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5) The Filth and the Fury- The Sex Pistols were kids and now they're all men. Except for Sid Vicious who died of a drug overdose. At one point in the movie Johnny Rotten breaks down and crys thinking about him. The best revolutions may stand forever; the ones who have fought them will vanish and die. The fate of great revolutionaries and punk's founding fire.
6) Nirvana- Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!- Kurt is skinny and frail. A delicate, likable hero. He's eulogized now beyond belief, but like many overhyped bands theres a beautiful core that they built the hype on. And their core is a gentle heart; Kurt's gentle heart, in love with rock and roll. And though bitter and smart, he's just a kid; fragile and young. He who that shotgun picked up wouldn't have hurt a living soul.
7)Chuck Berry- Hail Hail Rock n' Roll- A genuine genius, one of the best writers to ever have picked up a pen. A beautiful voice, and a better guitar player there's never been. You don't have to put down Elvis to raise up Chuck; Elvis was great though he never wrote a line, and Chuck was great and wrote almost all of them. It's rare you find a movie that can do honor to a talent this big; but thanks to great directing, Keith Richards and Bruce Springsteen, Bo Diddley and Little Richard, that's what this movie is. Between clips of Chuck and others talking about him, the movie is ostensibly about Keith Richards getting together a concert in Chuck's honor, rehearsing it, and then finally its performance. The concert isn't that good but that's really not the main focus; Chuck Berry is. A difficult, extremely charming, loose canon who's a genius; with his cards and his thoughts kept in tight close to him. He who went to the top of the mountain was named Moses, he who came back with a guitar was a brown eyed handsome man.
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