Blu-ray Review

Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang, The: Live On Copacabana Beach

Blu-ray | 2CD

Featured in Issue 256, July/August 2021

Picture
5
Sound
5
WSR Score
5
Disc Information
Studio Mercury Studios
Catalog Number MSSDB58993
MPAA Rating Not Rated
Retail Price $32.98
Disc Type Single Side, Dual Layer (BD-50)
Running Time 117 min
Color Color
Chapters Yes
Closed Captioned Yes
Regional Coding ABC
Release Date 7/9/2021
Credits
Director J. B. De Oliveira & Carlos Magalnes
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Disc Soundtrack DTS HD Lossless 5.1

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"The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang: Live On Copacabana Beach" captures the rock group in one of the biggest free concerts in history recorded live at the famed Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on February 8, 2006. This is the first time the concert film is released complete, remixed, re-edited and remastered. Right from the film's opening moments, when The Rolling Stones emerge on their own purpose-built bridge leading from the Copacabana Palace Hotel, there's an electric energy that courses through the air, ricocheting between the band and the 1.5 million people in attendance. Aerial shots convey the sprawling enormity of the crowd, watching not only from the beach, but from boats moored at the water's edge. As Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts fire on all pistons from one track to the next, the crowd continues to meet their energy in furious fervor, waving Brazilian and British flags while rocking out in the tropical evening sunset in celebration of the band's 2005 album "Bigger Bang."

Four songs that were not in the original 2007 DVD release "The Biggest Bang" are featured for the first time: "Tumbling Dice", "Oh No, Not You Again", 'This Place Is Empty" and "Sympathy For The Devil." This concert brilliantly showcases this impactful two-hour set, which runs the gamut of The Rolling Stones' career: "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)," "Brown Sugar," "Start Me UP," "Satisfaction" and "Wild Horses" swerve between then-new tracks "Rain Fall Down," "This Place Is Empty" and "Rough Justice" from "Bigger Bang."

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