for those who never gave up their turntables
MOVIES & TELEVISION collects pieces about rock music used in movies (such as Easy Rider), or movies about rock music or musicians, including the low-budget rock & roll films of the ’50s.
Except for Elvis Presley’s legendary special for NBC in 1968, rock music never really took advantage of the medium of television until MTV came along in the ’80s. Nor did television take advantage of rock: why weren’t they clamoring to do specials for the Stones or Elton or Springsteen in the ’70s?
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A QUORA READER asked me to answer the question, “What is something that needs to be said about Paul McCartney?” This is both an open-ended question and, for those of us who will go to our graves in awe of Beatlepaul but will probably go there also still trying to come to grips with Wingpaul, it’s also a loaded question. [Continue reading]
This article has been rewritten and published as Looking at the Foresight of “Wild in the Streets” Fifty Years Later
Just wanted to recommend a trio of movies connected by gorgeous music to enjoy on a trio of nights, preferably one after the other. These are not movie reviews, merely recommendations: three nights three movies excellent music . . .
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First night: Mao’s Last Dancer is an Australian film directed by Bruce Beresford (2009) and based on dancer Li Cunxin’s autobiography of the same title. [Continue reading]
IN THE EARLY ’70s, I discovered that when a British fan bought a copy of the Beatles’ 1965 album HELP! on Parlophone in the UK, he got a Beatles album with fourteen new Beatles recordings. When an American fan bought the same title on Capitol in the US, he got an “original soundtrack album” with only seven new Beatles recordings! [Continue reading]