Sylvie Simmons

Brian Wilson and the boys of summer add a pinch of down-home twang to their classic harmonies with the help of country music's finest. In this 1996 recording session for the album "Stars and Stripes," The Beach Boys rework 12 of their songs, including "409" (with Junior Brown), "The Warmth of the Sun" (with Willie Nelson), "In My Room" (with Tammy Wynette), "Don't Worry Baby" (with Lorrie Morgan), and "I Get Around" (with Sawyer Brown).

This film tells (using modern day interviews and archival footage and sound tapes) the story of how in 1967, while his band The Beach Boys triumphantly toured abroad, Brian Wilson was trying to push the boundaries of conventional pop music with a new follow-up to the Beach Boys' cutting-edge mega-hit, Pet Sounds. The new album was to be called "SMiLE". SMiLE pushed the envelope both musically and lyrically, and was supposed to out-do the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper record. But Brian wasn't able to sell the project to his band-mates when they returned. The project was shelved and Wilson's well-documented decline into depression, drug abuse, recluseness, and obesity had begun. Thirty-odd years later, Wilson announced that in 2004, SMiLE would be performed live in its entirety in London. This film tells the story of a damaged but healing artist bringing his greatest work to light.

Un documentaire qui explore la création du deuxième album séminal de Tears for Fears. Les chansons de The Big Chair ont pris les fondements de la synth-pop gothique du groupe et les ont combinées avec des hymnes prêts pour l'arène, menant à des éloges de la critique et à trois singles à succès internationaux, Mothers Talk, Shout et Everybody Wants to Rule the World.

Série documentaire sur les albums pop et rock qui sont considérés comme les meilleurs ou les plus caractéristiques d'un groupe ou d'un musicien connu ou qui illustrent une étape de l'histoire de la musique.