Author: The Rocumentalist

Phil Collins: Classic Albums – Face Value

In the three decades since the album’s appearance, Phil Collins became an international solo star – but many still consider Face Value his finest album. This hour-long documentary has Collins himself providing the bulk of the commentary, openly discussing how the lyrics to ‘In the Air Tonight’ wrote themselves after his painful divorce and explaining why a drummer would ever use a drum machine.

Also interviewed on camera are engineer Hugh Padgham, Genesis colleagues Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford, producer Ahmet Ertegun and many of the studio musicians. Songs such as ‘I Missed Again’, ‘The Roof Is Leaking’, ‘This Must Be Love’ and ‘In the Air Tonight’ are accompanied by Collins’ own and previously-unreleased concert footage.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6gUj-5wXGA

 

Prince: The Glory Years

Packed with live performance and studio footage, rare photographs and new interviews with friends, confidants, fellow musicians and other people close to Prince, this documentary reviews and re-captures the golden decade of one of the industry’s most innovative and influential artists and helps discover why Prince Rodgers Nelson simply stole the 80s.

The film focuses on Prince’s creative and commercial output during the 1980s, with anecdotes provided by several of his key collaborators and some great insights into the inner workings of his ‘Purple Reign’.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDgFN1hjryU

 

Kiss: VH1 Ultimate Albums – Alive!

A documentary on Kiss’ early career and their 1975 live album, Alive!. It includes interviews with the members of Kiss – Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, Peter Criss – producer Eddie Kramer, founding manager Bill Aucoin, Ted Nugent, Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit, Art Alexakis of Everclear, Ken Sharp (co-writer of ‘Kiss: Behind The Mask’), Kevin Bacon, Kiss’ original road manager J.R. Smalling and others.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq5t0VnYi9w

 

Queen: Days Of Our Lives

Queen released 26 albums and sold over 300 million records worldwide. The story of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon is remarkable – a narrative that covers early struggles, huge obstacles, success, arguments, breakups, triumph, tragedy and an enduring legacy – all against a backdrop of brilliant music and stunning live performances from every corner of the globe. In this two-part film the band tells that story for the first time.

Guiding us through an archive full of previously unseen footage, the documentary reveals how four strong-minded individuals worked together so successfully for four decades.

Days Of Our Lives, Part 1

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7YXd9OAX2U

 

Days Of Our Lives, Part 2

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avIacpOsCoc

 

Queen: Classic Albums – A Night At The Opera

Queen: The Making Of A Night At The Opera tells the track by track story of the album through new interviews with Brian May, Roger Taylor and producer Roy Thomas Baker along with archive interviews with Freddie Mercury and contributions from photographer Mick Rock, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry and Ian Hunter from Mott The Hoople amongst others. The film is illustrated by classic live footage, much of it from the Hyde Park free concert in 1976.

httpvp://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL644FD582567B397C&feature=plcp