Let's Spend the Night Together (film)

Let's Spend the Night Together
Directed byHal Ashby
Produced byRonald L. Schwary
StarringThe Rolling Stones
Music byThe Rolling Stones
Distributed byEmbassy Pictures
Release date
  • February 11, 1983 (1983-02-11)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1,504,178[1]

Let's Spend the Night Together is a live concert film, documenting the Rolling Stones' 1981 North American Tour. It was directed by Hal Ashby, and released in cinemas in February 11, 1983.[2] It was filmed at the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey on 5–6 November 1981 and at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona on 13 December 1981.

Let's Spend the Night Together was subsequently released on VHS, Betamax, Laserdisc, VHD and CED Videodisc. It was released in New Zealand and Australia with the alternative title Time Is on Our Side on VHS and is currently available on DVD in Japan, Australia and New Zealand (as L.S.T.N.T from Studio Canal/Universal). The film was released as Rocks Off in Germany in 1982 with slightly different footage and an additional song, "When the Whip Comes Down" (following "Under My Thumb"), performed at Sun Devil Stadium. Lions Gate Entertainment released the film on DVD in the United States on 2 November 2010.

The live album Still Life, released in 1982, was recorded during the same tour.

  1. ^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 296. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada
  2. ^ "Let's Spend the Night Together (1983) - Financial Information". The Numbers.