Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight
Why do movies about the music biz so rarely work? A look at the good, the bad and the ugly of rock cinema, biopics and indulgent fictions.
Tag: Pink Floyd
Punk Floyd: An Ageing Punk ‘Tribute’ to Pink Floyd
A collection of punk bands from the late 1970s come together to bury the hatchet with the once-hated Pink Floyd. Apparently.
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The Library Music Familiarity Curse
The unexpected problem with library music is that it allows familiar tunes to suddenly turn up in the most unexpected of places.
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The Most Successful Robot In Chart History
The musical stylings of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s Marvin the Paranoid Android.
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My Life With Kate Bush
As a new generation discovers Kate Bush, your editor looks back on his own discovery of and obsession with Britain’s most singular rock star.
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Dick Clark’s Open Letter To The Older Generation
Middle-aged Dick Clark tries and fails to bridge the generation gap in this odd 1967 recording.
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Negative Reactions
The compelling awfulness of the YouTube Reaction Video.
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What Is A Happening? Man Alive Investigates The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream
The BBC TV documentary exploring the rise of the psychedelic underground in 1967.
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The Counter Culture Meets Eighties Neo-Noir – Donald Cammell’s White Of The Eye
The maverick director’s collision of style, slasher and psychedelia remains a seminal moment in American cinema.
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Welcome To The Duplication Machine
We scratch our heads over Still Wish You Were Here, an efficient but entirely pointless recreation of Pink Floyd’s masterpiece Wish You Were Here.
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Granny Takes A Trip With The Purple Gang
The hippest shop of Swinging London and the unlikely pop song that it inspired.
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Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd And Yoko Ono Battle The Bootlegs In A 1971 Documentary
The new threat of illegal live recordings explored in a 1971 documentary that includes shameless criminality and John Lennon hiding in a bag.
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