Four months shy of his 65th birthday, Mick Jagger is as spry as ever. The proof is in the Rolling Stones and Martin Scorsese’s Shine a Light, the concert documentary that opened in USA last week. In the film, Jagger prances, dances and gyrates, contorting his way through a set list that includes Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Satisfaction, Shattered and Some Girls.

Q. Why is it time for a concert film again?
Well, we haven’t done a concert on film. And the one we did before that was in 1981 with Hal Ashby. When we decided to work with Martin he didn’t want to shoot a big concert, so we had to create something that both Martin and we were happy with.
I think Martin’s a great director, but I wanted to shoot the concert we were doing in Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro because it was very visual with its huge million-plus audience on this beach, very unusual and all these great looking people and a lot of music around it... Martin wanted something smaller, and we didn’t have anything smaller on the tour schedule.

Q. I think seeing it I’ve never felt closer to you guys.
I think that was the intention.

Q. At the Berlin Film Festival, Keith said the cameras didn’t bother him. Was it any different for you?
The first night there were only cameras and hardly any audience. The second night we moved a lot of camera positions because they were so in your face. You were so aware because when you have a camera, you’re not playing to the audience, you’re playing to the camera. ... I was totally aware of the cameras.

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