I Dream of Wires
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I Dream of Wires is a documentary about the rise, fall and rebirth of the machine that shaped electronic music: the modular synthesizer. Exploring the synthesizer's history, the film reveals how innovators like Robert Moog developed the first room-sized prototypes. It shows the meteoric rise in popularity of the synthesizer - later made obsolete by a flood of cheap knockoffs. And it tracks the phenomenal resurgence of the high-end modular synthesizers being used today by a whole new generation of musicians. Musicians including Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), Gary Numan, Carl Craig, Morton Subotnick and Vince Clarke (Erasure) talk about their passion for the modular synthesizer, and how it influencestheir music, while new EDM artists including Clark, James Holden and Factory Floor discuss why they've embraced its sound and physicality.
Circle Jerks: Live at the House of Blues
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Shot with multiple Panasonic DVX100 cameras, this blistering House of Blues set captures the Circle Jerks at full force. Featuring Keith Morris (ex-Black Flag), Greg Hetson (ex-Redd Kross, later Bad Religion), and Chuck Biscuits, the band tears through 25 tracks spanning their career.
Pearl Jam - Under Review
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Since bursting out of Seattle with 1991's multi-platinum selling 'Ten', Pearl Jam have become one of the finest rock bands in the world today. Eddie Vedder & Co. set about reconstructing their sound while campaigning against the more unjust aspects of the music industry. After 20 years Pearl Jam refuse to rest on their laurels, constantly exploring new musical directions while remaining as fiercely loyal to their fans as ever. Interviews with the band, contributions from their closest allies and from the finest rock writers, rare and classic performance footage, and many other features make this the finest documentary in existence on this most iconic of rock acts.
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.
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?
The Weird World of Blowfly
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This film explores both sides of this hilarious and controversial artist, providing a rare, inside peek at the infamous linguist's daily life. Now 69-years-old, with a gold-spangled superhero costume and a catalog of the world's raunchiest tunes, Blowfly tours the world, still struggling for success and recognition after 50 years of making music.
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.
Leonard Cohen - Under Review: 1934-1977
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Leonard Cohen - Under Review 1935 -1977 is a 90-minute documentary film which reviews the poetry, music, performances, and career of one of contemporary Canada's greatest artists. Features include musical performances of Leonard Cohen reviewed by our team of esteemed experts, obscure footage, rare interviews, and scarcely seen photographs of and with Leonard and review, comment, criticism and insight from; official Cohen biographer, Ira Nadel; Leonards regular guitarist and band leader, Ron Cornelius; producer on the New Skin For The Old Ceremony and New Positions albums, John Lissauer, Cohens backing vocalist, Ronee Blakley and many more.
All You Need Is Love 110 - Good Times: Rhythm and Blues
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The raw honesty and danceable beats of rhythm and blues drew executives by the flock. During segregation in America, this form has a fascinating and intensely influential relationship with white American pop culture.
Jack Bruce: Rope Ladder to the Moon
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Only on Night Flight Plus: Music filmmaker par excellence Tony Palmer crafts an intimate and deeply personal portrait of British bassist (and former Cream member) Jack Bruce. In 1969, Bruce released Songs for a Tailor, a jazz-oriented LP of original compositions. Filmed at the same time, this 55-minute documentary traces his journey from the Gorbals, through Cream, to his island home of Sanda.
Sandy Denny - Under Review
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This documentary film reviews the music and career one of Britains finest female vocalists and songwriters: Sandy Denny. She is revered deeply amongst fans of folk music and the singer-songwriter genre, but has never received universal acclaim for her tremendous talent. This program attempts to redress this imbalance and reveal why she remains such an inspiration to so many. The features include obscure footage and rarely seen photographs, musical performances reviewed and re-assessed by a team of esteemed experts, and live and studio recordings of Sandy Denny classics, reappraised by our panel of contributors.
David Bowie - The Calm Before The Storm
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The definitive '69 to '71 era David Bowie documentary film. his film documents Bowie's career from the start, but focuses most notably on the period during which he made his second album (initially, simply called David Bowie but later re-christened Space Oddity to avoid confusion with his debut), his third, the critically acclaimed Man Who Sold The World and the pinnacle of his pre-Ziggy career, Hunky Dory.
All You Need Is Love 117 - Imagine
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Tony Palmer's epic series concludes by looking at the role of spirituality and religion in pop music and why many artists fled the big stage for a quieter life.
All You Need Is Love 107 - Always Chasin' Rainbows
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Tony Palmer's series studies Tin Pan Alley, the publishers and songwriters who turned music into big business by making records to order.
All You Need Is Love 111 - Making Moonshine: Country Music
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Maligned by the rock and pop industries, country music nonetheless command a place in the history of popular music. From the settlement of the west to the powerhouse of Nashville, this episode explores its deep and compelling history.
Frank Zappa - Summer '82
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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. The film looks at the rise and heyday of Frank Zappa's career as an innovative composer and libertarian provocateur, and includes tales of the relationship of a busy father with his children. While in Sicily for the concert, Zappa visited Partinico, the birthplace of his father and grandfather; and in the film's warm and loving coda, three of Zappa's children, Dweezil, Moon Diva and his wife Gail, return to meet their relatives there for the first time.
U2 Achtung Baby: Classic Album Under Review
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This DVD contains the ultimate review and critical analysis of U2's most pivotal album. It offers a previously unobtainable level of insight into the band during the recording of their most dynamic and well respected album. Via the use of live footage, long forgotten videos and the review, criticism and insight of a panel of highly opinionated experts, this package delivers the finest documentary film yet to emerge on Dublins favorite sons. Achtung Baby was the album that fired U2 into the 90s when the four-piece dramatically overhauled their traditional approach to songwriting.
All You Need Is Love 109 - Swing The Music!
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Tony Palmer's 70s music show examines the history and impact of swing. With intriguing thoughts from Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Benny Goodman.
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti: A Classic Album Under Review
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An expert analysis of Zep's most revered record with rare and classic performances, interviews, seldom seen photographs and contributions from those involved. This DVD is a documentary film about the build-up, making, release, and - crucially - music contained on this most revered of albums. With the aid of rare and classic performances, scarce interviews, seldom seen photographs and contributions from those involved in the making of the record - plus the review and critique from a panel of Zeppelin experts - this program finally lifts the lid on what many believe to be Led Zep's very finest offering. With contributions from; the album's engineer, Ron Nevison; former Yardbird, Chris Dreja; Swansong recording artist, Maggie Bell; author of The Rough Guide to Led Zeppelin, Nigel Williamson; Tight But Loose editor, Dave Lewis; Classic Rock Magazine's Malcolm Dome; renowned guitar tutor and author, Rikky Rooksby and Robert Plant biographer, Neil Daniels. This is the complete story behind what what Rolling Stone called "their Tommy, Beggar's Banquet and Sgt. Pepper rolled into one".
Kate Bush - Under Review
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This 90-minute film reviews the music and career of one of the world's most influential performers, singers and songwriters; arguably the most unique female artist ever. It includes rare musical performances never available before on DVD. It also includes obscure footage, rare interviews and photographs of and with Kate Bush from all periods of her astonishing career. The film features: rarely seen promo films; interviews with Kate and with colleagues, producers, musicians and friends; TV clips; location shots and a host of other features.
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.

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