MVD Entertainment Group has tabbed June 12 for the
DVD debut of the Icon Television Music production of documentary filmmaker Jeff
Stacey’s Every Night's a Saturday Night.
The subject of Stacey’s film is the life and career
of legendary saxophonist Bobby Keys, who, by chance, struck up a friendship
with a young British rocker by the name of Keith Richards in 1964, when The
Rolling Stones came to the United States for their first tour — which by all
accounts was a complete disaster.
Nevertheless, the 21-year old Keys made enough of an
impression with Richards and his bandmates that he was would become life-long
friends with both Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. But more to the point, Keys would be the Sax
Man for many of their recording, including the “Billboard Hot 100” Number One
hit, “Brown Sugar” in 1971 (“Sticky Fingers” album … and single).
Legend has it that “Brown Sugar” was actually
recorded in 1969 when the Stones were back in the Unites States for the tour
that included the Altamont Speedway Free Festival concert in December of that
year. “Brown Sugar” was performed live for
the first time as part of the Stone’s set (segments can be seen in the 1970
documentary, Gimme Shelter).
From the late 1960s until Keys death in 2014, he was
the go-to guy if you needed a saxophone player. If you want a who’s who of rockers that he
performed with, a few examples would be John Lennon (on at least four albums,
not counting a joint venture with Paul McCartney ), Eric Clapton, Humble Pie,
Joe Cocker, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chuck Berry, Carly Simon and more … many, many
more.
Filmmaker Jeff Stacey, working with Bobby Keys’
biography (Bobby Keys and Bill Ditenhafer … published in 2012), “Every Night's a Saturday Night: The Rock 'n'
Roll Life of Legendary Sax Man Bobby Keys,” as the backbone for the film
itself, we get the details of Keys career and hear directly (interview) from
those who knew him, including Keith Richards and many, many more.
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