Stones '72 vs Springsteen '78: Two Different Live Rock Documents

The Stones’ 1972 North American tour is celebrated as the peak of their swagger – Jagger at his most snake-hipped, the band loose and dangerous. The resulting film, Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones, was a raw, in-the-moment concert movie shot over four nights at Texas’s Fort Worth Convention Center and Houston’s Hofheinz Pavilion. It captures the physicality of a single tour: the sweat, the cocaine-fueled energy, and the precise chaos of a band that had just finished Exile on Main St. The film is almost entirely performance, with no backstage nonsense,