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A restored and expanded version of “The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965” will premiere at New York City’s Walter Reade Theater on September 29, ahead of a DVD/Blu-ray release in November. The film is being presented as part of the 50th New York Film Festival, which runs from September 28 to October 14. A second screening will take place at the same venue on October 3.

Originally titled “Charlie Is My Darling,” the movie was shot on the band’s tour of Ireland in 1965 and features the first professionally filmed concert performances of the Rolling Stones, including “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “The Last Time” and “Time Is On My Side”. The original movie was directed by Peter Whitehead and produced by Rolling Stones manager and producer Andrew Loog Oldham. The 2012 version was put together by director Mick Gochanour and producer Rick Klein, who previously worked on “The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus”.

“The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965” comes out on DVD, Blu-ray and as a super deluxe box set on November 6. Scroll down for pre-order information.

In other Rolling Stones news, there is also fresh speculation that the band will celebrate their 50th anniversary with new material after they were photographed leaving a Paris recording studio last week. This was followed up by Mick Jagger tweeting the following photograph, with the message “Had fun in the Paris studio this week!”

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Mick Jagger has also recently confirmed that the band will definitely be performing live soon, perhaps as earlier as this autumn.

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The New Releases page has been updated to include music CD, DVD and Blu-ray releases for August.

Highlights for August include:

• a series of Johnny Cash albums, including a Number Ones deluxe edition (Aug 7)
• a 20-CD box set featuring some of Elvis Presley’s strongest albums (Aug 14)
• “Two Sides – The Very Best Of Mike Oldfield” and deluxe editions of “Platinum” and “QE2” (Aug 14)
• “Kinks at the BBC” 5-CD/single DVD box set (Aug 21)
• Lynyrd Skynyrd’s new album “Last of a Dyin’ Breed” (Aug 21)
• “Roxy Music – Complete Studio Recordings” 10-CD box set (Aug 28)
• Art Garfunkel – The Singer” 2-CD collection (Aug 28)
• remastered editions of 12 original Frank Zappa albums (Aug 28).

HBO will be celebrating the Rolling Stones’ 50th anniversary by airing an as yet untitled documentary this fall.

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The Rolling Stones have released a group photograph to mark the 50th anniversary of their first gig, which took place at London’s Marquee Club.

The photo was taken at the site of the Marquee Club, which is now a bank, and features the band’s current line-up of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts. It was taken by world famous portrait and fashion photographer, Rankin.

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The New Releases page has been updated to include music CD, DVD and Blu-ray releases for July.

Highlights for July include:

• “Jimi Hendrix at Berkeley” expanded edition on Blu-ray, DVD and CD, + “Voodoo Child” Blu-ray (July 10)
• “Woody at 100: Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection” book and CD box set (July 10)
• “Elton John vs Pnau – Good Morning to the Night” (July 17)
• “Crosby, Stills and Nash – CSN 2012” on DVD and Blu-ray (July 17)
• “I Am An Elvis Fan” compilation (July 31).