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• Soul To Soul | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  On March 6 1971 some of the greatest artists in popular music history travelled from the US to Ghana in western Africa to participate in a 14 hour musical celebration known as 'Soul To Soul'. Over 100 000 enthusiastic locals gathered for this unique cultural exchange between two vastly different continents. This award-winning film combines classic concert performances with scenes documenting the artists getting in touch with their roots as they return to their cultural motherland. No

• Tony Palmer - All You Need Is Love Vol. 9 | DVD | (08/06/2009) from £8.65   |  Saving you £0.34 (3.93%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Over the past forty plus years British film director Tony Palmer has established himself as one of the country's foremost director's of documentary and factual based films. One of Tony Palmers first successes was the film All My Loving which was released in 1968. Some seven years later Tony had the idea encouraged by John Lennon to document the history of popular music. The result was the groundbreaking and award winning series of films made for television under the title All You Need Is Love. The full series of films was released in 2008 to great critical and commercial acclaim. In this episode we turn our attention to Rhythm and Blues. In the late forties white record companies labelled commercial black music race music. Eventually Jerry Wexler then working at Billboard magazine as a reporter thought of the phrase rhythm and blues and it caught on. Before long numerous other descriptions appeared - Motown the Philadelphia Sound Soul - but all had in common that the music expressed the rising aspirations of the ghetto. Meanwhile a curious imitation of black gospel appeared called white gospel - and among those who loved the sound were two remarkable men; one a record producer Sam Phillips who wanted to create a sound which had the discipline of white gospel but with the abandon of black rhythm and blues; the other was Elvis Presley. This volume of the highly regarded series of films includes interviews and performances with the artists Ike and Tina Turner Wilson Pickett and Stevie Wonder. Record producer Jerry Wexler is also interviewed.