Music documentaries

[BassAgent]

I'd like to find some more good and relatively unknown music documentaries, so let's make it a topic to collect them.

 

At the moment, I'm watching "One Hand Don't Clap", a 1986 film about Caribbean Calypso. Beautiful.

 

[PaulThePlug]

Rockfield - The Studio on the Farm

It's been on the box, Beeb4, Ch4, Sky Arts, one of those. Good watch.

 

[Old Man Riva]

Might not fall into the lesser known category, but Muscle Shoals is well worth watching…

 

 

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

Hired Gun . Some kind of monster. ( If you disliked James and Lars, you would probably detest them now 🙂) The Jason Becker documentary is very moving ..

The Hawkwind BBC 4 Documentary , and Fleetwood Mac ones are great also 

Edited December 10 by RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE

[BassAgent]

5 minutes ago, Old Man Riva said:

Might not fall into the lesser known category, but Muscle Shoals is well worth watching…

 

 

That is indeed brilliant.

 

Also, in that same "famous studio people" category:

 

[upside downer]

Only available on youtube, The Seventh Python is an enjoyable look at the life and career of Bonzo and Rutles man Neil Innes.

 

 

[MacDaddy]

 

There's a documentary about an old British heavy metal band that's quite good.

 

 

 

 

[Dan Dare]

Standing in the Shadows of Motown is well worth a watch. 

[rushbo]

I may be biased as I'm a Brummie, but this is a top-tier contemporary music documentary:

 

 

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

The Anvil documentary 

[casapete]

‘20 feet from Stardom’, a 2013 film all about the lives of backing singers.

Very watchable and gives a great insight into the world of singers who perform

with many famous bands.

[Gareth Hughes]

I watched this last night - eye opening to see how we all collectively walked into this one.

 

https://www.paramountplus.com/gb/shows/how-music-got-free/

[itu]

8 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

There's a documentary about an old British heavy metal band that's quite good.

 

But... wasn't that a rockumentary?

[itu]

One of my all time favourites is Flamenco by Carlos Saura. 100 minutes of incredible music and musicians.

[SteveXFR]

Some Kind Of Monster 

Following Metallica through the recording of an album. Cringe a minute car crash viewing. I don't understand why they decided to release it, they all come out of it looking terrible. 

Grab a beer and some popcorn 

 

 

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

The Bros documentary BBC4 

[lowdown]

Netflix:

The Quincy Jones documentary 'Quincy' is a decent watch.

[ezbass]

Started watching Everything is Possible on the BBC yesterday. I’m a Simple Minds fan so it was always going to appeal, but this seems really well done so far, Jim Kerr & Charlie Burchill always interview well.

 

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0025ynx/simple-minds-everything-is-possible
 

Edited December 11 by ezbass

[MrCrane]

 

 

Also the Classic Album Series e.g.

 

 

[miles'tone]

Great 👍

[Dankology]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1586546/

 

About the band Scarce - a great group who were felled by some incredibly bad luck.

[Frank Blank]

Another vote here for King Rocker, sublime.

 

22 hours ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

The Bros documentary BBC4 

 

I believe my learned friend is referring to Bros: After the Screaming Stops, I watched this when it was first aired in 2018 and posted about it during transmission...

 

 

...I was kind of half way through doubled over with laughter when I realised the absolute tragedy of the poor twins delusion. Complete car crash viewing.

[Frank Blank]

Bad News Tour (1983)...

 

 

[HornetPinata]

The Sparks Brothers documentary is worth a watch, one of the best music documentaries I've seen.

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8610436/

 

 

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