The Rolling Stones are to release a DVD of 'Rock and Roll Circus' on 11 Oct. The concert was filmed in Dec 1968 for a television special but was never broadcast, only being made public when it was released on CD and VHS in 1996. The DVD edition is sourced to the original 16mm negatives, while the audio has been remixed in 5.1 Surround Sound.
Commentary tracks are offered from Rolling Stones members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman, plus Yoko Ono, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, Marianne Faithfull and director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, among others.
Among the previously unreleased clips are a backstage meeting between Jagger, Ono and John Lennon; an alternate take of Lennon performing the Beatles' 'Yer Blues' with Mitch Mitchell, Richards and Eric Clapton; three additional Taj Mahal songs; an interview with the Who's Pete Townsend; and Fatboy Slim's 2003 remix of the Stones' 'Sympathy for the Devil'.