An overview of the life of the most shocking, vile, and notorious of punk rock legends.
Category: Music
Music
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The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
The Will Rogers Follies is a musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Cy Coleman. It focuses on the life and career of famed humorist and performer Will Rogers, using as a backdrop the Ziegfeld Follies, which he often headlined, and describes every episode in his life in the form of a big production number. The Rogers character also performs rope tricks in between scenes. The revue contains snippets of Rogers’ famous homespun style of wisdom and common sense and tries to convey the personality of this quintessentially American figure whose most famous quote was “I never met a man I didn’t like.”
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Oedipus Rex
Impressed by Jean Cocteau’s rewrite of Antigone, Stravinsky asked the poet for an adaptation of Oedipus Rex. The resulting libretto brings together the key scenes of Sophocles’s tragedy translated by the Abbé Jean Daniélou into Latin—a language that, according the composer, “is not dead but engraved in stone, and so imposing that it is immune to any popularization”.
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Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
Willie Nelson and friends celebrate his sixtieth birthday in a star-studded concert event.
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Wild Tango
A biopic based on the life of one of the pioneer argentine rock stars ‘Tanguito’. The movie tells the story of his rise and fall from grace, encompassed in violent times of a military regime.
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RapLine
Between 1990 and 1993, at a time when rap was not yet on the radio in France, Olivier Cachin hosted a musical TV show on M6 called “RapLine”. The show exclusively devoted to rap and other alternative music. This cult show presented all the facets of these emerging movements through interviews, lives and clips made especially for the show, around fifty clips were produced by RapLine. Another sequence of the show consisted of broadcasting new US rap clips subtitled in French.
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Neil Young: MTV Unplugged
Unplugged is a 1993 live album by Neil Young. It contains a previously unreleased song “Stringman”, that dates from 1976. The taping of the show was also released on VHS. The recording of this installment of the MTV series “Unplugged” was rife with tension, as Young was not happy with the performances of almost everyone in the band. In fact, the released version is actually the second attempt made at recording a set suitable for airing and release.
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The Thing Called Love
A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.
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Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
Interviews with celebrities such as Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, Dennis Hopper and Willie Nelson examine the remarkable career of actor-performer Kris Kristofferson, who successfully bridged the gap between Hollywood and Nashville. From his mastery of the “New Nashville” sound on his 1972 album “Jesus Was a Capricorn” to his role in the 1974 film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Kristofferson has shown an agility that’s hard to match.
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Knäpp igen
Celebrating the first revue/variety/show “Akta huvet/Watch Your Head” released in 1953 by pastiches and reworkings of the Povel Ramel song and comedy book.