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imagine...: The Stones in Exile

The Stones in Exile

23/05/2010

BBC One - imagine..., The Stones in Exile

The story of the making of The Rolling Stones' acclaimed 1972 album Exile on Main Street.

The story of the making of The Rolling Stones' acclaimed 1972 album Exile on Main Street. Facing huge unpaid tax bills, the band fled to a crazy and chaotic French Riviera life.

Alan Yentob introduces a revealing documentary which tells the story of the making of The Rolling Stones' acclaimed 1972 album, Exile on Main Street. 

Facing huge unpaid tax bills in Britain, the band fled to the French Riviera. Life was crazy and chaotic there, yet the band still managed to make one of the seminal albums of rock and roll history.

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