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52 min 19 sec - Aug 11, 2007
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This is the rare documentary that provided the original footage for the award winning, documentary by D. A. Pennebaker, Dont Look Back.
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L’hommage: Nina Simone
26 min 22 sec - Aug 5, 2007
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50 min 2 sec - Jul 23, 2007
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When the Sex Pistols released Never Mind The Bollocks, the type of music that was as old as the Sex Pistols are now, would have been Noel Coward singing ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen’. Which pretty much proves how modern and groundbreaking the Pistols were.
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50 min 26 sec - Jul 8, 2007
It might be just so effing po faced to have ‘Lord Bragg’ pontificate about the gritty Northern realism of the Smiths as being so, er, real, so true. But then again, they actually were. In the vast wasteland of crimped-hair, musical dross that was the eighties, Manchester and the Smiths were a cultural beacon. La Lala-La…
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1 hr 24 min 10 sec - Jul 11, 2007
The story of Live Aid - the worlds biggest concert. Seeing this in an age where people don’t seem to give-a-shit, almost brings tears to my eyes. In fact, it almost brought tears to my eyes then, because I couldn’t go, on account of being somewhere in the middle of Hungary, where I crashed a party after hearing ‘do they know its Christmas’ from the window.
Journalists have been trying for years to track down the girl that Bono picks out of the audience making her globally famous for 15 minutes. I know who she is, but I’m not telling!
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