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| Mama Mia! |
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If there
is one film you have to go and see this summer then Mamma Mia is the
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| The Commitments |
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In my humble opinion, ‘The
Commitments’ is probably the best music film ever made, and that’s a
hard thing for an ardent rocker to admit as the film is all about
‘soul’....... |
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The Beatles -
Yellow Submarine |
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Although not involving the actual
Beatles this is a unique story featuring Beatles songs, and is an
unusual cartoon format about a place called Pepperland, a parallel
world you could say in some respects. It features some weird and
wonderful characters, where the Beatles take on the Blue Meanies and
save the day. It's all very sixties with a small cameo appearance of
the band at the end......
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| Tommy |
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Don’t ask me how he did it, but one
of my band of 14 year old mates managed to get tickets for the
premier night of the 1975 rock opera ‘Tommy’ at the Bristol Odeon in
Broadmead. Not that we knew it was the premier night of course, and
we must have looked well out of place sat between the dinner jackets
and bow ties, dressed all in our best denim jackets and basket ball
boots. Perhaps they thought we had been invited as local rock stars
or something (fat chance)......... |
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| Slade In Flame |
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Can I say, right from the outset, as
prefix for this review, that on BBC4’s ‘Pop on Trial’ with Stewart
Mahoney, the 70’s were voted by the panel after a long debate as the
most influential decade for popular music........ |
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| Almost Famous |
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Mega successful writer/director
Cameron Crowe gives us a glimpse of what his early career as a
fledgling rock journalist was like in this film, which for me ranks
as one of my all time favourites...... |
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| Rockstar |
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If you're a fan of hard rock or heavy
metal you'll love this film. Yeah, it scores high on the
cheese-o-meter, but the music definitely makes up for that..... |
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| Control -
Ian Curtis biopic |
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2007 has certainly been the year of the rock biopic,
what with the Joe Strummer film 'The Furture Is Unwritten' aswell as
Scott Walker's portrayal in '30th Century Man'. But that's not all.
If, like me, you're a big fan of late 70's legends Joy Division,
then I dare say you'll have been eagerly awaiting the release of the
film 'Control' which opened at cinemas in October....... |
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| The Future is Unwritten - Joe
Strummer biopicI |
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I think Joe Strummer would have been
pleased with 'The Future Is Unwritten'. Director Julien Temple's
latest biopic has portrayed Joe as a 'people's person' which of
course, he truly was, and never one to let his success ruin his
affection for other people....... |
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This is Spinal Tap - The best Rock film ever? |
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For
the few of you that have never seen This is Spinal Tap, here is a
brief description. The film is a spoof ‘Rockumentary’ about a
fictitious band called Spinal Tap. An aging rock group who’s
popularity is declining on their second tour of America in 1982 find
difficulties as gigs are cancelled........ |
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