The second pandemic year of 2021 featured a wide variety of fantastic music documentaries. Some gave us better understandings of artists we've known for a long time, while others re-contextualized great performances in a new light. Here's the 20 best of the year.
'Gimme Some Truth. The Ultimate Mixes' is a new box set that will represent a retrospective of John Lennon’s solo career, featuring 36 tracks fully remastered from scratch.
'Walk Through British Art', the permanent exhibition at London’s Tate Britain, is also a walk through British music. From Elizabeth I to Stephen Lawrence, adding music allowed me to connect with artworks that may have otherwise felt distant. Music pours silently from the paintings in this collection, and I found reuniting these different forms of artistic expression to be a thrilling experience.
The EMI TG12345 Mk I console was installed at Abbey Road Studios in 1968 and used to record the final studio album from The Beatles.
'Underexposed!: The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made', by Joshua Hull, is a fun, engaging read that takes a look at a long list of movies that for whatever reason never saw the light of day. An intriguing collection of "what-ifs."
Three special edition reissues in particular, from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Gene Clark, deserve special notice.
'Man On The Run' will serve as the definitive document of Paul’s emergence from the dissolution of the world’s biggest band and his triumphant creation of a second decade of musical milestones.
Titled simply 'The 7" Singles,' the set will be released on December 2, 2022, and will be limited to 3,000 copies.
The amount of good films about rock and its culture is quite vast, but here's a list of some essential ones concentrating ‘mostly’ on the music first and foremost.
The release is set for late in 2023 and will appear on the new Dolly Parton album 'Rockstar.'
The long-lost track was found 50 years after its recording in the composer's attic. It featured Ustad Aashish Khan as the lead singer, George Harrison on guitar, and Ringo Starr on the drums.
Paul McCartney is preparing an animated feature film, which will be an adaptation of his children's book 'High in the Clouds.'
David Chandler (a music enthusiast) discovered a series of 8mm film reels that includes a 92-second live performance of The Beatles on 'Top of The Pops'. Now, after digitally remastering the footage and enhancing its sound, Kaleidoscope is preparing to show the recovered show.
Paul McCartney confirmed that The Beatles will release one “last” song later this year, which was recently finished with the help of artificial intelligence.
Bassist Bill Wyman left The Rolling Stones some thirty years ago, but now he's back for their tribute album to the late Charlie Watts.
Using artificial intelligence the team has analyzed 80,000 chords in 745 songs that were listed in the US Billboard’s "Hot 100" chart between 1958 and 1991 to try to define the 'perfect pop' song.
Mary McCartney, Paul McCartney’s daughter, will be directing, and the title will be 'If These Walls Could Sing.'
Adding to the already extensive Beatles library, 'All You Need Is Love' is comprised of intimate unpublished interviews with the band, family, and friends.
This copy of the (in)famous Beatles' ‘butcher’ album just sold as part of a wider sale of their merchandise for some 180,000 British pounds or $230,000.
This year's Music Icons auction will feature Paul McCartney's handwritten lyrics to "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," Prince's 'Blue Cloud' guitar, Jim Morrison's 'Paris Journal', and much more.
The auction was held online-only due to the escalating Coronavirus pandemic but that didn't stop it from fetching some incredible sums of money for the 250 Beatles items on offer.
The tape, released by renowned Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn, completely changes the long held narrative that John Lennon wanted to break the band up post-'Abbey Road.'
The focus of McCartney's new book will be on 1964 when The Beatles broke in the U.S., and is comprised of photos he personally took on his 35mm camera.
A rare edition of The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, found in a London charity shop was recently auctioned off for a hefty price.