March 30, 2024

DVD 1: The Sex Pistols ~ The Filth & the Fury

 ~         
DVD front cover - rockumentary
photo by Styrous®
 
 
On Mar 30, 1976, the Sex Pistols played their first show at The 100 Club In London. And, as they say, the rest is history! 
 
In 2000 Julien Temple directed a British rockumentary film entitled, The Filth & the Fury. It follows the story of punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols and their humble beginnings from Shepherd's Bush in London, England, to their fall at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California. It follows the  chaotic, exciting, berserk and enormously influential brief history of the band. It is considered a continuation of Temple's first documentary centered on the band, titled The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, but acts as an opportunity for the surviving members of the group to tell their side of the story.            
 
 
 
DVD back cover - rockumentary
photo by Styrous®
 
              
The title of the film is a reference to a headline that appeared in the British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror on December 2, 1976, after an interview on the ITV Today presented by Bill Grundy. The title of The Mirror article was itself inspired by the William Faulkner novel, The Sound and the Fury which was in turn taken from a line in Macbeth by William Shakespeare.         
        




In 1990, Glenn Matlock wrote a book entitled, I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol which documented the life of the band from his perspective.       






        
         
         
            
Tracklist:
       
1 - The Filth And The Fury - 1:43:00               
       
Companies, etc.
       
    Copyright © – Sex Pistols Residuals
    Copyright © – Fine Line Features
    Copyright © – New Line Home Video
       
Credits:
       
    Executive-Producer – Eric Gardner (3), Jonathan Weisgal
    Film Director – Julien Temple
    Film Editor – Niven Howie
    Film Producer – Amanda Temple, Anita Camarata
    Performer – Glen Matlock, Paul Cook, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones (2)
       
Notes:
       
Widescreen version.
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Rated R
       
Barcode and Other Identifiers
        
    Barcode: 794043508622

Sex Pistols – The Filth And The Fury
Label:    New Line Home Video – N5086
Format:    DVD, DVD-Video, NTSC, Enhanced
Country: US
Released: 2000
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk
         
 
 
 
Viewfinder links:               
William Faulkner        
Sex Pistols         
Julien Temple       
        
Net links:        
        
Roger Ebert ~ The Filth and the Fury review         
Tommy Gerard ~ The Filth And The Fury: A Sex Pistols Film        
Our Town NY ~ The Filth and The Fury The Filth and ...         
Sex Pistols website ~ The Filth & the Fury         
uDiscover Music ~ How Sex Pistols Sparked A Media Outrage        
Variety ~ The Filth and the Fury         
        
YouTube links:        
        
The Filth And The Fury (1hr, 43 mins.)         
Sex Pistols: The Grundy Show incident        
         
         
         
         
         
         
        
        
         
         
         
         
         
         
Styrous® ~ Saturday, March 30, 2024                 
         
 
 
 
 
 
 
Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

William Faulkner articles/mentions

 ~   
        
     
     
     
mentions       
Sexpistols ~ The Filth and the Fury     
     
     
     
     
     
photographer unknown



        
       
       
       
        
       

















Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , ,

Julien Temple articles/mentions

 ~        
          
      
     
mentions:     
Sex Pistols     
     
     
     
     
     
date & photographer unknown
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , ,

March 27, 2024

20,000 vinyl LPs 359: Ferde Grofé ~ Rocketship X-M

 ~  
vinyl LP front cover 
 cover photo by 
photo of album cover by Styrous®


Today is the birthday of American composer, arranger, pianist and instrumentalist, Ferde Grofé, who was born on March 27, in New York City in 1892 to German immigrants. He is best known for his 1931 five-movement symphonic poem, Grand Canyon Suite, and for orchestrating Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin for its 1924 premiere.         

To honor him, I chose his score for the rarely seen film, Rocketship X-M, because I remember this as the first Sci-Fi film I ever saw when I was not yet in my teens. I was completely blown away by it.   
 
  


Desperate to see more films of this type, I eagerly flew to the theater the following year to see The Man from Planet X and was heartbroken to find it a cheesy "B" movie whose cheesiness was only surpassed in 1957 by Plan Nine from Outer Space by Ed Wood. My faith in Sci-Fi films was restored by films such as When Worlds Collide, The War of the Worlds, Destination Moon, The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Thing from Another World.               

The score by Grofé included a theremin played by Dr. Samuel Hoffman who played the instrument in the orchestral score of the Alfred Hitchcock 1945 film Spellbound.     
 




 
 
 
Rocketship X-M (a.k.a. Expedition Moon and originally Rocketship Expedition Moon) is a 1950 American black-and-white science fiction film from Lippert Pictures, the first outer space adventure of the post-World War II era. The film was produced and directed by Kurt Neumann and stars Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr., Hugh O'Brian, and Morris Ankrum. The film is in black-and-white except when they are on the planet Mars when the film is tinted red, very red. I thought that was totally cool.   
   


 
 
 
Hugh O'Brian as Harry Chamberlain 
 
 
 
 
 
Lloyd Bridges as Col. Floyd Graham (Pilot)
 
 
 
 
 
Osa Massen as Dr. Lisa Van Horn
 
 
 
 
 Noah Beery Jr. as Maj. William Corrigan  
 
 
 
There is fascinating information on producers Robert L. Lippert and Murray Lernet on the Beware the Blog blog (link below) as well as a plethora of information on the film on several blogs on the Net (links below).       
 
 
 
vinyl LP back cover with film stills
photo of album cover by Styrous®
 
         
Rocketship X-M tells the story of a Moon expedition gone awry. Through a series of unforeseen events, the expedition's crew find themselves on the red planet, Mars. During their time on the planet they go on to discover the remnants of a Martian civilization destroyed long ago by atomic war and now reverted to barbarism.           
    
 

























Tracklist:
       
Side 1:
        
A1 - Main Title
A2 - Countdown; Launch; Into Orbit
A3 - Floating Free
A4 - Interrupted Mission
A5 - Romance In Space (Lisa's Theme)
A6 - Approaching Mars
A7 - Theremin Solo
       
Side 2:
       
B1 - Exploring The Red Planet
B2 - The Martian Mutants
B3 - Homeward Bound
B4 - None Came Back
B5 - End Title
       
Credits:
       
    Composed By – Ferde Grofé
    Orchestrated By – Albert Glasser
    Theremin – Dr. Samuel Hoffman*
       
Notes:
       
Original pressing with orange labels and matrix numbers stamped in the runout grooves. This edition lists Starlog's New York address on the back cover.
       
Barcode and Other Identifiers
 
    Matrix / Runout: S R 1000 A-1A
    Barcode: S R 1000 B-1A
 
Ferde Grofé – Rocketship X-M (The Original Soundtrack Score)
Label:    Starlog Records – SR - 1000
Format:    Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1977
Genre: Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack, Score        

         
Viewfinder links:        
        
Ferde Grofé        
Dr. Samuel Hoffman       
Hugh O'Brian        
         
        
Net links:        
Beware the Blog ~ Anatomy of a Cult Science Fiction Classic  
KQEK ~ CD: Rocketship X-M (1950) review        
Monster Movie Music ~ Ferde Grofé Sr. - "Walkin Around On Mars" (1950)      
Monstrous Movie Music ~ Rocketship X-M        
Scifist ~ Rocketship X-M        
         
        
        
YouTube links:        
        
Rocketship X-M ~    
        Rocketship X-M (complete film) (1 hr., 17 mins., 38 secs.)      
        Main Theme        
        Suite                 
        
         
        
        
        
Styrous® ~ Wednesday, March 27, 2024       
       
 
 


























Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Samuel Hoffman articles/mentions

 ~        
      
     
     
mentions:     
Ferde Grofé ~ Rocketship X-M      
Miklós Rózsa ~ Spellbound by 10"    
     
     
     
     
     
date & photographer unknown
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , , , ,

Bill Withers articles/mentions

 
 ~        
     
     
     
mentions:     
Cold Blood ~ Thriller!! reel to reel tape     
     
     
     
     
     
     
date & photographer unknown
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , ,

March 23, 2024

John Lennon and Yoko Ono Gibraltar postage stamps

 ~        
John Lennon and Yoko Ono postage stamps - 1969
 
420 - 2021
photo by Styrous®
 
 
Fifty-five years ago, on march 23, 1969, Gibraltar printed but never issued a set of postage stamps that would have commemorated the wedding of John Lennon and Yoko Ono who were married in Gibraltar on March 20, 1969, and spent their honeymoon at the Hilton Amsterdam, campaigning with a week-long Bed-In for Peace against the Vietnam War.     


Bed-In for Peace - March 25, 1969 
photo by Gerry Deiter


On the last day of their Bed-In for Peace, John Lennon wrote his iconic anti-war song song, Give Peace a Chance. Released as a single in July 1969 by the Plastic Ono Band on Apple Records, it is the first solo single issued by Lennon, released while he was still a member of the Beatles, and became an anthem of the American anti-war movement during the 1970s. It peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 on the British singles chart.      
 
A photo exhibition and other events remembering Yoko Ono and John Lennon, The Beatles songwriter who was shot and killed in New York in 1980, are being held this week in Amsterdam to commemorate the events 50 years ago.               
 
In 2020 on the 21st of September, International Peace Day, a film by Yoko Ono was released (link below). What ono has said about the film:    
Dear Friends, In 1969, John and I were so naïve to think that doing the Bed-In would help change the world. Well, it might have. But at the time, we didn't know. It was good that we filmed it, though. The film is powerful now. What we said then could have been said now. In fact, there are things that we said then in the film, which may give some encouragement and inspiration to the activists of today. Good luck to us all. Let's remember WAR IS OVER If We Want It. It's up to us, and nobody else. John would have wanted to say that. love, Yoko Ono Lennon."

 
NYC International Peace Day, 21 September 2020"
        
        
        
        
Viewfinder links:        
        
Gerry Deiter         
        
Net links:        
        
CTV News ~ Photos of Ono & Lennon Bed-in for Peace protest      Gerry Deiter                 
UN ~ International Day of Peace 21 September         
        
YouTube links:        
         
Bed Piece (1969) (complete film) (1 hr, 10 mins., 55 secs.)
        
         
        
         
 
         
        
         
        
Styrous® ~ Sunday, April 18, 2021                 








å

Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , , , , , , , ,
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)