What better time for a mockumentary than April Fools Day? The history of music industry mockery is long and storied, but Graham, Sarah and Mark went for a recent example – Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, a note-perfect spoof of the early 2010s style of pop-promo documentary. A flop on […]
Ringo Starr
That’ll be the Day (W/David Essex) – Pop Screen Episode 8
The title is Buddy Holly, the star is David Essex, and the mood is pure Edward Heath. Claude Whatham’s 1973 coming-of-age film might be set in the 1950s but it’s really an artefact of Britain’s long post-60s comedown, bleak, pessimistic and extremely brown. Remarkably, this tale of a wannabe rock […]
Keyframe 123 – A Natural Born Lever-Puller
Yellow Submarine
It was fifty years ago today… On Sunday 8th July, cinemas up and down the land screened the Beatles animated musical fantasy Yellow Submarine to mark the 50th anniversary of its release in July, 1968. Remastered and restored for the celebration (for the first time since the thirtieth anniversary in 1998) […]