Gram Parsons

Une chronique détaillée de la célèbre tournée de 1969 du groupe de rock britannique The Rolling Stones aux États-Unis, qui a culminé avec le concert désastreux et tragique donné le 6 décembre au festival gratuit Altamont Speedway, un événement d'importance historique, car il a marqué la fin d'une époque : la génération de la paix et de l'amour est soudainement devenue la génération de la désillusion.

Star-studded show recorded at the Big Sur Folk Festival, Big Sur, California, September 13th and 14th, 1969. Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joni Mitchell, John Sebastian, and others. This film captures a remarkable moment in folk, rock, and pop history - the famous folk festival that brought traditional acts like Dorothy Morrison & The Combs Sisters and Carol Ann Cisneros together with the psychedelic rockers of the day who were most deeply rooted in the folk revival. Older songs like ‘Oh Happy Day,’ ‘Rise And Shine,’ ‘All God’s Children,’ and ‘Swing Down, Sweet Chariot’ meet Joni Mitchell’s ‘Woodstock,’ Joan Baez’s ‘Sweet Sir Galahad,’ ‘Bob Dylan’s ‘I Shall Be Released,’ CSNY’s ‘Down By The River,’ and many more of the now-classic songs of what was then called the ‘new rock.’ The scene is notably intimate and - aside from one fan’s dustup with Stephen Stills - mellow, with many rare, close-up moments with the stars.

On September 19, 1973, the musician and heir to a million-dollar fortune died under the influence of drugs and alcohol near his favourite place - the Joshua Tree National Monument in the Californian desert. As the founder of the Flying Burrito Brothers, a member of the hit-making, legendary Byrds, an important influence on the Rolling Stones and the man who catapulted Emmylou Harris to fame, Gram Parsons made music history in only a few years. Friends, contemporaries and devotees of Gram Parsons talk about the importance of his work and the bizarre circumstances of his early death. Rare footage of his performances shows why Gram Parsons has become a legend. Interviewees include Gram's wife Gretchen, his sister and his daughter, Keith Richards, Emmylou Harris, Chris Hillman and "Road Manager" Phil Kaufman.

Depuis son divorce, Paul déprime passablement. En désespoir de cause, il achète et prend pour la première fois du LSD. S'en suivent des hallucinations démentes et des visions horrifiques.

À l’abri des collines d’Hollywood, une communauté de jeunes artistes a vu s’épanouir les plus grands noms du mouvement "flower power" : The Doors, Joni Mitchell, The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Buffalo Springfield, The Mamas and the Papas, Frank Zappa. Plongée dans la bande-son d’une décennie rêveuse et révolutionnaire.