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Springsteen & I

Springsteen & I

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"Springsteen & I" is a unique feature music documentary celebrating a rock 'n' roll icon: Bruce Springsteen. Working with the filmmakers, Springsteen's fans have helped create a film that reflects on their personal insights and experiences to explore what this timeless artist means to them. Their stories are at times touching, at times humorous, at times extraordinary and they all come from the heart. Combined with previously unseen archive footage of performances throughout Springsteen's career, this is a film by the fans and for the fans created with the full support of Bruce Springsteen. "This beautifully crafted film provides a unique insight into the powerful bond between a recording artist and those who connect so profoundly with his music." Ridley Scott, Executive Producer.

Threshold of a Dream: Live At the Isle of Wight Festival 1970

Threshold of a Dream: Live At the Isle of Wight Festival 1970

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In 1970 The Moody Blues were at their creative and commercial peak. After reinventing themselves from their R&B roots to a much more sophisticated sound, between 1967 and 1970 they released five albums, four of which hit the Top 5 in the UK. They enjoyed similar success in the USA where four of the albums hit the Top 20 and the other was just outside. At the end of August 1970, shortly after the release of their album ‘A Question Of Balance’, The Moody Blues took to the stage of the Isle Of Wight Festival in front of an audience estimated at over half a million. This film makes that performance available to be seen for the first time.

Tennessee Whiskey: The Dean Dillon Story

Tennessee Whiskey: The Dean Dillon Story

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Dean Dillon wrote over 30 #1 hit songs for the biggest artists in country music over the past four decades, yet most have never heard his name. George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Lee Ann Womack, Brooks and Dunn, Pam Tillis, Robert Earl Keen and the list goes on. Oh, and that song by Chris Stapleton, Tennessee Whiskey, yeah he wrote that too. Considered by many to be the last troubadour of songwriters, Dean is back on the road singing his songs and telling his stories in honky tonks and bars, stories behind the song that played when you had your first kiss, the first dance at your wedding, the one on the radio when your child was conceived. A legend in Nashville, yet relatively unknown outside of music city, Dean finally comes out of the shadows and shares his music, his life, and the stories behind the hits in this honest film about a man responsible for songs that shaped an era and helped to create some of music’s biggest rock stars.

Frank Zappa-Summer 82:When Zappa Came To Sicily

Frank Zappa-Summer 82:When Zappa Came To Sicily

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In the feature documentary, Summer 82 - When Zappa Came to Sicily, filmmaker and Zappa fan Salvo Cuccia tells the behind-the-scenes story of Frank Zappa's star-crossed concert in Palermo, Sicily, the wrap-up to a European tour that ended in public disturbances and police intervention. Cuccia had a ticket to the concert but never made it. Thirty years later, collaborating with Zappa's family, he re-creates the events through a combination of rare concert and backstage footage; photographs; anecdotes from family, band members, and concertgoers; and insights from Zappa biographer and friend Massimo Bassoli. The story is also a personal one, as Cuccia interweaves the story of Zappa's trip to Sicily with his own memories from that summer.

Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story

Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story

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David Bowie narrates this unprecedented celebration of the life and works of guitar virtuoso Mick Ronson - a rock hero virtually unknown despite his work with David Bowie and other greats such as Bob Dylan, Ian Hunter, Lulu and Lou Reed. With unprecedented access, great performance footage, and archival previously unreleased backstage footage.

N.W.A. & Easy-E: Kings of Compton

N.W.A. & Easy-E: Kings of Compton

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This inclusive documentary takes a unique look at the most influential West Coast rap group in history and inventors of gangster rap: N.W.A. The life and death of controversial rapper Eazy-E and the birth of the career of highly successful actor, movie producer and rapper Ice Cube and world renowned music producer Dr. Dre is documented through never-before-seen candid interviews, personal photos, and touching stories, giving insight into the real men behind the records.

I'd Know Him a Mile Off

I'd Know Him a Mile Off

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Get ready for a look at George Michael as you’ve never seen him before! I’d Know Him a Mile Off finds the U.K. pop legend gearing up for the 25Live Tour, his first global outing after many years. It’s a stunning portrayal of a master artist at work.

Hream

Hream

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Join Doug Hream Blunt, male nurse, and an adult music student, as he embarks on a world tour, partnering with young music students and professionals such as David Byrne and Peanut Butter Wolf for his first shows ever outside of Laguna Honda Hospital.

The Rolling Stones - Totally Stripped

The Rolling Stones - Totally Stripped

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Totally Stripped follows The Rolling Stones in 1995 as they recorded and performed stripped down versions of their classic songs in studio sessions in Tokyo and Lisbon and on stage in Amsterdam, Paris and London. The programme captures rehearsals, interviews, live performances and footage of the band in the studio to present the complete story of this unique period in the long history of The Rolling Stones. The newly edited version of the film contains previously unseen content and the performances are often very different interpretations of their songs.

Song of the South: Duane Allman and the Rise of the Allman Brothers

Song of the South: Duane Allman and the Rise of the Allman Brothers

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In the early to mid 1970s a handful of bands from the Deep South reinvigorated American popular music by fusing blues, country and rock 'n' roll styles into a new and unique form . But the man who had sparked this renaissance and who had struggled to gain acceptance in an industry firmly established in the North and out West, was by then just a memory. Duane Allman, the lead guitarist and driving force behind Southern Rock pioneers The Allman Brothers Band, lived a tragically short life, but during his brief career he changed music forever... This film looks at Allman's life, work and musical output, from his early days in Florida to his influential session work in Muscle Shoals, his monumental collaboration with Eric Clapton in Derek & The Dominos and the inimitable virtuosity with which he set the Allman Brothers Band alight. Featuring contributions from; the men who forged the Allman's and the Dominos' sound, engineers & producers the Albert Brothers; Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section founding members, David Hood & Jimmy Johnson; former co-members of Duane & Greg's late 1960s group, The Hour Glass, Paul Hornsby & Pete Carr; Allman Brothers road manager between 1970 & 1975, Willie Perkins; Allman biographers, Randy Poe (Skydog) & Scott Freeman (Midnight Riders); band archivist and curator at The Allman Brothers Band Museum in Macon, GA, E.J. Devokaitis, and a host of other friends, colleagues and close at hand music writers. The film also includes rare footage of Duane and the band, exclusive and archive interviews, and numerous previously unseen photographs, many from private collections.

Llyn Foulkes: One Man Band

Llyn Foulkes: One Man Band

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During the seven years chronicled in the film, artist and musician Llyn Foulkes creates, destroys, and recreates a pair of large-scale, three-dimensional paintings, one that costs him his marriage, while trying to keep afloat in the fickle art market. With interviews from veterans of the 1960s Los Angeles art scene such as Dennis Hopper and George Herms, the film reconstructs Foulkes’s uncompromising, up-and-down career as he was kicked out of the legendary Ferus Gallery and walked away from a successful career as an L.A. pop artist. Structured like one of Foulkes’s constantly reworked paintings, the film tracks his artistic struggles, ending as he is at last rediscovered by the international art world at age 77. With music written and performed by Foulkes on a massive, fanciful, self-invented musical instrument he calls “The Machine,” Llyn Foulkes One Man Band is an intimate portrait of an artist battling his own demons as well as the perceived demons of the art world.

The 78 Project

The 78 Project

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The 78 Project is on a journey across America to make one-of-a-kind 78rpm records with musicians in their hometowns using a 1930s Presto direct-to-disc recorder. With one microphone. With one blank disc. In one 3-minute take. Along the way, a kaleidoscope of technologists, historians and craftsmen from every facet of field recording – Grammy-winning producers, 78 collectors, curators from the Library of Congress and Smithsonian – provide insights and history. In Tennessee, Mississippi, California, Louisiana, the folk singers, punk rockers, Gospel and Cajun singers in the film share their lives through intimate performances, and find in that adventure a new connection to our cultural legacy.

Punk Like Me

Punk Like Me

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Carne Asada, a punk rock mariachi band (who are neither punks, mariachis, or a real band), scam their way onto the Vans Warped Tour. Punk Like Me is an award-winning documentary about following your teenage dreams, even if it's 20 years too late.