Rolling Stones - Gather Moss (British Pathé News 1964) (Hi Quality)

Happy Birthday to The Rolling Stones, on the fiftieth anniversary of their first gig! Archive footage of the Rolling Stones in 1964 hitchhiking before performing at the ABC Cinema in Hull. We also see them in their dressing room tuning up and flirting with female reporters at a press conference -- before competing with thousands of screaming fans to be heard in the actual concert. Fifty years ago today, July 12 1962, a nervous band called the Rollin’ Stones played their first gig -- to a bemused crowd of jazz fans. In the summer of 1962, the management of the Academy cinema on Oxford Street in London thought it wise to warn patrons that the film they were about to see, the big-screen adaptation of John Wyndham’s novel about killer plants, The Day of the Triffids, “contained graphic horror“ and “might prove disturbing to those of a nervous disposition“. Today, Wyndham’s mutant shrubs look blandly innocuous. But on the night of Thursday 12 July, in a basement cl