“The Rolling Stones: Let’s Spend the Night Together”, Original Release Japanese Movie Poster 1983, B2 Size (51 x 73cm) H261A
Sale price$150.00
This is an original Japanese B2 theatrical poster printed in 1983 for Let’s Spend the Night Together, the live concert documentary featuring The Rolling Stones. Directed by Hal Ashby, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker behind Harold and Maude, Shampoo, and Coming Home, the film captures the band during their record-breaking 1981 North American Tour.
Film background Released in 1983, Let’s Spend the Night Together documents The Rolling Stones at the height of their early-1980s stadium era. The film combines footage from indoor performances at the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with the vast outdoor show at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. Using a large multi-camera setup and high-quality live audio recording, Hal Ashby presents the band as a full-scale theatrical event rather than a conventional concert film.
The film features Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, and Bill Wyman, performing a set drawn from classic Stones material and then-recent work, including songs such as “Under My Thumb,” “Let’s Spend the Night Together,” “Shattered,” “Time Is on My Side,” “Beast of Burden,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” and “Satisfaction.”
Poster design A vivid and energetic Japanese theatrical design, dominated at the top by a huge image of Mick Jagger projected across the concert stage, with the band performing below before a vast crowd. The poster captures the scale and spectacle of The Rolling Stones’ stadium-era concerts, with bright stage lighting, saturated colour, and a strong sense of live performance atmosphere.
Across the centre, the large red The Rolling Stones title dominates the design, with Let’s Spend the Night Together written beneath in flowing orange script. The lower section includes performance imagery of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, a printed track list at left, and Japanese promotional copy describing the band as arriving with demonic rock-and-roll force: 「地獄からやって来た悪魔の化身たち!! いま、世界最大のロックンロールの幕があく！」 — roughly, “They have come from hell, incarnations of rock-and-roll demons! Now the curtain rises on the world’s greatest rock and roll!”
The lower branding also includes the Rolling Stones 20 anniversary-style mark, tying the poster to the band’s twenty-year legacy at the time of release.
Rarity and significance Original Japanese posters for major rock concert films are increasingly collectible, especially examples connected to artists of this scale. This B2 is especially appealing for its bold Japanese layout, large Mick Jagger concert imagery, and its connection to The Rolling Stones’ early-1980s stadium period. It is a strong piece for collectors of music posters, concert films, The Rolling Stones, Japanese film paper, and 1980s rock culture.
Condition Very Good / Excellent. Please review the photos—they show the exact poster for sale.
