Cocksucker Blues (1972)

Would you expect an exposing documentary on The Rolling Stones to have any other title? The footage captured by director Robert Frank for this film during the Stones’ 1972 US tour supporting Exile on Main St., was so jarring and exposing that they didn’t want it to be seen. The way the film was captured, was through cameras that were readily accessible to everyone, so the footage that was captured and edited together, had drug use, nudity, roadie and groupie ‘antics,’ and the band members with their guards down, showing their vulnerabilities. The band was embarrassed and didn’t want any incriminating footage of themselves broadcast, so they got it banned, with a specific set of rules around its exhibition.

For example, the film cannot be screened more than 4 times per year, with Frank present and the permission of the Stones.