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| Embassy Pictures | Release Date: October 15, 1982 |
Starring:
Bill Wyman, Bobby Keys, Charlie Watts, Ernie Watts, Ian McLagan, Ian Stewart, Jerry Hall, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Ron Wood
Summary:
Hal Ashby's film chronicles The Rolling Stones' shows in Tempe, Arizona and East Rutherford, New Jersey during their 1981 US tour.
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It all comes down to the difference between a "concert film" and a documentary. Let’s Spend The Night Together is essentially a concert film recording an "ideal" Rolling Stones concert, put together out of footage shot at several outdoor and indoor Stones concerts. If that's what you want, enjoy this movie. I wanted more.
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Stones fans will enjoy Let's Spend the Night Together, flaws and all; those who aren't devotees of the venerable band won't be converted by the movie, and probably should stay away. [17 Feb 1983, p.B9]
A spotty documentary of the Rolling Stones 1981 concert tour. [11 Feb 1983, p.23]
Let's Spend the Night Together is a disappointing souvenir, at best a sweet substitute for the many who couldn't catch the Stones live. The Stones' status has always excused their shortcomings, so this film won't shake the believers. But it won't convince the skeptics, either. [12 Feb 1983, p.C1]
There is one egregious misstep: the photographs of mutilated Vietnamese
bodies which appear on the screen during the song, Time Is On My Side,
which is grotesque and fundamentally dishonest. No major band has been
less interested in politics than The Rolling Stones, and that's what makes
Let's Spend The Night Together so infuriating. It purports to be about
something momentous, but has absolutely nothing to say. In that, at least,
Ashby's film captures perfectly the spirit of the Stones' 1981 tour. [11 March 1993]
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