Let’s Spend the Night Together

Dir. Hal Ashby. 1982, 95 mins. 70mm. With the Rolling Stones. With Let’s Spend the Night Together, 1970s cinema icon Hal Ashby gives viewers front row seats to the steamy spectacle of The Rolling Stones’s record-breaking 1981 North American tour, in support of their multi-platinum commercial comeback, Tattoo You. Filmed at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey (November 5–6, 1981) and at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona (December 13, 1981), twenty cameras take you onstage, backstage, and through the crowd while the band plays their biggest songs from their first two decades, offering in the words of Mick Jagger, “a feel of what it’s like to be there.”