| Tech Note | Date - 1968 (rebroadcast 5 June 2004)
Title - All My Loving
Label - Psychedelic Closet
Camera Angle - n/a
Lineage - BBC4 rebroadcast -> DVD
Audio Rating - Ex
Picture Rating - Ex
Review - The original TV broadcast was in black & white - but it was
later rebroadcast in color several times. It's got music by Jimi
Hendrix, Cream, The Beatles, The Animals, and Pink Floyd (of course). Frank
Zappa speaks his mind as does Paul McCartney. The film is "about" pop
music. Remember while you watch it that it is directed towards an
audience in 1968. There is a huge number of Hans Keller types who bash pop
music and attempt to apply all kinds of completely ludicrous logic &
arguments - attempting to explain that it's .. you know ... terribly
loud. When I first saw it, I kept asking myself, "What were they
thinking ?" It would have been easy to formulate half-way reasonable
arguments against pop music if they'd only tried a little harder.. As it is,
the critics come off looking very silly. But, of course, some of the
pop icons did little to help their cause ... Jimi Hendrix, especially,
probably shouldn't have agreed to talk with the camera crew...
Intermixed with the music, from time to time, is combat footage from
the Vietnam War. Some of it is extremely graphic and absolutely should
NOT be seen by children or generally by those of a delicate nature. |
