MARTIN SCORSESE: Pure rock ’n’ roll. They didn’t touch up any of the music, except one note, I think. RS: There’s no social commentary in it. Aside from the incredible lines in Mick Jagger’s face, he’s still moving the way he used to. That’s an inspiration rather than a commentary. I mean, my knees ache in the morning when I get up. MS: After Jagger saw the first cut of it, he said, “You know, I’m still tired from the film.” He said, “It’s one thing if I did two songs in one day. But I did all that in two hours.” I intended to keep him part of the group—to show how they play off each other onstage, the energy and the exchange of physical and psychic energy, the intimate nature of it all. Keith Richards moving out onstage, bending, kneeling down. RS: In some weird way it was, as I said, kind of inspirational. Every once in a while you see the audience and they’re very young as a whole. There are very few old gents like you and me in the audience.
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