United Nation: Three Decades of Drum & Bass (2020), I Want My MTV (2019), If I Leave Here Tomorrow: A Film About Lynyrd Skynyrd (2018), Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (2007), Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987), Chuck Berry (2019), The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town (2010), Lightning in a Bottle (2004) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Music Retrospective movies.
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: A nostalgic look back at the birth of MTV, which began broadcasting in 1981 and went on to shape modern pop culture and change the world.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, music history, pop culture, 1980s, rock music, music industry, cultural phenomenon ...
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 look at the improvised life of Anita O'Day (1919-2006), singer and stylist whose timing, phrasing, interpretations, and unique sound put her among the finest vocalists of jazz. Interviews with her late in life are interspersed with archival footage of performances and old interviews as well as with comments by friends, arrangers, critics, and other musicians. She talks about singing without a uvula (sing eighth notes), of jail time for a marijuana arrest, of taking and kicking heroin, of finally making money after appearing at the Newport Jazz Festival, of loss, of a broken arm that almost cost her life, and of living in 4/4 time, one day at a time, smiling.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, jazz, biography, singer, female lead, american film ...
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: Filmmaker Jon Brewer examines the fascinating life and career of legendary rock 'n' roll pioneer Chuck Berry.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, biography, musician, guitarist, american music, concert, 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: Beginning with a stirring African folk song (Zélié performed by Angélique Kidjo) the roots are established and rapidly swell into a trunk thickened by the hardships of the Great Depression (Gamblin' Man performed by David 'Honeyboy' Edwards) and the oppression of segregation (Jim Crow Blues performed by Odetta). Finally, this Blues family tree shows off vibrant new growth as it reveals the Blues' influence on our modern wealth of talented musicians (Midnight Special performed by John Fogerty and Hound Dog done by Macy Gray). Ruth Brown gives Blll Cosby a full-throttle serenade (and a playful smoldering gaze), along with Mavis Staples and Natalie Cole. Angélique Kidjo persuades Buddy Guy to an unforgettable rendition of 'Voodoo Child,' shortly before Bonnie Raitt and Robert Cray accompany B.B. King and Lucille for the final number, 'Paying the Cost to be the Boss.' This documentary presents to the audience, with authority and candor, an authentic history of this musical form. The highly esteemed elders of this musical family are exemplary in their humbleness toward one another, rich with decades of shared memories; and their performances are of a quality rarely seen in modern times. These men and women are true artisans, yet they continue to generously pass their legacy down to select members of each musical generation. Those who grew up on this music find themselves performing on the stage with the very heroes who served as their earliest inspiration. Legends, such as Ruth Brown, Honeyboy Edwards, Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown, B.B. King, Howling Wolf, and Buddy Guy, gave the world a double helping of their genius-first with song and secondly as the spirit which supplies the continuation of their art: in such artists as Natalie Cole, Jimmie Vaughan, John Fogerty, Macy Gray, Alison Krause, and Bonnie Raitt.—Annie Campos
Plot Keywords: music documentary, music history, american music, music culture, improvisation, music legends, musical performance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The turbulent life of soul and blues singer, the late Joe Cocker. A former gas fitter from Sheffield , catapulted to world stardom in 1969 at Woodstock with his legendary performance of the Beatles song,"A Little Help from My Friends". But in the early 1970s, Joe Cocker's inner demons nearly killed him. Overcoming his struggles with alcohol and drugs, he rebuilt his reputation as "one of the great primal rock and roll vocalists of all time" (Billy Joel's description). The film mixes Joe Cocker's own words, with rare archive. His family, friends and the legendary songwriters and musicians he collaborated with, tell Joe Cocker's story. The film has raw, electric performance footage throughout.—John Edginton
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, biography, soul, rock, concert, music legend ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Movie detailing ABBA's mega-successful tour of Australia during mid-1977. While it mostly contains back-stage footage and as well as ABBA's famous songs such as "Dancing Queen", "Tiger", "Name Of The Game" and "Eagle" among others sung filmed during their concerts in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide, it has the sub-plot of young country and western radio disc-jockey, Ashley, whose boss orders him to have a deep interview with ABBA and the problems he has trying to reach them as he forgets his press pass and ABBA's main bodyguard, (Tom Oliver) is determined to stop him...—Lee Horton <Leeh@tcp.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: music, documentary, concert, sweden, 1970s, pop music, musical film ...
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