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Best of the British Invasion [VHS]

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From the moment I popped the Stones component of this video duopoly into my VCR I knew I had made a big mistake. I have watched some pretty degraded videos of otherwise impossible to get hold of rock performances but nothing matches this for sheer lack of quality. Viewed as if through black muslin comes badly edited snippets from the Stones appearance on a 1964 Pathe newsreel interspersed with clips from Peter Whitehead's charming documentary of the Stones during a 1965 tour of Ireland. Both these items are in circulation in excellent quality with the Pathe newsreel in glowing colur as opposed to the murky monochrome of this video.Under these circumstances the disclainer that due to the rarity of these performances some portions of the video are regretfully not of the quality that the distributors of this garbage would wish, is clearly a bit of a put on. After a few minutes of staring in incomprehension at this miserable tape and listening to a soundtrack that adds a final touch of condecension to this whole shoddy enterprise, I gave up in disgust and binned the lot. Stones fans wishing to see the band at their peak should save their money and get 25 X 5 an excellent and definitive documentary on the Stones or if you already have that, then Volume 6 of Hullabaloo is worth a shot for the lads in top form as they perform "She Said Yeah" and "Get Off My Cloud".The Beatles fan is equally well served by the abundance of material unearthed over the years and both groups featured nearly all their sixties hits on the Ed Sullivan shows which are all available with much of the material in glorious colour.Those were the days... and best remembered by watching decently produced material and not this dross!