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Cocksucker Blues
Cocksucker Blues is an unreleased documentary film directed by the still photographer Robert Frank chronicling The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972 in support of their album "Exile on Main St."
Production.
There was much anticipation for the band's arrival in the United States, since they had not visited there since the 1969 disaster at the Altamont Free Concert, in which a fan was stabbed and beaten to death by Hells Angels, with the incident being caught on camera. Behind the scenes, the tour embodied debauchery,
"Chafed Elbows" playing in neighborhood theatres." "Deep Throat" was released in the same year. A Rolling Stones concert film, "", was released instead, and "Cocksucker Blues" was indefinitely shelved.
The court order in question also enjoined Frank against exhibiting "Cocksucker Blues" more frequently than four times per year in an "archival setting" with Frank being present.
The film was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in November 2012 as part of a two-week