One of the best-selling albums in history and arguably the finest hard rock album ever made, AC/DC’s Back In Black was recorded just months after the tragic death of the band’s original singer Bon Scott. This Classic Album Under Review episode tells the incredible story behind the making of this classic album.
Category: Bands
Kings of Leon: Talihina Sky
Talihina Sky is the story of Kings of Leon, from their strict Pentecostal upbringing in Oklahoma and Tennessee to their unlikely transformation into one of the biggest rock bands in the world.
Home movies, childhood photos and revealing interviews with band members’ parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins reveal how their family and background has influenced the creativity that drives Kings of Leon today. The story of Kings of Leon has been called the “best band creation story in recent memory” and is told in this film by the people who lived it.
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Rush: Classic Albums – The Making of 2112 and Moving Pictures
Judas Priest: Classic Albums – British Steel
Documentary from the Classic Albums series on Judas Priest’s British Steel.
The Band: Classic Albums – The Band
The Band’s eponymously titled 1969 album reached number 9 in the Billboard chart, secured 24 weeks in the Top 40, and sold over a million copies.
Featuring interviews with the surviving members of the band – Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson and producer John Simon – together with fellow musicians including Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and Don Was, this film underlines The Band’s enormous contribution to popular music history and confirms why, for many music lovers they will always be The Band.