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the beatles

When Peter Jackson’s new documentary, The Beatles: Get Back, is released this summer, it’ll be a bittersweet moment for some of the band’s most loyal fans. We’ll finally understand what went on during the recording of Let It Be, but … Continued

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Danny Says is a 2016 documentary directed by Brendon Toller about Danny Fields, a publicist, manager, and journalist. He managed The Stooges, MC5, and the Ramones and worked for Lou Reed and Judy Collins. His groundbreaking role in music helped … Continued

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Danny Fields
notorious B.I.G.

Most recent film and television projects about the Brooklyn-born rapper Christopher Wallace (aka the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or simply Biggie) focus on his death (still unsolved) in a 1997 Los Angeles drive-by shooting.  In the 2009 biopic film Notorious, … Continued

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The documentary How to Be: Mark Ronson tracks the career of the prolific music producer. Mark Ronson’s career started at age 16 when he DJ’d events and met big names like Q-Tip and Premiere and created beats for artists like … Continued

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joan jett

Seminal rock band, The Runaways, has already been the subject of a 2010 feature film starring Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie, cofounders of the group. The Runaways was based on Currie’s memoir about her … Continued

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Eric Clapton is a living legend. His smooth guitar licks and unmistakable, genre-defining tones are a cornerstone of rock and roll history. He’s right up there with B.B. King, Muddy Waters, and Buddy Guy in the pantheon of the all-time … Continued

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Eric Clapton. Timothy White, 1997. Sitting in a doorway, arms on knees.
Lady Gaga Documentary

Lady Gaga is one of the biggest pop stars on the planet, and Netflix is gearing up to dive deep into the mind of one of the most prolific artists of the 21st century. Gaga: Five Foot Two is a … Continued

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Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine practically defined popular music in the 1990s, and their long-lasting friendship is being turned into a four-part HBO documentary. The Defiant Ones borrows its title from the seminal 1958 drama starring Sidney Poitier and Tony … Continued

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The Defiant Ones Eminem