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Cocksucker Blues is probably the most controversial pop music documentary of all time. Robert Frank follows the Rolling Stones on their 1972 US tour to promote their album Exile on Main Street. It is the first time they have returned to the United States after their 1969 concert in Altamont got dramatically out of hand and a fan stabbed to death as a result. The band members are stressed and seek an outlet in drug use, group sex and screaming arguments. Frank captures it up close and gives band members their own camera to get even closer to the backstage drama, which provides harrowing images of wild parties and rampant conflicts in the dressing and hotel rooms of the pop artists. The resulting film is so confrontational that Mick Jagger wanted to have screening in court banned. The compromise that is reached is that the film may only be shown during special screenings in the presence of Frank, and no more than four times a year. Even more than sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, Cocksucker Blues is so fierce because of the loneliness and emptiness of the rock star existence it conveys.
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