Brian Jones - A Degree of Murder 2

More music from the german 1966 movie Mord und Totschlag a.k.a A Degree of Murder. The soundtrack was composed by Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones and was sadly never released on it's own. The movie is rarely seen today. The sound was ripped straight from the DVD and therefor dialog is present on top of the music. This is how good it gets...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Degree_of_Murder

In this clip you can hear Brian play together with Nicky Hopkins, Jimmy Page and Kenney Jones.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Brian Jones
• Rolling Stones
• 1966
• Aftermath
• A Degree of Murder
• Anita Pallenberg
• Mord und Totschlag

[SUNNYRHOADES9]

Great stuff I would love to see this movie re-released today awesome muisc for 40 years ago.Thank you from Canada.

[atticthoughts]

@SUNNYRHOADES9 The movie doesn't live up to the soundtrack as it's very amateurish. I do like the story though. So with that in mind I must say that Brian did a great job with the score. Schlöndorff thought so too. I would love to see an official release of the soundtrack since it's not only interesting for Brian and Stones-fans but also for fans of Jimmy Page and Nicky Hopkins. It's not that strong on it's own (like Harrisons Wonderwall for instance) but still good and interesting.

[furzkanne]

Holy.... isn't it a shame for every person involved that the A degree of murder-soundtrack never came out as an album? I just can't believe it. Where to hell are the mastertapes? Kidnapped or what? Holy christ!!!

[richievegas01]

From Wiki, it cites a very reliable source (ie: Bill) "Bill Wyman claims in his books that the song "Paint It, Black", the first single released in 1966 from Aftermath, was a collective effort of the group, and should have been credited Nanker Phelge, but mistakenly was credited to Jagger/Richards at the end."  Mistakenly my arse...

[NeoNKL77]

@richievegas01 I beleive they want to delete Brian name from song writer chronology.

[atticthoughts]

@richievegas01 Yes, PIB is a good example of how important it was for Oldham to have the Jagger/Richards credit as a part of promoting the Rolling Stones. I don't think that it was the glimmers that decided the credis on that actually since everybody in the band, including the glimmers, seem to agree that it was a song that happend in the studio. If that is so NankerPhelge would have been a more fair choice.

[richievegas01]

@atticthoughts Yeah, Mick T. co-wrote the sublime 'Moonlight Mile' and the hugely under-rated 'Sway' from 'Sticky Fingers', Keith is totally upfront about that, Mick doesn't get any credit though. He has a co-writing credit for 'Ventillator Blues' from 'Exile' and I think that's it.

[richievegas01]

@atticthoughts Early pressings of 'Paint It, Black' were meant to be have been credited Nanker/Phelge, the group's joint writing credit, but it wasn't renewed and is now Jagger/Richards. Have to check back on where I read that. The contributions Bill, Brian and Charlie made to that song are absolutely essential to it.

[atticthoughts]

@JoshSwartzberg A Degree of Murder has nothing to do with the Stones or Zep. Brian Jones composed it and it's cool that he got his buddy Page to play on it. It's special in three ways: 1. It's a versatile piece of work for somebody who hadn't written a soundtrack before. 2. The soundtrack fits the movie it was made for perfectly and 3. It was composed by a guy that has been described as somebody that had no talent to write music.

[atticthoughts]

@JoshSwartzberg The only reason that Bill was able to get In Another Land on a Stones album was because he recorded it with session musicians one night when the rest of the band didn't show up. He got a rare opportunity to show the glimmers a finished product that they would find difficult to reject. Lucky for Bill the glimmers even liked it enough to sing background vocals on it. It was the right album as well. But it's not a band effort and he never got the chance again.