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Topic: McCartney Recruits 'Gimme Shelter' Director For Concert For New York Film Return to archive
12-07-01 09:05 AM
CS Filmmaker Albert Maysles shot miles of footage of McCartney, starting five days before

Filmmaker Albert Maysles, who 31 years ago Thursday (December 6) debuted the documentary "The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter," chronicling the Rolling Stones' infamous 1969 tour that ended in tragedy at Altamont Speedway (which occurred 32 years ago Thursday), has confirmed he is working on a new film about Paul McCartney and the Concert for New York City.


Held on October 20 at New York's Madison Square Garden, the event was organized to raise funds for the families of police officers and firefighters killed in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. McCartney, Backstreet Boys, Destiny's Child, Jay-Z, Elton John, the Who, David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and many others performed at the


show.


Maysles shot miles of footage of McCartney, starting five days before the concert up until the actual event. McCartney asked Maysles to film in black and white, as he did in 1964 when he shot the Beatles for the movie "Beatles: The First U.S. Visit," which was produced for Britain's Granada Television and released on video in the U.S. in 1991.


The documentarian has said he will spend the next six months editing the Concert for New York footage.


He has worked on other music films in the past, including "Monterey Pop" in 1968 and "The Grateful Dead Movie" in 1976. "Gimme Shelter" is his most well-known movie, though, largely because it captured the tumult and violence of the Altamont concert, including a man in the crowd being fatally stabbed by a member of the Hell's Angels, who were hired by the Stones to handle security at the event.



� Jon Wiederhorn

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