Almost Famous, a love song for rock and rollGil, Baby
He's almost famous [Chorus:] You dream of trading places, I have been changing faces You can not fill these shoes, There is too much too lose. Wake up behind these trenches, You run around defenseless. There is too much too lose, ...
although that’s not why it’s on the list. ‘Grosse Pointe Blank’ features an emphatic mix of rock, ska, punk and New Wave – the kind of stuff you’d expect to hear at a “Class of ’86” reunion, if the DJ was as cool as John Cusack. In addition to two songs from the...
"Only You" had almost gone off the charts in mid-1956 in England, where a few newspapers described it as a "rock 'n' roll ballad." Surprisingly even though it was now four years old, "Trying" had not even been heard in ... Jackson,Carlton - 《Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Ph...
(though Led Zeppelin prevented him from using ‘Stairway to Heaven’) and he uses all of them to great effect. ‘Almost Famous’ should be shown in film schools to illustrate how to use music in a movie – from the spine-tingling anticipation of the fictional Stillwater’s ‘Fever Dog’ ...
the song was redone by Gary Jules specifically for the soundtrack toDonnie Darko. While technically that should disqualify it from this list, I’m going to take things a step further and say that the movie has also laid claim to the original Tears for Fears version. Judge for yourself. Ca...
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Paul was still working on it when they were filming their second movie,Help!, in 1965, as director Richard Lester recalls: “At some time during that period, we had a piano on one of the stages and he was playing this ‘Scrambled Egg’ all the time. It got to the point where I sa...
or a version of himself, as a old man tottering through an unrecognizable Berlin, a Berlin in which the Wall is a bad dream that a dwindling number of its citizens once had. A list of old names in his head, arranged like a code sequence: the Dschungel; Nürnberger Straße; KaDeWe;...
I am from San Francisco, and while not of Asian descent, I am familiar with the cultural difficulties of "East vs West" -- and every time I see this movie, I am impressed with how this is handled. Ok, granted, it's a fluff-and-sparkle R&H songfest, and not one of their best ...