I'm not sure what an intellectual really is, at this point -- maybe I'm a pseudo-intellectual, I don't know or care -- I really don't care what others think of me -- one of the benefits of having a long life and broad experience.
There are a lot of movies -- just like other works of art -- that I don't 'get' on first exposure. The good ones reveal themselves in time. The lame ones are usually a one-bang affair. Life's too short for superficial crap.
Not every movie is for a mass audience. This movie is most definitely not. Just like some movies by folks like Bunuel, Fellini, Kurosawa, Huston, Kubrick, the Coens... Some folks like vanilla. Some like chocolate.
@orgasmicide2 In movie terms, it's probably better to be pretentious rather than vacuous (a fact lost on the makers of most of the films showing in the multiplexes, unfortunately...)
Performance is a brilliant movie. But, let's face it. It's not for most folks. Most folks need things prechewed for them.
Nicolas Roeg and Don Cammell were two of the most interesting filmmakers around back then. And it was a time when there were a lot of interesting directors working at the fringe of the mainstream.
I don't get it. I'm a huge Stones fan, huge Mick fan and just never got this. What the hell is so great about this song....and this video. From a hetrosexual standpoint...well...hate to say this but its kind of fucked up.
@dannyd1572 - Not sure what you don't 'get', really. This track fits the tone of the movie perfectly, and blows most of the Stones output from the last 30 years out of the water. Plus, from ANY standpoint (never mind a heterosexual one...?..), Mick Jagger has camped it up beyond belief for his whole career, and gloriously so. That he is surrounded by half-naked, middle aged gangsters just makes him look a little more macho than usual, that's all.
@edula666 Surrounded by naked gangsters makes you macho? Errr ummm don't know about that one. This song the best output from the last 30 years??? Gotta disagree with you. Stones have had some good stuff come out in 30 years. Granted my fav. stones period is from 69-74 but that's a whole other argument.
@edula666 - It's kinda silly to be a Mick fan and worrying about your "manliness". The guy was in eyeliner and lipstick for the first half the of the 70's, for fucksakes.
@dannyd1572 - Check out the movie it's sliced out of. It'll make a *lot* more sense then. But -- if you're a real mainsteam kind of guy -- it might not be for you. If you do check out the movie, keep in mind Jagger doesn't show up in it for a half hour or so. And, for sure, this is not a movie for folks who love Michael Bay blockbusters. By a million miles. But, if you see the movie, this excerpt will make a *lot* more sense.
@dannyd1572 Number 1, the guy who wrote the script was a looney. Number 2, the story was supposed to address the issue of Machismo and the Masculine/Feminine duality. The mob boss Harry Flowers in this film is a ruthless gangster, but also Gay. The film, like real life (it asserts) is filled with contradictions.
This scene is a tribute to all the the hipsters, jesters, tramps, killers, muggers, dealers, gangsters, corrupt politicians & government officials, pimps, to all who comprise the underworld - a strange world for the common citizen, yet very colorful and savage.
@broadband0118 Wrong. This is Jagger with Ry Cooder. The Stones' version wasn't in the movie. It was on one of their albums. Metamorphasis I think. However, this is not the Stones.
superb! so much ahead of time this would have to be viewed as excellent today. During an art show in Florida for Ronnie Wood I wore a nice business suit blazer and across the back in plain black stitching was embroidered " Come now gentleman, your love is all I crave. You'll still be in the circus when I'm laughing, laughing in my grave". A woman at the show asked me where I bought it as she wanted to get 1 for her husband. She looked surprised when I told her I had it made.
i remember when Performance first came out ,got to see it on the big screen ,Memo From Turner allways comes over as a angry rant and that worked for me then and still works for me now , i'm 56 yrs old .Cheers for putting it on .
@chriskoob It was supposed to be reflecting the somewhat homosexual and dominant nature of the London 1960s gangsters. in this scene, Turner takes the position as the boss to demonstrate his control over Chas.
This is song is from the 1968 movie, 'Performance '- Jagger as one of the lead actors. The movie is out of control - - today, akin to a Quentin Tarantino style of movie. Great song from a legend rock star, Mick Jagger.
PROPS TO THE MOVIE, PERFORMANCE 1970, THIS SONG, JAGGER/THE STONES, THE EARLY 70s, THE LAST POETS, AND TO YOU FOR POSTING THIS SONG! ONLY MICK COULD SAY "FAGGY" AND NOT (NOT) SOUND LIKE A HOMOPHOBE. DAVEDJ
hey, 8ssp, 12 hours ago, maybe this film does not stand up as well today, but I saw it when it was first out, and this was an astounding, state of the art film at the time. Still great to look at, after all these years, and so yes, I disagree with you. At least we agree about the song, though
The film - along with DONT LOOK NOW - that set me on a journey in filmmaking and music and philosphy. Thanks for posting this classic moment
Did you know that Warners threatened to sue Roeg and Cammel for directorial incompetence? They didn't understand a lick of the film--true to Hollywood.
I "edge-numbered" PERFORMANCE using an Ernest F. Moy numbering machine. The film was edited at Zenith Films, 53 Kensington Gardens Square.Ah... memories.
Memo From Turner (longer version) - Mick Jagger - 1970 - "From the cult 1970 movie 'Performance' sound track. I spend a long time finding the LP soundtrack from this movie." - Singles Collection: The London Years (Abkco Disc 3)-1989. NOTE: The soundtrack turned me on the the "Grandfathers of Rap" band The Last Poets.
@KellyGreen5555 comparing him to brad pitt ? obviously no comparison. however more beautiful and dangerous, i must respectfully dis-agree; not hating on ya but thanx 4 posting/ this is only mick's best highlight EVA !!!
@ralphcraddock Indeed. Sadly, it is missing on the DVD, probably because the DVD uses the stereo track from the album mix of "Memo". But the DVD is well worth getting. An amazing film on many levels.
@angel4everable : Yeah William and I are both St. Louisians but we had several mutual friends , in New York . I found his live , monotone , readings rather dreary but I did read his works and watched several bios on him .
@SAYZ I amazed and envious that you got to see and hear Bill W. Think how much he contributed to rock phraseology, from "heavy metal" to "Steely Dan".
@Dude2012iffy Are you in all sincerity stating that before the release of this film noone has ever filmed a groupsexscene before? Porn must have been real dull before Goddard, like in the sixties.
@Sita570 perhaps I should have been more clear in that from what I have read that this was released to the general audience in regular movie theaters. In no way was I including porn shops or theaters!
@Dude2012iffy ; Actually there is full body , nude scene of him in bed . It was mysteriously lost , when the film was first shown but it turned up at a film festival nd has been added back in the full version .
Everyone was a bit disappointed when the " MICK DICK " was finally revealed ! LOL !
Many performers have talked , publicly , about Mick's tendency to stuff a sock in his pants !
Went to see this on acid, I think, therefore I was! Also saw A Clockwork Orange and 'If' about the same time, within an hour or two, and they were good too, but I had to eat a whole bag of acid. Oh wait, I had a whole bag of acid I ate like M&M's. Nevermind.... I really was there, somewhere...
Mick singing whilst acting is unbelievablyyyyyyyy sexy.
graceezzz 6 days ago
THIS IS YOU TUBES NEW MANAGEMENT TEAM.
pleased to meet you.
ralphcraddock 1 week ago
for some reason, this song and this video remind me of Jay-Z.
tsartodd 2 weeks ago
you're an asshole!
uletus 2 weeks ago
not bad, but they totally missed it on the mushroom scene-- was more like a gin - fizz
oreokookie1000 2 months ago
My top fave Stones song. Also the only time I have ever thought Mick was sexy as a man, his drag wasn't bad either. I think I also know where Nick Cave got his look.
MrMonsterstiffy 3 months ago
kind of disturbing
keeeeeeeeeeeef91 3 months ago
I would hardly call this Jagger's final moment.
JaysGOP 4 months ago
Thanks
elleng222 4 months ago
Where can I get a copy of this song? Is it on a sound track release? Just want this Jagger version, not the Stones version.
elleng222 4 months ago
@elleng222 Just search for 'performance jack nitzche' on amazon or itunes, and the album should pop up :-)
edula666 4 months ago
@elleng222 Yeah. Soundtrack from Performance should still be available. Other cuts include the Last Poets etc but Memo From Turner is the shit. Amazing song that totally brings back the strange druggy late 60's to me every time
pkspalding 6 days ago
Jagger greatest ever...
jbstonesfan 4 months ago
why the dutch subtitles?
justRomyM472 5 months ago in playlist Mick Jagger
Ry Cooder on the slide guitar?
spooky29 5 months ago
The line, "Here's to old England!" is missing on the DVD edition. It's a great and important moment in the film so it's good to hear it again.
GordonMorrice 6 months ago
@orgasmicide2 - I'm not sure what an intellectual really is, at this point -- maybe I'm a pseudo-intellectual, I don't know or care -- I really don't care what others think of me -- one of the benefits of having a long life and broad experience.
There are a lot of movies -- just like other works of art -- that I don't 'get' on first exposure. The good ones reveal themselves in time. The lame ones are usually a one-bang affair. Life's too short for superficial crap.
onebluenine 6 months ago
@onebluenine
i agree.
so horray for Fellini's 'Toby Dammit', for Waters' 'Pink Flamingoes' and for 'Tommy' (the Who and Russell).
andreaprodan 4 months ago
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onebluenine 6 months ago
@orgasmicide2 - LOL
Not every movie is for a mass audience. This movie is most definitely not. Just like some movies by folks like Bunuel, Fellini, Kurosawa, Huston, Kubrick, the Coens... Some folks like vanilla. Some like chocolate.
Big world.
onebluenine 6 months ago
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onebluenine 6 months ago
@orgasmicide2 In movie terms, it's probably better to be pretentious rather than vacuous (a fact lost on the makers of most of the films showing in the multiplexes, unfortunately...)
edula666 6 months ago
Performance is a brilliant movie. But, let's face it. It's not for most folks. Most folks need things prechewed for them.
Nicolas Roeg and Don Cammell were two of the most interesting filmmakers around back then. And it was a time when there were a lot of interesting directors working at the fringe of the mainstream.
onebluenine 7 months ago
Mick was the Original Rock star!
DarkestHour999 7 months ago
I don't get it. I'm a huge Stones fan, huge Mick fan and just never got this. What the hell is so great about this song....and this video. From a hetrosexual standpoint...well...hate to say this but its kind of fucked up.
dannyd1572 7 months ago
@dannyd1572 - Not sure what you don't 'get', really. This track fits the tone of the movie perfectly, and blows most of the Stones output from the last 30 years out of the water. Plus, from ANY standpoint (never mind a heterosexual one...?..), Mick Jagger has camped it up beyond belief for his whole career, and gloriously so. That he is surrounded by half-naked, middle aged gangsters just makes him look a little more macho than usual, that's all.
edula666 7 months ago 14
@edula666 Surrounded by naked gangsters makes you macho? Errr ummm don't know about that one. This song the best output from the last 30 years??? Gotta disagree with you. Stones have had some good stuff come out in 30 years. Granted my fav. stones period is from 69-74 but that's a whole other argument.
dannyd1572 7 months ago
@edula666 - oh tiny, tiny minds...
Syntox 7 months ago
@edula666 - It's kinda silly to be a Mick fan and worrying about your "manliness". The guy was in eyeliner and lipstick for the first half the of the 70's, for fucksakes.
Syntox 2 weeks ago
@dannyd1572 - Check out the movie it's sliced out of. It'll make a *lot* more sense then. But -- if you're a real mainsteam kind of guy -- it might not be for you. If you do check out the movie, keep in mind Jagger doesn't show up in it for a half hour or so. And, for sure, this is not a movie for folks who love Michael Bay blockbusters. By a million miles. But, if you see the movie, this excerpt will make a *lot* more sense.
onebluenine 7 months ago
@dannyd1572 Number 1, the guy who wrote the script was a looney. Number 2, the story was supposed to address the issue of Machismo and the Masculine/Feminine duality. The mob boss Harry Flowers in this film is a ruthless gangster, but also Gay. The film, like real life (it asserts) is filled with contradictions.
82compoundw 6 months ago
This scene is a tribute to all the the hipsters, jesters, tramps, killers, muggers, dealers, gangsters, corrupt politicians & government officials, pimps, to all who comprise the underworld - a strange world for the common citizen, yet very colorful and savage.
silviucercel 5 months ago
@dannyd1572 What don't you get? Fuck the video. Theyv'e not done anything of this quality for forty long long years.
broadband0118 3 months ago
@broadband0118 Wrong. This is Jagger with Ry Cooder. The Stones' version wasn't in the movie. It was on one of their albums. Metamorphasis I think. However, this is not the Stones.
dannyd1572 3 months ago
@broadband0118 this was before sticky fingers and exile. What about them?...
schemo0 2 months ago
@schemo0 Fair point.
broadband0118 2 months ago
greatest ever.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jbstonesfan 7 months ago
superb! so much ahead of time this would have to be viewed as excellent today. During an art show in Florida for Ronnie Wood I wore a nice business suit blazer and across the back in plain black stitching was embroidered " Come now gentleman, your love is all I crave. You'll still be in the circus when I'm laughing, laughing in my grave". A woman at the show asked me where I bought it as she wanted to get 1 for her husband. She looked surprised when I told her I had it made.
19nervousbreak 8 months ago
Wow! Thanks for posting:)
Lissabon 8 months ago
Brilliant
gilroy1973 9 months ago
I love this film SO much. haha, here is to old england komraid. this film/song is sooooooooo mint, :D
HanaGeee 10 months ago
Here's to old England !!!
komraid 11 months ago 6
TanX for the education,,,,,;]
PAULLONDEN 11 months ago
i remember when Performance first came out ,got to see it on the big screen ,Memo From Turner allways comes over as a angry rant and that worked for me then and still works for me now , i'm 56 yrs old .Cheers for putting it on .
whitehorsetom 11 months ago
Geldoff took all of this for the wall movie of course
Nothing is new under the sun
BaalZobel 1 year ago
artsy movie, cool stuff.
54taqiyya 1 year ago
Im from San Antone
theword24 1 year ago
I like it !!! Mick looks like he's "cursing the shit out of someone" when he sings here.
maurinquina 1 year ago
nah, there was nothing gay about this at all
chriskoob 1 year ago
@chriskoob It was supposed to be reflecting the somewhat homosexual and dominant nature of the London 1960s gangsters. in this scene, Turner takes the position as the boss to demonstrate his control over Chas.
sixtieschick5 1 year ago
This is song is from the 1968 movie, 'Performance '- Jagger as one of the lead actors. The movie is out of control - - today, akin to a Quentin Tarantino style of movie. Great song from a legend rock star, Mick Jagger.
newenergysol 1 year ago
he is so beautiful
allisonromine 1 year ago 4
@allisonromine umm humm he IS!!
imaRoLLingStonzFan 1 year ago
I say mick IS Beautiful
imaRoLLingStonzFan 1 year ago
mick jagger looks like don knotts
michelleleawaldrop 1 year ago
@michelleleawaldrop I had that thought many times .
vintagezigg 1 year ago
RIP D.C. High Marks On This One (thx Nic)..
Fashizle20 1 year ago
THANK YOU for putting this up, it wears its age SO well. A monster song from a monstrous movie. Nothing shall ever be cooler.
lookadis 1 year ago
Is it true? Did he look" funny at 50"
CrudeDude 1 year ago
My favourite movie with naked dancing gangsters
00dude3 1 year ago
One of The Stones' greatest songs, and never on an LP. Anyone who doesn't like this is a faggy little leather boy with a smaller piece of stick.
richievegas01 1 year ago
this film holds up very well but for the druggy bits
the plot is actually close to THE GODFATHER
sunvana 1 year ago
Boss is talkin' to you wage-slave.
ZOGGYDOGGY 1 year ago
PROPS TO THE MOVIE, PERFORMANCE 1970, THIS SONG, JAGGER/THE STONES, THE EARLY 70s, THE LAST POETS, AND TO YOU FOR POSTING THIS SONG! ONLY MICK COULD SAY "FAGGY" AND NOT (NOT) SOUND LIKE A HOMOPHOBE. DAVEDJ
Multi1628 1 year ago
Looks kinda queerish, 'ey?
Thistlesifter220 1 year ago
@Thistlesifter220 Guess so, but you gotta see the movie to "get it." Mick Jagger rules.
DAVEDJ
Multi1628 1 year ago
hey, 8ssp, 12 hours ago, maybe this film does not stand up as well today, but I saw it when it was first out, and this was an astounding, state of the art film at the time. Still great to look at, after all these years, and so yes, I disagree with you. At least we agree about the song, though
fubar50cat 1 year ago
Great song, crap film.
833P 1 year ago
The film - along with DONT LOOK NOW - that set me on a journey in filmmaking and music and philosphy. Thanks for posting this classic moment
Did you know that Warners threatened to sue Roeg and Cammel for directorial incompetence? They didn't understand a lick of the film--true to Hollywood.
palatinesouth 1 year ago
I "edge-numbered" PERFORMANCE using an Ernest F. Moy numbering machine. The film was edited at Zenith Films, 53 Kensington Gardens Square.Ah... memories.
aleccullen 1 year ago 2
Memo From Turner (longer version) - Mick Jagger - 1970 - "From the cult 1970 movie 'Performance' sound track. I spend a long time finding the LP soundtrack from this movie." - Singles Collection: The London Years (Abkco Disc 3)-1989. NOTE: The soundtrack turned me on the the "Grandfathers of Rap" band The Last Poets.
mikekadas 1 year ago
includes the james fox shaving lesson...followed shortly thereafter by the special carwash and lacquer removal project
freskerdelmonte 1 year ago
I tell you, he reminds me here of Brad Pitt as vampire...
seanreillyireland 1 year ago 16
@seanreillyireland The most startling thing about him when I first saw this in the day that was even more decrepid , was Jagger as a SUIT !
vintagezigg 1 year ago
brad pitts a cunt, dont mention his name while were watching decent stuff, cunts like him dont count,,
spadge321 1 year ago 3
@seanreillyireland Mick Jagger is far more beautiful and dangerous that that blond, dim, stoner. Brad Pitt isn't fit to hold Jagger's coat.
KellyGreen5555 10 months ago 4
@KellyGreen5555 comparing him to brad pitt ? obviously no comparison. however more beautiful and dangerous, i must respectfully dis-agree; not hating on ya but thanx 4 posting/ this is only mick's best highlight EVA !!!
snizz6913 8 months ago
@snizz6913 Someone posted that Mick is sexier than Brad Pitt, and I wholeheartedly agree.
KellyGreen5555 8 months ago
awesome, awesome awesome!!
bbudab 1 year ago
Love it!!
veinteporciento 1 year ago
heres to old england
great,briliiant.
ralphcraddock 1 year ago 2
@ralphcraddock Indeed. Sadly, it is missing on the DVD, probably because the DVD uses the stereo track from the album mix of "Memo". But the DVD is well worth getting. An amazing film on many levels.
GordonMorrice 1 year ago
fo get juked
ebhe0806am 1 year ago
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i like Mick from 2:20-2:50!!! is like he does STRIPTEASE!!!
ILOVERONNIE100 1 year ago
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ILOVERONNIE100 1 year ago
Fucking Dat hoor ik graag. Luider.
CincinnatiBowties 1 year ago
Funny lookin' geezer arentcha? You'll look WEIRD when you're fifty...
Kelly14UK 1 year ago 2
@Kelly14UK You Slag!
mrmagoo1016 1 year ago
" You're the man who squats , behind the man , who works the soft machine !" LOL !
Brilliant - Mick !
SAYZ 1 year ago
@SAYZ Tis brilliant, and a pun on William Burroughs's novel THE SOFT MACHINE
angel4everable 1 year ago
@angel4everable : Yeah William and I are both St. Louisians but we had several mutual friends , in New York . I found his live , monotone , readings rather dreary but I did read his works and watched several bios on him .
SAYZ 1 year ago
@SAYZ I amazed and envious that you got to see and hear Bill W. Think how much he contributed to rock phraseology, from "heavy metal" to "Steely Dan".
angel4everable 1 year ago
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SAYZ 1 year ago
@angel4everable : You shouldn't feel that way , man . I was just a bit like Forrest Gump ; turning up at the oddest places at the right time .
I still know a lot of young musicians and people in the arts that are pushing all the boundaries .
Ya just gotta take a few quantum steps and show up . There's still a lot of history being made .
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SAYZ 1 year ago
QUE GRANDE MICK ♥
fraancostone79 1 year ago
As I have been told, this is the first film released to the public eye with a group sex scene. They were in a tub so it was just good clean fun!
Dude2012iffy 1 year ago
@Dude2012iffy Are you in all sincerity stating that before the release of this film noone has ever filmed a groupsexscene before? Porn must have been real dull before Goddard, like in the sixties.
Sita570 1 year ago
@Sita570 perhaps I should have been more clear in that from what I have read that this was released to the general audience in regular movie theaters. In no way was I including porn shops or theaters!
Dude2012iffy 1 year ago
@Dude2012iffy ; Actually there is full body , nude scene of him in bed . It was mysteriously lost , when the film was first shown but it turned up at a film festival nd has been added back in the full version .
Everyone was a bit disappointed when the " MICK DICK " was finally revealed ! LOL !
Many performers have talked , publicly , about Mick's tendency to stuff a sock in his pants !
SAYZ 1 year ago
Went to see this on acid, I think, therefore I was! Also saw A Clockwork Orange and 'If' about the same time, within an hour or two, and they were good too, but I had to eat a whole bag of acid. Oh wait, I had a whole bag of acid I ate like M&M's. Nevermind.... I really was there, somewhere...
Dude2012iffy 1 year ago
@Dude2012iffy LOL
biggerturtle 1 year ago
@Dude2012iffy MY MAN
biggerturtle 1 year ago
best movie in the entire world :)
sixtieschick5 1 year ago 14
yep yep yep
jmackman 1 year ago
what a BADASS
ate3333 1 year ago