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Music History Events: Movies

January 22, 1971 The Joe Cocker film Mad Dogs and Englishmen, featuring performances by Cocker, Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge, and others, premieres in London.

January 7, 1971 The film Performance, starring Mick Jagger, premieres in London two years after its completion.

December 6, 1970 The Rolling Stones' tour documentary Gimme Shelter, featuring footage of the infamous Altamont concert, opens in New York City.

October 19, 1970 The Australian outlaw film Ned Kelly, featuring Mick Jagger in his first starring role, is released to scathing reviews.

August 1, 1970 After two years of sitting on the shelf (namely due to shocking sex and violence scenes), the gangster movie Performance premieres in London. It features what would have been the acting debut of the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger (Ned Kelly was released first).

July 28, 1970 The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger makes his acting debut in Ned Kelly, a film about the legendary Australian outlaw, which makes his debut in Kelly's own hometown of Glenrowan.

March 26, 1970 The Woodstock movie premieres in Hollywood.

December 12, 1969 The movie The Magic Christian, starring Ringo Starr, premieres in the UK. The film includes three Badfinger songs, including "Come And Get It," written by Paul McCartney.

November 2, 1969 The Rolling Stones quasi-documentary Sympathy For The Devil, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, premieres in San Francisco.

September 3, 1969 The 30th Elvis Presley movie, the '20s period piece The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get Into It), is released.

August 24, 1969 Folksinger Arlo Guthrie's film Alice's Restaurant, based on his hit song of the same name, premieres in both Los Angeles and New York.

August 18, 1969 While filming the violent gangster movie Ned Kelly in Australia, Mick Jagger is hit in the hand by a stray bullet from an old gun being used as a prop.

June 5, 1969 The Doors concert documentary Feast Of Friends premieres at the Cinematheque in Los Angeles.

June 4, 1969 Hundreds of people in Glenrowan, Australia, sign a petition protesting against the casting of Mick Jagger in the role of the Australian folk hero Ned Kelly for the film of the same name. Jagger plays the part anyway.

March 31, 1969 A short John Lennon film entitled Rape appears on Australian TV.

March 12, 1969 Elvis Presley's Charro! movie opens in theaters - it's the only Elvis movie where he has a beard. Elvis records the title song for the film, but it flops.

March 5, 1969 Elvis Presley goes to Hollywood and begins filming his last non-concert movie, Change Of Habit, co-starring Mary Tyler Moore as a nun who falls for Elvis.

February 20, 1969 Ringo Starr's X-rated film, Candy, premieres in London.

December 26, 1968 D.A. Pennebaker's documentary Monterey Pop, which chronicles the 1967 Monterey International Pop Music Festival (where The Who smashed their instruments and Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire) opens in theaters.

November 13, 1968 The Beatles' Yellow Submarine film premieres in New York.

October 23, 1968 Elvis Presley's movie Live A Little, Love A Little is released.

June 12, 1968 The movie Speedway, starring Elvis Presley as a race car driver and Nancy Sinatra as his love interest, opens in theaters.

March 8, 1968 Elvis Presley's 26th movie, Stay Away, Joe, premieres in New York City. The comedy features Elvis as a Native American rodeo champion.

December 26, 1967 The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour film debuts on BBC-TV.

December 17, 1967 The Beatles' John Lennon and George Harrison throw a party in London for the area secretaries of their official Fan Club. The film Magical Mystery Tour is screened here for the first time.

December 14, 1967 Dick Clark announces that he's filming a movie about hippies, The Love Children, starring Jack Nicholson and Dean Stockwell and featuring the music of Strawberry Alarm Clock and the Seeds.

October 18, 1967 The Richard Lester movie How I Won The War, an antiwar satire featuring John Lennon in the role of Pvt. Gripweed, opens at London's Premiere Theatre, with all four Beatles attending.

September 24, 1967 The Beatles film the dance scene to their song "Your Mother Should Know" for their film Magical Mystery Tour. Paul McCartney stokes the rumors that he is dead by wearing a black carnation while the other guys wear red.

September 18, 1967 The Beatles journey to the Raymond Revue bar in London to film the notorious "striptease" scene in Magical Mystery Tour. Accompanying stripper Jan Carson is The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, playing a song called "Death Cab For Cutie."

September 11, 1967 In Hampshire, England, The Beatles begin filming Magical Mystery Tour, their third movie.