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No jacket required, tonight, just bring your lady!

Advantages: A great rock documentary. A precious insight of the greatest music era of rock
Disadvantages: None

The Last Waltz is perhaps the last filmed document of the great rock era of the sixties. Thanks to the wise folks who reversed it on DVD now you too can participate to the ball, almost 30 years after! Late is better than never. The Band, better known as Bob Dylan's band during the incendiary World tour of 1966 and American tour of 1974, is the host of this unforgettable night of music - which took place at the Winterland of San Francisco to celebrate ...
...The guests are pure gold: Dr. John ("Such a Night"), Ronnie Hawkins, Joni Mitchell ("Coyote"), Neil Young ("Helpless"), Paul Butterfield, Muddy Waters ("Mannish Boy"), Neil Diamond ("Dry Your Eyes"... by the way, what is HE doing here?), Van Morrison ("Caravan"), Bob Dylan ("Baby Let Me Follow You Down" and "Forever Young"), plus many others supporting the Band itself, such as The Staples, Eric Clapton, Emmilou Harris, and minor appearances by Ringo ...

just.amore 06.11.2003 · Read full review
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Review of The Last Waltz (DVD)

Take a Liberty with big band music

Advantages: Liza Minnelli lovely singing voice
Disadvantages: Not everyone likes musicals

~~ NEW YORK, NEW YORK ~~ Another movie from my musical collection and believe it or not before this viewing I had never seen it before, so I had no idea what to expect. I was also quiet surprised that it was a relatively young film, compared to a lot of good musicals, it opened in America in 1977. I knew the song New York, New York by Frank Sinatra, but I had never heard of the film. ~~ The Film ~~ The movie tells the complicated love story of ...
...~~ You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me: This is the first song that shows the sparks of love between Francine and Jimmy as well as their musical talents. This song was originally song by Maurice Chevalier in the 1930 film The Big Pond and was written by Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal. You Are My Lucky Star: A lovely production number with Francine singing with Frankie Harte's band, it is truly a lovely melody. The song was previous performed by Gene ...

arnoldhenryrufus 11.06.2008 · Read full review
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Review of New York, New York (Special Edition) (DVD)

shine a light film only

Advantages: tremendous sound and direction
Disadvantages: none really

...scorsese and who are the rolling stones? The band consists of rock and roll legends mick jagger, keith richards, ronnie wood and charlie watts. the movie coincides with bands own release of their shine a light music dvd. Therefore most if not all of the songs contained on the compact disc are in the film at some point. the film was staged in the beacon theatre in new york in two thousand and six. the rolling stones are holding a concert for former ...
...movie was that the rolling stones gave the impression throughout that based on their method of performing was all too easy. Have no doubt, that I am sure the band could have made up any new song and made it sound interesting for people to listen to. The film contained many old songs from over the past forty years and this did not disappoint. the band produced great variety in their style of entertaining. the band had special guests during some of ...

costas1234 13.04.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Rolling Stones - Shine A Light (DVD)

"She's so swishy in her satin and tat"

Advantages: Fascinating insight into Bowie's work
Disadvantages: Probably not for newcomers to Bowie

...has consistently impressed me is David Bowie. Called a 'chameleon' for many because of the various characters that he has portrayed, his range of music is impressive. My favourite Bowie era is the early seventies, and thankfully, this is exactly the period that this double DVD and book set cover. Called a 'critical review', a number of people connected to Bowie and the music world are interviewed during the course of the DVDs. Two of those interviewed ...
...any kind of interview with David Bowie himself, except for the odd flash of an early seventies interview that he gave. I was initially quite disappointed to not have his input; however, in hindsight, this is supposed to be a 'critical review', so it makes sense not to have an interview with Bowie himself. And some of the interviews are really quite critical - Pin-Ups, a cover version album that Bowie released, is more or less panned by all of those ...

sunmeilan 27.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of David Bowie - Inside David Bowie 1969 To 1974 (Limited Edition) (+Book) (DVD)

Fantastic film anyone would have to enjoy it!!

Advantages: Everything, sheer masterpiece!
Disadvantages: Non apart from the fact it made me cry!

In my opinion this film is fantastic. It is a classic tearjerker with lots of fun and exciting elements to it. I feel this film can appeal to absolutley anyone as the story is fantastic and the actors are vibrant and gorgeous (for both the men and the women!). All in all from my point of view this film is worth purchasing it will definatley take your breath away! The songs featured in the film in my opinion are absolutley fabulous, ranging from ...

Racercaz 25.12.2009 · Read full review
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