00:04I've been a fan of the Rolling Stones since I was a little kid.
00:07I remember going to sleep, hearing my mom play out in the other room, Sticky Fingers.
00:13I think it was then that certain albums just filtered into my head.
00:17I got more into them when Some Girls came out.
00:20These two albums are the first Stones albums that I really, on my own, resonated with.
00:27For me, I mean, music has been everything.
00:30Hello, Alex. So on behalf of Visit London, we'd like to let you know that you've been chosen to come
00:35to London.
00:36That sounds amazing.
00:38I'm going to fly to London.
00:41I didn't know that exhibitionism was something that was even happening.
00:45This is a retrospective of 54 years of the Rolling Stones.
00:51Liverpool has the Beatles. Memphis has Elvis.
00:54The Rolling Stones are London.
00:56Hey, Alex.
00:57Hey.
00:58Good to see you. I'm Paul Sexton.
00:59I'm your Stones guide for the day.
01:01We're in Soho.
01:01This is an area with an awful lot of Rolling Stones history about it.
01:04We've got a record store called Sounds of the Universe.
01:06It's where the Stones did their very first rehearsals.
01:09This is the first Stones album that you were talking about.
01:11The first album from 1964, recorded at Regent Sound Studios.
01:14The Stones really put this place on the map because once they recorded here,
01:17of course, loads of other bands wanted to record here.
01:19Can you imagine these guys have played in one band for over 50 years?
01:25Ladies and gentlemen, exhibitionism.
01:2850 years in the Rolling Stones.
01:30The artwork, the posters, seeing mock-up for some girls and how that gradually became what it was.
01:38Keith's guitars and Brian's instruments and Charlie's set.
01:42Seeing various places that they played and recorded.
01:49So this was when Sympathy for the Devil was recorded right here.
01:52Right here.
01:52This is what is now back to being the Olympic cinema.
01:56To watch these guys play off of each other, it's the ultimate experience.
02:01They have this shorthand between each other.
02:05You want to do another one?
02:09I got to mix some of the stems to rocks off and that was phenomenal.
02:18Get along with a shoe shine you'd never hear on the record.
02:21That's beautiful.
02:22It's given me an idea of London through the eyes of the Rolling Stones.
02:31Seeing what it would be like to be looking into the studio that they played and recorded.
02:36It's amazing.
02:38I wish I was there.
02:42I have a surprise for you.
02:44What?
02:44I have a surprise for you.
02:46All right.
02:47How are you guys?
02:48Oh, wow, man.
02:51How are you?
02:52Nice to see you.
02:52Hey, wow.
02:53Alex, nice to meet you, man.
02:55Nice to meet you, Alex.
02:55Alex.
02:56Alex.
02:56Wow.
02:57This is absolutely amazing.
02:58This is absolutely amazing, hey.
03:00He usually sits behind those things.
03:02In fact, we could all get in there now.
03:05What the hell?
03:05It's going to sound a little silly, but I mean, for a moment I felt like I was a member
03:09of the wrong
03:10stars.
03:10Yeah, but they have the eggs and stuff.
03:13I'm happy to have a good journey back to New York.
03:17I don't want to go back.
03:18I don't want to go back.
03:19It's a day of you, don't you?
03:20It's a day of you, don't you?
03:21It's a day of you, don't you?
03:21Good to see you, mate.
03:23All right, I suppose I can die now.
03:25I mean, it's not every day that you get to meet your idols.
03:30In a week full of great experiences, being able to actually meet them was off the charts
03:37cool.
03:37It's a moment I'm never going to forget.
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