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The filmed account of a large Canadian rock festival train tour boasting major acts like Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead and The Band.

A documentary series on several of the key albums in music history.

Fourteen year old hypochondriac Peter Payne negotiates the ups and downs of adolescence including acne, sex, relationships, diet, depression, drugs and generally surviving life.

Internationally known director Carla Garapedian follows the rock band System of a Down as they tour Europe and the US pointing out the horrors of modern genocide that began in Armenia in 1915 up though Darfur today.

After twenty years in the pop business, this is a celebration of the lives, work, and achievements of the Pet Shop Boys. Following Neil's education and upbringing in Newcastle, and Chris's in Blackpool, the two head separately to London where they meet and begin writing, ending up with their classic "West End Girls". Over two decades and ?? albums, they go from strength to strength, revealing their work methods and abetted by comments from musicians Robbie Williams, Jake Shears ("Scissor Sisters"), Brandon Flowers ("The Killers"), amongst others. Their musical variations are discussed including the musical "Closer to Heaven" and writing a new score to accompany Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin", performed live in London's Trafalgar Square. A panoramic portrait. Available as a 48-min TV documentary and a 140-minute DVD.

Neil Sedaka is one of the most successful American singer-songwriters of the last century. A classically trained musician, he won a scholarship to the Julliard School at the age of nine and four years later he embarked on a writing career that would see him create some of the most perfect pop songs of all time. Throughout his career he wrote, recorded and sang a number of instantly recognisable and memorable tunes, as well as delivering a string of hits as a songwriter for other artists. This documentary portrait film tells the story of Neil Sedaka's life and career, in which he had two distinct periods of success. Between 1958 and 1963 he sold over 25 million records, but then his career nose-dived after the Beatles and the British Invasion hit the USA. Leaving his homeland, he found success in the UK in the early 1970s and relaunched his career before returning to the US and achieving new stardom with songs like Solitaire and Laughter in the Rain. Neil gives great insight into how he created catchy classics like Calendar Girl, (Is This the Way to) Amarillo, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen and Stupid Cupid, amongst many others.

Barry White gave the world some of its most joyous music, and that voice mesmerised women everywhere, but his death was isolated and painful. Culminating in his sad death as remembered by one of his sons and one of his daughters, the film looks at Barry's childhood, his time in prison, and his decision to go into music and thereby change his life. From producer/composer to his decision to sing his own material, from his formation of Love Unlimited (featuring his wife, who contributes along with her sister - also in the group), the film examines the life in detail until his untimely end. The film is narrated "from the grave" by Barry himself.

A beautiful film following Natasha Khan (aka Bat For Lashes) across America as she makes her second album, the Mercury Award nominated 'Two Suns'.

A light-hearted look at 30 years of "Page 3" girls, starting with the very first to the household names like Linda Lussardi and Samantha Fox. Taking the story up to the present, young inexperienced models describe their ambitions in a different world, as they do a photo shoot for the newspaper. Journalists, editors and commentators talk of the impact Page 3 has had.

The reputations of few artists from the heyday of British folk-rock remain intact. There is, however, one figure whose body of work has come to stand for a particularly single-minded form of integrity. That man is Roy Harper. In Roy Harper: Man & Myth, the singer songwriter tells his story on screen for the first time. Although he has always been a true outsider, now, at 72, Harper is coming close to becoming a beloved British institution. His songs are longer and more complex than his contemporaries', He has released in excess of 30 albums but he never won the friendship of record companies, who simply did not know what to do with him. In spite of that, other musicians love him, from Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Kate Bush to Joanna Newsom and Johnny Marr who describes his work as "intense and beautiful". This profile tells the story of this acquired taste of a musician from childhood to the present day, as Roy records new material for the first time in more than a decade.

Primal Scream's seminal album "Screamadelica" defined a generation. It's mix of rock, dance, dub, gospel and more caught the zeitgeist of the early nineties to perfection and it went on to win the inaugural Mercury Music Prize in 1992 and consistently be named as "Best Album Of The Nineties" and appear in numerous "All Time Best Albums" lists. This show, filmed on November 26th 2010 at London's Olympia, was the first time that Primal Scream had performed the whole album live and it became one of the "must see" gigs of the year. The band was accompanied by a brass section and a gospel choir with back projections specially created for the event. The result was a stunning musical and visual triumph and proved, if it needed to be, that Screamadelica is one of the finest albums ever made and that Primal Scream are one of the truly great live bands.

A staged performance of Max Richter's recomposition of Vivaldi's masterpiece "The Four Seasons" with Max Richter, Daniel Hope (violin) and the orchestra L'Arte Del Mondo. Richter's score is performed by virtuoso violinist Daniel Hope and the orchestra "L'Arte Del Mondo", and shot at the legendary Funkhaus Berlin Nalepastraße (the former broadcast centre of East Germany).

After an accident left Melody Gardot immobile, a doctor suggested music therapy. Now she has two acclaimed albums, and is performing at the London Jazz Festival.

Ray Davies, the cornerstone of the Kinks, is one of his country's greatest songwriters. Over four decades he has provided a feast for all comers, regardless of social station, from the simple urgency of 'You Really Got Me' to the detached melancholy of "Come Dancing' .

Terry Wiles was first featured in 1979 in On Giant's Shoulders (1979) and told the story of his early years. A victim of Thalidomide, he was adopted and with his new family emigrated to New Zealand. This documentary tells of the fight Terry, now in his 30s, and his wife have had since they married. Ostracised by their families and recipients of hate mail, they have been married for eight years.

Documentary telling, in her own words, the story of Carole King's upbringing in Brooklyn and the subsequent success that she had as half of husband-and-wife songwriting team Goffin and King for Aldon Music on Broadway.

Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, the men behind Squeeze have been called everything from 'the new Lennon and McCartney' to the 'Godfathers of Brit Pop'. Now thirty five years after their first record release, Squeeze Take Me I'm Yours reappraises the song-writing genius of Difford and Tilbrook, and shows why Squeeze hold a special place in British Popular music. 'Take Me I'm Yours' is the story of Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, two working class kids from South East London, who in 1974 formed 'Squeeze', with the dream of one day appearing on Top of The Pops. In 1978 they achieved that dream when the single Take Me I'm Yours, gave the band the first of a string of top twenty hits. The period 1978-1982 saw the group release a run of classic singles, timeless gems such as, Cool For Cats, Up the Junction, Labelled with Love, Tempted and Pulling Mussels from a Shell to name but a few. Although the line up of Squeeze would go through various changes of personal (another founder member Jools Holland would leave during 1980 and then later re-join the group in 85) it is Difford and Tilbrook's songs that have remained the constant throughout the lifetime of the band. Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook tell us the how the came to write and record many of their greatest songs. Although their relationship at times has often been tenuous at best, the mutual admiration for each other's talent has produced some of the best songs of the past forty years.

A biographical look at Carla Bruni (1967- ) from a privileged childhood surrounded by music, to a modeling career, success as a singer and songwriter, and, since 2008, France's First Lady, the wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy. The structure us loosely chronological, mixing contemporary interviews (with Bruni, her mother and sister, her friends and her manager) with footage of her singing. A few news clips show her in her public role. The emphasis is on her writing of music and lyrics and on her singing style. She looks back with gratitude at her luck, and she looks ahead to performing live again and to being an old woman singing the blues.

This revealing, feature-length film follows the dramatic story of Rufus Wainwright's debut opera, Prima Donna, from his childhood obsession with opera to the final triumphant staging of Prima Donna at the Manchester International Festival.

This unique film explores the story of the lyric-driven French chanson and looks at some of the greatest artists and examples of the form.

Madeleine tells her story in her own words in the included exclusive documentary, featuring footage and interviews with her in Paris and New York. This intimate portrait also features interviews with Madeleine's mother, long time producer Larry Klein, the man who found her Yves Beauvais, co-writer David Batteau, voice coach Joan Lader, musician and friend Danny Fitzgerald and Wall Street Journal writer Christopher J Farley. These interviews, archive footage and live performances build a insight into an artist in full flow and at the height of her powers.