The Rolling Stones played in front of 1.5million people, the biggest concert of all time, at Copacabana Beach, Rio De Janeiro, on the 18th February 2006 to promote the release of their studio album "A Bigger Bang" as part of the Bigger Bang Tour.
Direction
Captures impossible scale without losing intimacy
Production
Free beach concert, zero crowd control chaos
Practical Effects
Jagger's actual stamina at 62
Director
J.B. de Oliveira
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The stage was so massive it had to be built on a floating platform and tugged into place.
This free show was Rio's apology for decades of the Stones being banned—Richards' 1977 heroin bust made them personae non grata for 29 years.
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