Tom Waits - Under Review: 1983-2006
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An 80 minute documentary film which looks at this extraordinary musician and performer's music from 1983 through 2006. After Waits' marriage to Katherine Brennan in 1980, his music became more experimental, through album after album during the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s, Waits stunned his audience time and again. This program looks again at these records, and the man who made them.
All You Need Is Love 116 - Whatever Gets You Through the Night: Glitter Rock
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David Bowie, Kiss, Elton John - with these musical giants came a transformation of rock and roll. Slick costumes, garish theatricality, and extensively produced sounds contrast the raw sounds that had previously dominated the airwaves. Is glitter rock a sign of the death of rock and roll?
All You Need Is Love 115 - All Along the Watchtower
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Tony Palmer takes us through the riots, the power, the inspiration, and the chaos of The Rolling Stones era music and the infamous San Francisco concert at the Fillmore.
The Smiths: Under Review
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The Smiths - Under Review is a 90 minute documentary film covering the full story and music of The Smiths. It features rare musical performances, videos, TV appearances, interviews with the band, and expert comment and review from an esteemed panel of experts. This film is the first of its kind in documenting the history of one of the most important band of the 1980s. It includes contributions from; producers Stephen Street, John Porter and Kenny Jones; Smiths fifth member Craig Gannon; Author of Saint Morrissey Mark Simpson; Journalists Paul Morley, Nigel Williamson, Jake Kennedy and John Robb; Factory Records supreme Tony Wilson; and a host of other names.
TV Party: Color Show
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TV Party's final season was broadcast live in color on Channel J, a public access "commercial station." TV Party tried to pay the extra expense of going to color by selling ads to downtown clubs and underground record companies. "Everything here is for sale," Glenn announces. Desperation is in the air. Glenn is missing a tooth and needs a haircut. The party is spunky but the cast is depleted and possibly drugged. The TV Party theme, music by Walter Steding and rap by Glenn O'Brien opens the show. The show features the TV Party Orchestra, with Lenny Ferrari and guitarist Karen Geniece joined by Charles Rocket on heavy metal accordion, played through a stack of Marshall amps and an array of guitar pedals. Rocket had just been fired from Saturday Night Live for saying "fuck" live on air, and his performance of "Wild Thing" is a triumph of post-modern drollness. He actually gets screaming feedback out of his squeezebox. Jeffrey Lee Pierce of Gun Club shows up with a broken guitar, but borrows one and does a soulful Robert Johnson country blues. The half Japanese New York band Eel Dogs plays. Lothar Manteuffel, one of Germany's top new wavers, ends the show jamming with Rocket on one of the latter's compositions "Why Can't I Get Laid." Who knows what he's singing in German.
All You Need Is Love 112 - Go Down, Moses! Songs of War and Protest
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Youth and rebellion are inextricably linked to rock music of the 60s. More than a aesthetic, its music has a strong influence over culture and politics. In this powerful episode, Tony Palmer explores the role of music as protest, and propaganda.
Oasis - Morning Glory: Classic Album Under Review
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Oasis - (What's The Story') Morning Glory: A Classic Album Under Review is a documentary film which revisits and re-assesses this powerhouse of a record. With the use of archive footage, long forgotten videos and contributions from those around at the time, this program uncovers why the band's second album is arguably their most satisfying. Features include live and studio performances of tracks from Morning Glory, reviewed by a panel of esteemed experts, band interviews, rarely seen photographs and archive footage. Bonus feature; 'When Oasis Met Blur' - the full recording from the moment the Britpop heavyweights met at the same radio station in 1995.
AC/DC - Classic Album Under Review: Back In Black
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This film documentary is the ultimate review and critical analysis of AC/DCs most influential and successful album. With the entire album dissected track by track, and with rare footage, band interviews and live performances all under the gaze of our panel of esteemed experts, this could be the most thorough exploration of this extraordinary band. It includes: Comment, Criticism and Insight from; engineer for Back In Black and Highway To Hell sessions, Tony Platt; rock journalist, Total Rock FM DJ and AC/DC expert, Malcolm Dome; AC/DC biographer Paul Stenning, Classic Rock magazines Jerry Ewing; BBC 6 Music DJ Jane Gazzo, AC/DC author Clinton Walker and more.
Syd Barrett - Under Review
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Syd Barrett - Under Review features rare live and studio performances from this hugely influential and legendary musician, interspersed with the independent review and criticism from a panel of esteemed experts. These include; Melody Maker contributor during the 1960s and early champion of Syd Barrett, Chris Welch ; Barrett biographer and all round expert, David Parker ; Uncut Magazine's features editor, Nigel Williamson; former Soft Machine bassist who backed Syd on Madcap Laughs, Hugh Hopper; Total Rock DJ and journalist, Malcolm Dome and many more. Features rarely seen promo films, interview footage with Syd and other Floyd members, TV clips and more.
Green Day - Under Review 1995-2000 The Middle Years
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Rightly regarded as the founding fathers of pop-punk, Green Day are also lauded nowadays for their newfound political leanings. Between 1995 and 2000, the band made three of their most catchy, melodic and finely crafted albums. This DVD features live and studio performances by Green Day, rare interviews, and a host of other features.
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