Rolling Stones 50th anniversary plans include TV documentary and box set
The Rolling Stones will not be touring in 2012 to celebrate the band's 50th anniversary, but as many fans expected, there will be a Rolling Stones documentary, merchandise and reissues with previously unreleased content as part of the band's 50th anniversary plans.
According to the Daily Mail, the Rolling Stones will have a 50th anniversary documentary on TV, as well as a "greatest hits" box set. Release dates and any other further details have not been announced yet for the TV show or box set.
The Daily Mail also reports that even though guitarist Keith Richards' ongoing health problems from a 2006 brain injury have affected the band's tour plans, insiders are saying there is still enough tension between Richards and lead singer Mick Jagger that will likely prevent any Rolling Stones tour from happening in 2013.
The Rolling Stones have already announced that there will be a Rolling Stones 50th anniversary documentary film (titled to be announced) due out in September 2012 on Eagle Rock Entertainment, as well as an authorized photo book titled "Rolling Stones: 50" that is set for a July 2012 release.
It is unclear at this point if the TV documentary will have the same content as the film documentary. Eagle Rock Entertainment has released the most recent Rolling Stone documentaries in cinemas for a limited time (usually one night only) in numerous cities around the world, folllowed by the film's DVD and Blu-ray release about a month later. The Rolling Stones' 50th anniversary documentary film will likely be released in the same manner.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail reports that the docmentary will include the December 2011 jam sessions that took place in London with Rolling Stones members Jagger, Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts and ex-Rolling Stones bass player Bill Wyman.
The Daily Mail, quoting unnamed sources, also reports that Jagger's reluctance to tour with the Rolling Stones is in large part because of lingering hard feelings over the insults that Richards hurled at Jagger in Richards' 2010 memoir, "Life."
Even though Richards expressed regret about in the insults in a March 2012 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the Daily Mail alleges that Jagger is still holding a grudge that would exist even if Richards were completely healthy.
A source commented to the Daily Mail about Jagger and Richards: "They are trying very hard to put across the image that they are all pals and that it is forgotten, but it is still a completely dysfunctional and broken relationship."
The article also points out what has been obvious for quite some time, based on what the Rolling Stones have been saying in their most recent interiews: All of the members of the Rolling Stones except for Jagger want to do another Rolling Stones tour.
