Saturday, December 4, 2010

Rock docs

Tonight I watched Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, the biopic of Ian Dury. Ian Serkis is fabulous as Dury. It got me thinking about music documentaries. I quite fancy the idea of curating a festival of Brit rock docs. Trying to avoid straight-forward concert films, here's a quick dozen off the top of my head, starting at the beginning:

- Summer Holiday
- A Hard Day's Night
- Telstar
- Gimme Shelter
- Let It Be
- Tommy
- Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii
- Ziggy Stardust
- The Song Remains the Same
- The Filth and the Fury
- This is Spinal Tap
- Glastonbury
- Scott Walker: 30th Century Man
- Control

Of course there's many more. Do feel free to add...

3 comments:

  1. Be Glad For The Song Has No End
    Glastonbury Fayre
    Cracked Actor
    No Direction Home
    That'll Be the Day / Stardust

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  2. Is Be Glad... ISB? Yup, the original Glastonbury doc. Cracked Bowie - yes, absolutely. Dylan's NDH is not terribly Brit... And yes, the two Essex vehicles, particularly That'll Be The Day with great Ringo performance.

    I guess we should also add Quadrophenia and Yellow Submarine... but perhaps not Help! or Magical Mystery Tour.

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  3. Actually, you could probably curate a whole fest just on Julien Temple's films. There's the not-terribly-good but colourfully of-its-time Absolute Beginners, and the recent Oil City Confidential (about Dr Feelgood) and I gather he's working on The Kinks next (You Really Got Me).

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