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Eat the Document (1966)

August 13th, 2007 · 3 comments or link to (permalink)

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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Nina Simone Documentary by Peter Rodis, 1969

August 6th, 2007 · 1 comment or link to (permalink)

L’hommage: Nina Simone
26 min 22 sec - Aug 5, 2007
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Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks

July 23rd, 2007 · comment or link to (permalink)

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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The Smiths, Southbank Show 1987

July 13th, 2007 · comment or link to (permalink)

50 min 26 sec - Jul 8, 2007

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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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Live Aid Documentary - Rocking All Over The World

July 12th, 2007 · 2 comments or link to (permalink)

1 hr 24 min 10 sec - Jul 11, 2007

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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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