All My Loving

What I liked most about this film were the interviews, all of them from 1968(7?) The lengthier interviews are with Paul McCartney, Frank Zappa,Anthony Burgess,Eric Burdon and Donovan. Shorter interviews appear with Ringo Starr, Pete Townshend,Jimi Hendrix,George Martin,George Harrison's mum and Manfred Mann. Two gentlemen from the business end of the pop music business are Eddie Rogers, a Tin Pan Alley producer and jingle executive Jim West. All of these interviews whether they are of the longer or shorter variety are all very interesting. The musical highlights portion of the film feature Pete of The Who pummeling his guitar onto the stage in some club in Iowa and Eric Burdon leading his new Animals through a song called Good Times. There are portions of Hendrix on stage and ever so frustratingly brief glimpses of The Beatles in the recording studio(that would be Abbey Road). Donovan is filmed singing and playing guitar and Pink Floyd are filmed bathed in a red spotlight as they perform Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun. Cream conclude the film with We're Going Wrong which I suppose is a statement that the filmmaker wanted to make to justify the various scenes of war and violence scattered throughout the film. The disc also contains an excellent interview with the present day film-maker Tony Palmer                                        10/30/07