Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things (2019), Deep Blues (1991), The Sparks Brothers (2021), Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend (2011), United Nation: Three Decades of Drum & Bass (2020), Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who (2007), If I Leave Here Tomorrow: A Film About Lynyrd Skynyrd (2018), Lemmy (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Music Interviews movies.
Storyline: A profile of the singer's personal life.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, jazz, biography, historical archive, music legend, cultural impact, musical innovation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While some successful blues acts sell out arenas and tour around the world, many of the best blues artists remain relatively unknown, playing in small clubs or, in some cases, just in their own yards. Filmmaker Robert Mugge and music scholar Robert Palmer take an enthusiastic look at these lesser-known blues artists, showcasing incredible music from talented players who have never been signed to major labels and generally have not received the recognition they have deserved.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, american south, oral history, social margins, music history, music interviews, music exploration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Growing up in the '60s, Los Angeles brothers Ron and Russell got by on a heavy diet of popcorn matinees and pop music until the spotlight of school talent shows illuminated their way on a musical journey as the Sparks and spawned 25 studio albums. Edgar Wright's vision brings five decades of invention to life through animations and interviews, digging deeply into the band's rich, career-spanning archival.—Sundance Film Festival
Plot Keywords: music documentary, band history, experimental music, music legends, creative process, musical influence, cult following ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on footage shot in the early seventies and lost for more than thirty years, NAACP IMAGE AWARD winner Esther Anderson takes us on a journey to Jamaica and into 56 HOPE ROAD, Kingston, to see and hear the young BOB MARLEY before he was famous. The film shows us the WAILERS' first rehearsal, when the idea of a Jamaican supergroup like the BEATLES or the STONES was still just a dream. We sit in on the launch of their international career with "GET UP STAND UP", "I SHOT THE SHERIFF", and the "BURNIN'" and "CATCH A FIRE" albums that brought to the world REGGAE music and RASTA consciousness together as one, starting a revolution that would change rock music and contemporary culture.—Esther Anderson
Plot Keywords: music documentary, music history, cultural impact, social change, classic songs, songwriting, music industry ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: EDM was born out of the Drum and Bass movement, which began in the early 1990's. The scene and its many style permutations have survived and thrived, and heavily influences Grime and the modern EDM arena.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, electronic music, music history, dj culture, underground music, music festival, musicians ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This epic documentary reveals the legendary rock band The Who in unrivaled detail. Spanning four decades of their explosive and innovative rock music, the film includes rare and never-before-seen concert and archive footage from the group's humble beginnings to their meteoric rise to world stardom. This in-depth narrative offers extensive interviews with each member of the band as well as testimonials from other rock music icons about the influence of The Who on their own music and careers.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, band history, classic rock, music history, music interviews, behind the scenes, music influence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This authorized documentary will explore the music and backstory of the legendary American band. With the songs from the first six Skynyrd albums driving the narration, the film focuses on the story of frontman Ronnie Van Zant - his upbringing, his roots, his work ethic and his contradictory persona as both as a mythic Southern rock poet and notorious boozed-up brawler, as well as the relationships between his friends and fellow founding members Gary Rossington and Allen Collins, along with later bandmates Ed King and Artimus Pyle.—CMT
Plot Keywords: music documentary, rock music, band history, biography, music legend, classic rock, music interviews ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary on the life and career of revered heavy-metal musician Lemmy Kilmister.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, rock music, musician biography, music history, independent film, behind the scenes, music culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to begin cutting songs for his new record company. Over a fourteen year period they were the heartbeat on every hit from Motown's Detroit era. By the end of their phenomenal run, this unheralded group of musicians had played on more number ones hits than the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Elvis and the Beatles combined - which makes them the greatest hit machine in the history of popular music. They called themselves the Funk Brothers. Forty-one years after they played their first note on a Motown record and three decades since they were all together, the Funk Brothers reunited back in Detroit to play their music and tell their unforgettable story, with the help of archival footage, still photos, narration, interviews, re-creation scenes, 20 Motown master tracks, and twelve new live performances of Motown classics with the Brothers backing up contemporary performers.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: music documentary, music history, oral history, music legends, music influence, music interviews, classic songs ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: St. Louis, Missouri. For Chuck Berry's 60th birthday, Keith Richards assembles a pickup band of Robert Cray, Joey Spampinato, Eric Clapton, himself, and longtime pianist Johnnie Johnson. Joined on stage by Etta James, Linda Ronstadt and Julian Lennon, Berry performs his classic rock songs. His abilities as a composer, lyricist, singer, musician and entertainer are on display and, in behind-the-scenes interviews, are discussed by Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, the Everly Brothers, Bruce Springsteen and others. There's even a rarity for Berry, a rehearsal. Archival footage from the early 1950s and a duet with John Lennon round out this portrait of a master.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: music documentary, concert, biography, music history, 1980s, american film, classic rock ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bruce Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town," released in 1978, was three years in the making, 10 songs chosen from 70 written and rehearsed during that period. Using archival footage from the studio and contemporary interviews with Springsteen, the E Street Band, and those who were in the control room, the film presents a portrait of an artist driving himself to capture working-class life with a rough and raw sound that felt more like a live performance than a studio recording.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: music documentary, rock music, behind the scenes, songwriting, american music, music history, musician biography ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: the Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, guitar, rock music, musicians, creative process, improvisation, music history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A look at the bands from the alternative pop music scene in Glasgow from the mid 80's to early 90's.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, youth culture, independent music, band history, underground music, cultural impact, music interviews ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary about the making of the first Sting album. Not only is some time spent in the studio (much of was recorded in an interesting mansion), but there is also some interesting information about what was going on in the lives of the members of his band during that time, including Sting's child being born.—<sboone@osiris.ac.hmc.edu>_<Scott_Boone>>>
Plot Keywords: music documentary, concert film, live performance, music career, musical innovation, music history, music culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Music videos and archived footage supplement recent interviews in this documentary of ex-Pogues singer Shane MacGowan. We follow his life from the early days in Ireland and England, through his formation of - and later dismissal from - The Pogues, to his new band The Popes. Shane's family, friends, and former bandmates comment on the music, the rumors, and the alcohol.—sienel
Plot Keywords: music documentary, biography, musician's life, creative process, music history, independent film, rock music ...
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