The Hyde Park concert, filmed two days after Brian Jones' death. Described as 'a major event in English social history'. [Digitally Remastered Audio]
The Stones in the Park generally refers to a free outdoor festival held in Hyde Park on 5 July 1969, headlined by The Rolling Stones and featuring Third Ear Band, King Crimson, Screw, Alexis Korner's New Church, Family and Battered Ornaments, in front of a crowd estimated at between 250,000 and 500,000 fans.
It was the Stones' first public concert in over two years, and was planned as an introduction of new guitarist, Mick Taylor, though circumstances inevitably changed following the death of former member Brian Jones two days earlier.
The Complete Show from December 19, 1989 Convention Center Atlantic City, New Jersey.
By the time the Rolling Stones began calling themselves the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the late '60s, they had already staked out an impressive claim on the title. As the self-consciously dangerous alternative to the bouncy Merseybeat of the Beatles in the British Invasion, the Stones had pioneered the gritty, hard-driving blues-based rock & roll that came to define hard rock.
In 1969, after several years off the road, the Rolling Stones decided to get back to the business of playing live with a free concert in London's Hyde Park, which would give them a chance to break in their new guitarist, Mick Taylor. Two days before the concert took place, the group's original lead guitarist and founder, Brian Jones, drowned in his swimming pool, and what was intended to be a celebration became a memorial for the fallen star…