The Joshua Tree was the fastest and highest selling album of 1987, representing a life affirming rebuttal of the synthesizer pop of the preceding years. Rock’s DNA of blues, folk, gospel and country were he building blocks of the album, fashioned lyrically and acoustically for the 80’s. U2 and their producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois approached the recording of the album as an experiment, using it as an opportunity for each of them to explore their own ideas, musical political and personal. This program story tells the story of that creative collision.
This film tells the unusual story that lies behind the making of Elvis Presley's first album for RCA Records, in 1956, and his meteoric rise to Superstardom.
In Memphis, Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records, gives the inside story of those groundbreaking days when he auditioned, produced and befr...
“Lost Songs – The Basement Tapes Continued” is a film by director Sam Jones that accompanies the album “Lost On The River”. The project focuses on sixteen sets of lyrics that were written by Bob Dylan during the legendary “The Basement Tapes” sessions in 1967 but only recently rediscovered. Under...
January 1961: a 19 year-old Bob Dylan left his home state of Minnesota and headed for the Folk Mecca that was Greenwich Village New York City - the centre of the Folk Revival.
By the time of Dylan’s arrival, the resurgence in traditional American roots’ music had been gathering pace with focus on...
