Post by Amanda Blue on Oct 7, 2007 14:16:10 GMT -5
Tony Palmer’s - All My Loving (DVD)
An unfiltered look at music and life in the 60’s that is still relevant today. This film examines POPs influence beyond music and gives information about POP publishing . It includes infamous political footage of the time; shootings, riots, war dead, concentration camps & Vietnam war photos. This film raises issues and dialog that remain vital and interesting even 40 years later.
Features performance videos and / or interviews by; Lulu, Paul McCartney, Cream, Rolling Stones, Who, Pink Floyd, Donovan, Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison‘s mother, Ringo, George Martin, Derek Taylor (Beatles publicist),John Lennon, Moody Blues, Manfred Mann, Tony Horn, Ginger Baker, Frank Zappa.
Paul McCartney
…no desire in any of our heads to sort of take over the world or use (the attention) for evil…there is a desire to get power in order to use it for good
…totally more than Indian famine relief for the last 10 years. Pop is the language of profit and must be photographed and appear as society expects.
Pete Townshend
…our actual intention is to play out all the adrenalin and all the aggression and show the audience that you are a frustrated character that you do wanna get something out of your system and you do want to do it in front of them and its got much more to do with art and music than people imagine, much much more to do with pop music than anything else
Jimi Hendrix
…when we’re on stage that is all the world, that is your whole life
Frank Zappa
…we’re involved in sort of a low key war against apathy, I don’t know how you’re doing on apathy over there (England) but we got a lot of it boys and girls. A lot of what we do is designed to annoy people to the point where they might, just for a second, question enough of their environment to do something about it. As long as they don’t feel their environment, they don’t worry about it, they’re not going to do anything to change it and something’s got to be done before America scarfs up the world and shits on it
This documentary film was created 40 years ago, commissioned by the BBC to explain pop/rock n roll to generations beyond the music genre’s reach. In 1967 Tony Palmer hadn’t been with the BBC long but he had met John Lennon 3 years before at Cambridge. When he contacted John and informed him of his task John felt the project had merit and helped Tony contact the leading artists of the day to contribute to his film.
All fans of 60s music and all people interested in the affect of pop culture on politics and world issues that transcend borders(then and now) should view this film.
