Rolling Stones' 'Ed Sullivan' Appearances Coming to DVD

Ed Sullivan with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones on the set of the Ed Sullivan Show.

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All of the Rolling Stones' appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show in the Sixties are about to be released for the first time on DVD later this year. The set will be issued in two forms – an abridged version titled Four Ed Sullivan Shows Starring the Rolling Stones, due out on October 4th, and a deluxe package called Six Ed Sullivan Shows Starring the Rolling Stones, in stores on November 1st.

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The performances collected in the set include some of the band's best-known hits, from "Time Is On My Side" in their first appearance on the show in 1964 through renditions of "Gimme Shelter" and "Honky Tonk Women" from their final appearance on November of 1969. The episodes will be presented on DVD in their entirety, so the Stones footage will exist alongside performances by Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Tom Jones, Phyllis Diller, Rodney Dangerfield and the Muppets.

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Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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