Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop (2003)
Directed by John Dower
Genres - Music |
Sub-Genres - Biography, Music History, Social History |
Run Time - 82 min. |
Countries - United Kingdom |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Ryan Shriver
Documentarian John Dower turns his attention toward the 1990s British musical movement dubbed Brit-pop in his 2003 film, Live Forever. Going back to an early 1990 concert by the now-defunct band the Stone Roses, Dower traces the roots of the Brit-pop movement as originating from Britain's simultaneously discontented and disenfranchised youth, a residual outcome of the Conservative Party's decade-long stranglehold on Britain's political and cultural identity. As Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher departed from her office, the 1990 Roses concert seemed to indicate a new musical movement would soon follow. Within a couple of years, the rock groups Blur and Oasis would take the lead in the new anti-establishment, almost anti-American, style of music that briefly seemed to revitalize Britain's sense of musical identity. Included in Dower's film are numerous interviews with British rockers Damon Albarn, Noel Gallagher, and Liam Gallagher.
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band [music group], British, music-club, music-scene, national-identity, pop-rock, roots [origins]