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"I was never really sold on the idea of doing a straight tour film of the Stones," David Maysles said. "What we actually have is a mystery story, you realize. A detective story, sort of"

“The Stones hired us to act as security for $500 worth of beer. That Mick Jagger, he used us for dupes.”

“Four people from the throng died violently, three of them by violent accident. The fourth, a still-nameless black man, was kicked and stabbed to death.”

“The tension of wanting to say more than the tradition can allow explodes the tradition.”

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In “Just a Shot Away,” Saul Austerlitz revisits the concert that started in hope and ended in bloodshed