It’s a worthy overview on the subject, complete with hundreds of references to the key benchmarks of rock history, like the Day the Music Died, the arrival of The Beatles, Altamont, Woodstock, and rock nests like Laurel Canyon and Seattle.īut what exactly is the subject of the book? Much overlooked history can be found here even for the Generation X crowd, as he dives into cultural changes and the rise and impact of rock music in America and the UK. Goodman devotes the first 33 pages to describe 70 years of rock ‘n’ roll at the movies, surely a Herculean effort. And interviews with Cameron Crowe, Jim Jarmusch, Penelope Spheeris, Taylor Hackford, and John Waters shed some light on how filmmakers were influenced by rock and rock movies.
So along with Purple Rain, American Graffiti, This is Spinal Tap, The Buddy Holly Story, That Thing You Do!, Inside Llewyn Davis, 8 Mile, Straight Outta Compton, Quadrophenia, and Tommy, look for discussions of A Hard Day’s Night, Dont Look Back (blame the lack of apostrophe on the film creator), Woodstock, The TAMI Show, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, and Echo in the Canyon. Featured aren’t just typical “movies”–this is the TCM library’s biggest foray into documentaries. Written by former Rolling Stone magazine editor Fred Goodman, by design it aims to blend crowd pleasers and buried treasure, and is not intended to be definitive–so don’t get your hackles up when you find your favorites didn’t make the cut. Today TCM and Running Press are releasing TCM’s Rock on Film (available here at Amazon). Diehard rock ‘n’ roll aficionados are the targets of the next dive into a select segment of genredom at the movies. TCM’s film reference library of books has looked at the best sci-fi and horror movies, dynamic actresses, Christmas movies, summer hits, noir and war movies, and famous stunts, and its books have argued for 100 movies as the best of them all.
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