Category: Music
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Elemental 7
A visual art music/video album created by the members of the industrial/experimental group Throbbing Gristle, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti.
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White Star
A clean-cut synth artist in Germany hopes to turn his career around with the help of a washed-up, erratic, publicity-crazed American manager.
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Rocky Mountain Holiday with John Denver and the Muppets
Rocky Mountain Holiday is a one-hour musical variety special featuring John Denver and the Muppets, which aired on ABC on May 12, 1983. In the special, John and the Muppets go on a summer camping trip to the Rocky Mountains.
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Tristan und Isolde
Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a ‘Tristan’ for eternity. The 1983 performance in Bayreuth was a great moment for the world of opera. The ensemble performance of René Kollo, Johanna Meier and Matti Salminen with, then as now the Wagner admirer, Daniel Barenboim conducting the Bayreuth orchestra…
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
This is an extremely rare example of science fiction, Hong Kong style, but, fittingly, it’s unlike any sci-fi flick you’ve ever seen. Alien abductions, suicide pacts, superstardom, and the reality of science fiction itself is spotlighted in this bright, crazy, truly out of this world epic — one of the more unusual movies in the…
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Eddie and the Cruisers
A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader — Eddie Wilson — may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band’s never-released album.
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Neil Young in Berlin
The Godfather of Grunge is captured live on his TRANS tour on this release filmed in Berlin in October 1982. The gravel-voiced, messy rock legend is as impassioned as ever, banging out 11 hits, including the classics “Hey Hey, My My,” “Like a Hurricane,” “Cinnamon Girl,” and “Needle and the Damage Done” as well as…
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Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
TV movie based on the singer’s life, under his mother’s thumb, competing with the ghost of one of the most famous singers in C&W music history, and aspiring to rise above it all.
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, KV626
Live performance of Mozart’s immortal Requiem in D minor from the Herkulessaal in Munich, 1984. Soprano Edith Mathis, alto Trudeliese Schmidt, tenor Peter Schreier, and bass Gwynne Howell, with the The Bavarian Radio Symphony and Orchestra, are conducted by Sir Colin Davis.
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The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert
After years of separation, the two voices and acoustic guitars that laid the foundation for pop music were united again to harmonize in London’s Royal Albert Hall as thousands of fans who flocked to the scene were joined by generations of musicians they inspired, from the Beatles to the Beach Boys. With an all-star band…
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Electric Dreams
Miles buys himself a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing thoughts and emotions after having champagne spilled on it. Things start getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, the computer, fall in love with Madeline, an attractive neighbor.
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Richard Thompson Band: Live at Rockpalast
The show, recorded by German TV and radio station WDR, was an incredible demonstration of Thompson’s musicianship and shows a band in total harmony within itself delivering to its fullest. They carry the music of their “boss” and give him the lightness and the leeway to fully unfold his potential. The concert is an absolute…
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Omega, Omega, Omega
The film the was made of OMEGA band’s November 1982 concert in the Budapest Sportstadium.
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Stop Making Sense
A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album “Speaking in Tongues.” The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals.
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Ethniki papadon
Papa-Malachias, Papa-Haros and Papa-Bilias have founded the Priestly Band and make appearances at the nightclub “Xerokomata”. Their abbot, who is learning their new occupation, comes to Athens, but fails to make sense of them. When he returns to the monastery of Medouli and tells everything to the other monks, they leave the monastery and form…
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Mister Blot’s Academy
Thanks to the powers of magic, Adaś Niezgódka is transported to the fairy tale land of Mr. Blot – the protagonist of Jan Brzechwa’s classic book. Mr. Blot is a teacher and a magician in one. His lessons cannot be boring. Especially when bIotology is the subject. Adaś learns about the miracles of the enchanted…
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The Adventures of the Little Muk
A musical TV story based on the work of Wilhelm Gauf “Little Muck”.
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Cinderella ’80
A feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpacker Mizio, who eventually turns out to be of Italian nobility. There’s a fairy stand-in in the form of a spaced-out astrologer, a dance,…
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Scorpions: Rock Pop Festival – Dortmund, 17 December 1983
Set List: Blackout – Loving You Sunday Morning – Coming Home – Always Somewhere – Holiday – Can’t Live Without You – Dynamite – Can’t Get Enough