It all started with a chance encounter with John Lennon in New York in the early Seventies. “Doing anything useful?” he said with his customary directness. Over a “delicious” lunch of brown rice, the plot was hatched. “There will be no escape,” he warned me, as we mapped out one of the most foolhardy ideas devised by man – nothing less than the entire history and development of popular music. “It’s what’s needed,” he kept telling me. “Something that pieces together all the various elements that have gone into making rock’n’roll: country, jazz, blues, ragtime, music hall, soul – it’s easy!”
Tony Palmer’s brave and legendary series.
Buy the DVD box set here.
Also check out All My Loving, his earlier seminal documentary.
Go and see it at the BFI in May.
Read more info in a fantastic article in Times Online.
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