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"Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, Rick Hall brought black and white together to create music for the generations. He is responsible for creating the 'Muscle Shoals sound' and the Swampers, the house band at FAME Studios that eventually left to start its own successful studio known as Muscle...
2) Be cool
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Chili Palmer offers to help the widow of a slain friend run her music business. But his efforts only get him into trouble with bodyguards, rap-mogul producers, thugs, managers, and the Russian mafia.
3) Just Friends
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
A hotshot record producer gets another chance to woo his high school crush who looked on him as "just a friend", but first he must fend off rival suitors and ditzy divas.
Publisher
Rhino Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Follows the career of Atlantic Records co-founder, Ahmet Ertegun, and examines Atlantic Records' impact on the evolution of popular music while offering an insider's look at the recording industry from its infancy to today. Features rare clips, performances, and studios sessions of Atlantic recording artists.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Harvard graduate Sam and his fiancée, Alex, move into Sam's mother's house in upscale Laurel Canyon, thinking that she won't be there. She still is, however, and is supposedly finishing up a record that she's producing for her boyfriend's band. But Sam's mom seems more interested in smoking pot and drinking than actually working, though.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
An enthralling celebration of Queen, their music, and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury, who defied stereotypes and convention to become one of history's most beloved entertainers. Following Queen's meteoric rise, their revolutionary sound and Freddie's solo career, the film also chronicles the band's reunion, and one of the greatest performances in rock history.
7) Phil Spector
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Al Pacino and Helen Mirren star in this production written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning and Oscar-nominated playwrite David Mamet. An exploration of the client-attorney relationship between legendary music producer Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden, who represented Spector during his first trial for murder.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
Grammy-nominated film that chronicles the life and career of Arif Mardin, the man who produced more than 50 gold and platinum records and won twelve Grammys. Featuring interviews and/or studio footage with Willie Nelson, Carly Simon, Jewel, Daryl Hall, Phil Collins, Norah Jones and many others. The Greatest Ears in Town is one of the most insightful, inspirational and enjoyable documentaries about how hits are created.
11) Begin again
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
British songwriter Gretta is adrift in Manhattan after getting dumped by her philandering rock star boyfriend. While playing at an open mic night at a local bar, she is discovered by struggling music producer Dan. Sensing her songwriting potential, Dan pushes Gretta to sign with him and record an ambitious outdoors album all across the city.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Elle dreams of becoming a singer-songwriter, but her tragic past keeps her from pursuing her talent. While working at her uncle's small independent record label, she meets famous pop singer Ty Parker, whose passion for Elle's music makes her believe in second chances.
13) Music: Binge box
Publisher
Binge Box
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Titles included: Rocketman; Bohemian Rhapsody; Yesterday; and A Star is Born.
15) Cadillac Records
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Chess Records is located on the south side of Chicago. In 1947, it begins recording blues music with Muddy Waters and Little Walter. This eventually gives birth to rock and roll in 1955 with Chuck Berry. Record producer Leonard Chess has an ear for this different type of music and believes he can cash in by signing up new talent such as songwriters Willie Dixon and Etta James.
Publisher
Binge Box
Language
English
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Description
Enjoy 6 popular movies about music biopics.
Bohemian rhapsody: The story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985).
The Doors: The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.
Ray: The...
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