Tony Palmer - All You Need Is Love Vol. 8 DVD

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 For this volume we turn our attention the musical genre known as swing. For... most of its history popular music has rarely been that which most people like. Jazz for instance has always been a minority interest. But in the era which was dominated by swing the music and its popularity were equally matched. White musicians became bored with the asinine popular music they were expected to play music pumped out by Tin Pan Alley and tried to emulate the style and freedom of their black counterparts. Most of them were too intelligent as musicians to indulge in mere imitation. What they created was the first white music based on black music which was not stolen from black music. [show more]

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