The Rolling Stones — Time Is On My Side (Live) - OFFICIAL PROMO

JUL 01 1982 · 12:00

The Rolling Stones — Time Is On My Side (Live) - OFFICIAL PROMO (1982) Director: Rudi Dolezal & Hannes Rossacher Era: Early MTV Era (1982) - Peak early-video-age live promo, coinciding with the Stones' 1981 American Tour and the Still Life album campaign, bridging pre-MTV concert film tradition with the newly dominant music video format. High curatorial value as a confirmed DoRo Productions artifact documenting one of the most commercially significant live-album campaigns in early-80s rock history. The video bridges the concert-film tradition and the MTV promo era, preserving the Stones' 1981 arena-tour staging. Its brightness, contrast, and color-temperature metrics are characteristic of practical-lit multi-camera arena capture, making it a useful benchmark for technical study of pre-HD concert video aesthetics. Context: Released in 1982 as a promotional clip for the Still Life live album, this video documents the Rolling Stones at the height of their arena-rock dominance following the massively successful 1981 North American tour. The song itself is a landmark of the British Invasion: the Stones' cover of Jerry Ragovoy's composition (via Irma Thomas) became the band's first US Top 10 hit in 1964, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. Revisiting the song as a live single in 1982 served as a deliberate act of heritage branding — positioning the Stones as both contemporary superstars and custodians of foundational rock history at a moment when MTV was redefining what a promotional music clip could be. Director notes: This official promo is documented on IMDb (tt8797872) as a 1982 music video directed by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher. The performance footage is sourced from the Rolling Stones' 1981 American arena tour, recorded for and released on the live album Still Life (American Concert 1981), issued 1 June 1982. 'Time Is on My Side' was released as the album's follow-up single to 'Going to a Go-Go', charting at No. 62 in the UK. The promo served to support both the single and the Still Life album's promotional campaign during the band's concurrent 1982 European tour. Dolezal and Rossacher's DoRo Productions was among the most prominent European music video production companies of the era, known for high-quality, performance-centric and documentary approaches.