I guess maybe because I know so much of The Rolling Stones' story backwards & forwards at this point I wasn't expecting much but I was pleasantly surprised at how entertained I was.

The chronology of events is wholly familiar but for someone who isn't as versed in them this could be a good introduction.

There's a decent amount of photos/footage that I can't recall seeing before & they pull nicely from previous docs both widely replayed (Gimme Shelter) and rarely shown (the famously shelved D.A. Pennebaker 'Cocksucker Blues').

Just happened to come home from dinner to turn on the TV right at the 'And Now, HBO Presents...' promo.

Within the first five minutes I'm hearing a Keith-lead-vocal-and-piano-demo while the camera catches Jagger sniffing coke off the end of a switchblade just before going onstage at MSG in '72.

From that point forward, I was hooked. The next two hours passed pretty quickly.

It wisely sticks to the first twenty years of their career when the 'next' album still mattered & it's crisply edited by Brett Morgen (of Robert Evans' 'The Kid Stays In The Picture' fame).

Worth a look for diehard, casual fans or those altogether unfamilar I'd say.