The Rolling Stones - Beast Of Burden

What this video is

Filmed during the Rolling Stones' 1978 Some Girls US tour, this performance document captures the band at a pivotal moment of reinvention. Punk rock had declared war on arena rock dinosaurs, and the Stones — burdened by Keith Richards' looming drug conviction and a mid-decade creative slump — responded with Some Girls, widely hailed as their finest work since Exile on Main St. The Fort Worth performance embodies…

Why it matters

A canonical document of late-1970s classic rock's survival against punk displacement. The Some Girls era represents the last unambiguous artistic peak of the Rolling Stones and 'Beast of Burden' is its emotional centerpiece — a soulful, R&B-inflected slow burner that demonstrated the band could…

The director

Lynn Lenau is a Dallas-based documentary filmmaker who directed the 1978 concert film Some Girls Live in Texas for the Rolling Stones, shooting the Will Rogers Auditorium performance with an all-local crew on July 18, 1978. The film was shot on 16mm and…