Considering the access to bands and people this is just really annoying! The volume has not been balanced at all. I want to hear the interviews and when the bands playing I expect it to kick in loud. Instead they turn it down to 2 and you can barely hear it.
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Superb (for those interested in the philosophy/music/politics etc)
ldoig17 October 2007
This has recently come out on DVD and I've realised now that over the years I've seen lots of this famous programme on numerous others in various bits and pieces so its nice to see it in its entirety and fully restored.
As someone who was not of the sixties (far too young) but has always had a great deal of interest in the politics of the counter-culture I found this absolutely superb. A cliché, but you really don't get things like this anymore. Makes me realise how dumbed down TV has got over the years, really before I would ever be aware of it. If you're interested in the era, either a student or simply a lover of the music then this is more than a must see, its prime essential viewing. Things really have changed...and I'm not sure whether I can say for the better or not.
The interviews are fascinating, some at times quite profound and prophetic. Some are sad now, seeing Hendrix still "young" at that point it does make you bitter about what was done to him, again (and a sad irony it is) this does emphasise the richness of the programme, as one of the themes of the programme is how big business sucks the life out of "us" and creates a world full of untruths making a mockery of mankind. The fact that the sixties was rebelling against rigid structures is forgotten today, it's sad that most think it was just about sex and drugs.
Again, this is not for the casual viewer but for those with an interest, and for the fact that you're reading this means you probably are, so I can't stress enough how much that you must see it.
I guess I still wonder what really might have happened had we "won".
Oh, and good on Mr Palmer for saying that McCartney talks b%$£%$£s! (The interview part of the DVD is great too)
As someone who was not of the sixties (far too young) but has always had a great deal of interest in the politics of the counter-culture I found this absolutely superb. A cliché, but you really don't get things like this anymore. Makes me realise how dumbed down TV has got over the years, really before I would ever be aware of it. If you're interested in the era, either a student or simply a lover of the music then this is more than a must see, its prime essential viewing. Things really have changed...and I'm not sure whether I can say for the better or not.
The interviews are fascinating, some at times quite profound and prophetic. Some are sad now, seeing Hendrix still "young" at that point it does make you bitter about what was done to him, again (and a sad irony it is) this does emphasise the richness of the programme, as one of the themes of the programme is how big business sucks the life out of "us" and creates a world full of untruths making a mockery of mankind. The fact that the sixties was rebelling against rigid structures is forgotten today, it's sad that most think it was just about sex and drugs.
Again, this is not for the casual viewer but for those with an interest, and for the fact that you're reading this means you probably are, so I can't stress enough how much that you must see it.
I guess I still wonder what really might have happened had we "won".
Oh, and good on Mr Palmer for saying that McCartney talks b%$£%$£s! (The interview part of the DVD is great too)
Pointless
len-paulson8 January 2007
I had the great misfortune to watch this so-called documentary today. I was born in 1953, so I grew up during the time that this doco purports to portray; I know about the 1960s because I lived through them. My question to Tony Palmer would be now, and would have been then, "What exactly is your point?". Are you seriously trying to draw a relationship between pop music in the late 1960s with Nazism and everything that repulsive doctrine represents? What exactly was your reasoning behind displaying images of self-immolating Buddhist monks and Viet Cong soldiers being executed and Japanese soldiers being napalmed to death, all to the soundtrack of Pink Floyd, Cream and the Beatles? What exactly do Nazi death camp scenes have to do with pop music? In my opinion, Tony Palmer appears to be as bitter and twisted as it seems possible to be. Could a person be so devoid of humanity to portray the world on the 1960s with such a jaundiced eye? What, in short, is the matter with him? After enduring this alleged documentary, I had no hesitation in deleting it from my collection.
Interesting time capsule but a bit dated
dcole-21 August 2007
Just saw this at a screening at the American Cinematheque with director Tony Palmer present. For the record, interviews and performances include: Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Cream, Frank Zappa, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Martin, Donovan, Jimi Hendrix, Manfred Mann, Lulu, The Who, Pete Townshend, Anthony Burgess and others. Great to see the fine performances; trenchant insight from Zappa. McCartney and Donovan seem like naive, starry-eyed idealists in hindsight. But a lot of what seems most dated is the whole "what's this pop music all about?" stuff from guys in suits doing experiments and such -- seems almost like a Monty Python parody of this kind of BBC documentary. Still, just as archival footage, it's a treat. Wish he'd shown some performance footage of Zappa and the Mothers, since all the other bands are well represented.
Tuned in for a Beatles-era doc, got a shocker instead
dxfjpv14 January 2023
I don't think I've been as shocked as I am watching something; This documentary blatantly shows found footage of a tied man getting shot in the head and falling on the ground, with the blood spurting up like a fountain. This material is wildly out of topic- its use does not make sense in the context- and should have been cut for modern day audiences, who aren't the hardy 60s era crowd. No warnings or anything beforehand, I'm talking about Netflix specifically. Do not watch this documentary if you're not a fan of seeing an actual man die when you just expected some rock bands to talk about stuff.
It shows people getting killed
zvanderijdt24 March 2023
You see the dead bodies of people in the Nazi camps getting stacked on eachother. You see a man walking and getting shot in the head and blood spurting out. You see people getting killed in between interviews and music which is very strange. It has nothing to do with the 60s music era and kind of shocking. It is almost like traumatizing the viewer. Why would someone want to that ? The people dying in between has nothing to do with the music and I dont understand why the title is All my Loving from the Beatles. Very shocking and not something to show on Netflix. It made me feel not very nice and I stopped watching it therefore.
A subtitle file for this, please.
sandromaneschy5 March 2008
Hi, does anyone know where I can find a subtitle file for this movie? I have an old version, downloaded via Emule, in 2005, or so. I think BBC has released a new one, maybe with digital features and all, a DVD... But I want a subtitle archive! For the old, but maybe for the new one will work too. Or maybe put here a link for a subtitle creator.Thanks very much! Any help appreciated. The documentary is great, It gives a wide perspective on "pop" music of the final 60's, and how the industry was affecting and using this kind of music, and how the "musical industry" was being created. It also has various performances of fundamental artists, such as Cream, The Beatles, Frank Zappa, etc. For that much, I think I deserve a subtitle file for this =] Thank you.
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