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3. Performance

A London gangster played by James Fox meets a rock star played by - you guessed it - Mick Jagger. A riveting, frantic, bold and slightly discombobulated work, co-directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, Performance, released in 1970 but filmed two years earlier, with its no-holds-barred sexuality (a menage a trois involving Anita Pallenberg - hey now!) and violence so offended Warner Brothers that they wanted to bury this then X-rated flick - and pretty much did. 'Tis a pity, as Jagger turns in his most forceful screen, um, performance, while Fox goes utterly unhinged. A delightfully nutty Moog score by Jack Nitzsche, plus Jagger's Message From Turner (he even sings some Robert Johnson), makes this a musical bounty. UK audiences know this as a late-night TV treat; US viewers have yet to catch on.

4. Cocksucker Blues

Well, whaddaya know? It's good ol' Mick again, only this time he's brought his Rolling Stone pals in this light-hearted romp sure to delight kids from 9 to 90. Uh... yeah. In reality, this 1972 documentary of the Stones' Exile On Main Street tour was packed with backstage sex and sex and sex and more sex (not to mention trainloads of drugs). However it's so light on songs that it was shelved, never theatrically shown, although a few art houses did manage to get their hands on it. With cameos by the likes of Truman Capote, Dick Cavett, Ahmet Ertegun, Stevie Wonder and Andy Warhol (nope, they're not all having sex - yikes!), Cocksucker Blues is true fly-on-the-wall voyeuristic bliss.

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