Pulp – No Sleep Till Sheffield

BBC
35 min 25 sec – Sep 1, 2007

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Something odd happened in the early nineties in Britain. Jarvis Cocker summed it up as: ‘suddenly it was cool to be poor’. Goodbye to wannabe Sloanes (or Preppies as their US counterparts were called) with their stand up collars, brogues, cords and jobs at stuffy banks; hello football, guitar bands and looking forward instead of back. At the time I was living in an abandoned warehouse, in London’s, now gentrified, Shoreditch, and it was a splendid time to be alive. Nobody summed up the mood of the mini renaissance better than Pulp.Hearing ‘Common People’ almost brings me to tears.

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John Lennons Jukebox

48 min 2 sec – Aug 29, 2007
4000holes.blogspot.com

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A few years back, a portable jukebox that had once belonged to John Lennon, in the 60’s was discovered. On it were Lennon’s hand written labels for his favorite 40 songs. This documentary is about those songs. Perfect.

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Eat the Document (1966)

52 min 19 sec – Aug 11, 2007
www.lulu.com

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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

L’hommage: Nina Simone
26 min 22 sec – Aug 5, 2007
www.high-priestess.com

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Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks

50 min 2 sec – Jul 23, 2007
chatdevil.blogspot.com

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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

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

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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Northern Soul

There are two places in the world that rank high in the importance of 60’s and early 70’s Soul: the North of the Midwest, where it was made and the North of England where the blue-collar, black American art form was truly appreciated by their white English counterpart.

This is a great documentary about the Wigan Casino an unlikely and forgotten cultural Mecca.

Running time: 26 mins.

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Interview with Jim Brown about “Pete Seeger, the Power of Song”

Jim Brown, interviewed here, is the director of the film about Pete Seeger, that was recently shown at the Tribeca Film Festival (and which I unfortunately failed to get to see after queueing for 2 hours).

Running time: 27 mins

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Pump up the Volume – The History of House Music

Running time, part 1: 58 mins.

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Running time, part 2: 49 mins.

Full Screen, part 2.

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