1. Opening, 2. A Murder, 3. Finding A Partner, 4. A Mission, 5.A Trouble, 6. Slate, 7. The Second Guy, 8. Burying The Body, 9. Men Couldn t Own Her.

This new European DVD of Brian Jones' film, A Degree Of Murder, presents the film from a British copy. No Japanese subtitles though and a good color version of the film with nice soundtrack (the most important thing to Stones fans) with good high volume audio that was composed on September 5^th ,1966 at London IBC Studios by Brian Jones who assembled a small combo to help him cut tracks. Nicky Hopkins (piano) and Jimmy Page (guitar) together with Peter Gosling (keyboards and background vocals) and Mike Leander (Orchestra conductor) are for sure featured while it is dubious if other players took part in the sessions as Brian Jones said once that 'some of the boys helped' while Bill Wyman said he wasn't there; we could think that Charlie Watts could have helped but the back cover names Kenney Jones. Producer and engineer Glyn Johns was on board, even if his personal relationship with Brian wasn't very good. Obviously Jones is said to have played many instruments (sitar, organ, dulcimer, recorder, clarinet, harpsichord, harmonica,banjo, autoharp) while there is also a rumour that Mick Jagger helped in the production.

Recording went on whenever possible through February 1967 (on the 11^th B. Jones was at London’s Olympic Studios) while the film itself was premiered in Germany on April 19^th 1967 in Munich with the German title Mord und Totschlag, directed by Volker Schlondorf. The story of the film is the story of a girl (Anita Pallenberg) who accidentally kills her boyfriend with his gun and then hires two men to hide the corpse. The script is sometimes hilarious: the girl accidentally shoots her boyfriend and… puts him in bed with a pill to recover! On April 24^th at the Cannes Film Festival, Pallenberg and both Brian Jones and Keith Richards were present although after a brief discussion with Anita, Jones abandoned the Festival earlier. At that time Anita had already switched from Jones to Richards as boyfriend and that probably contributed to Jones personal drama and downfall.

This release is a good job, images are quite clear since this is a fairly good copy from an original UK print, with the Soundtrack has music that resembles at times some Stones 60s songs like "Sitting On A Fence" or "Ruby Tuesday" while the overall music feel brings to mind the albums from the Andrew Oldham Orchestra, except for some blues instrumental. That was the problem with Brian Jones at that stage of his career,as he wasn’t able to make original music, while very good in dressing songs with his multi instrumental playing ability. No Soundtrack album was ever released by Universal and this makes this film somehow legendary as it shows the only music self made by Brian Jones to have been recorded, apart from the Moroccan ethic stuff that came out on the Joujouka LP and this is certified by the added remarks on the front cover: Brian's Only Recorded Legacy. This DVD comes in a Gatefold Digipack whose tray gets out when pulled, but it does not unfold as most Digipack do. This is a better version of the film than the recent release by IMP.