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Various Artists- THE BEATLES AND WORLD WAR II- DVD & 2CD- 2016- Gonzo Multimedia/Isolde Films- 5060230867212- 500 grn
THE BEATLES AND WORLD WAR II (aka All This And World War II) is a 1976 musical documentary directed by Susan Winslow. It juxtaposes Beatles songs covered by a variety of musicians with World War II newsreel footage and 20th Century Fox films. The film was researched by Tony Palmer who had previously released All My Loving, a history of 1960s music (1968), and the 17-part rock history documentary All You Need Is Love: The Story Of Popular Music. He remade the film in 2016 as THE BEATLES AND WORLD WAR II. A version of this film, entitled THE BEATLES AND WORLD WAR II, was released as a DVD plus two-CD set by Gonzo Multimedia in 2016. This is a revised edition by original director Tony Palmer, using different footage and a different soundtrack. Take a group of some of the most famous solo artists of the 70s and get them to sing cover versions of some of the most famous Beatles songs ever written, add a considerable dollop of documentary footage of the Second World War telling the story of that epic. And what do you have? THE BEATLES AND WORLD WAR II! Sound crazy? But enormously entertaining, and occasionally quite chilling. Unique blend of music and film like no other and of that much we can be absolutely certain. If the film itself is quite odd, most notoriously, it featured Nazi soldiers being run in reverse as "Get Back" played on the soundtrack, the soundtrack itself isn't particularly strange or compelling. This is a Brit-centric soundtrack, it was a British production after all, so it shouldn't be a surprise that it's heavy on British prog rockers and pop songwriters with an arty bent: Peter Gabriel, Bryan Ferry, Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne, Elton John, David Essex and Leo Sayer are all here, as are Ambrosia who may not be British but fit in well with that contingent. Then, there are mainstream superstars and middle-of-the-road artists like The Bee Gees, Rod Stewart, Helen Reddy, Frankie Laine, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons (separately, mind you), the forgotten Lynsey De Paul, Henry Gross, with The Brothers Johnson and Tina Turner added for some diversity. But the fact of it is, it doesn't really matter who is singing here. It all sounds roughly the same thanks to The London Symphony Orchestra, who gives every song here altogether too much pomp and circumstance. That means that anybody enticed by the prospect of Peter Gabriel reinventing "Strawberry Fields Forever" or Roy Wood running wild on "Lovely Rita" will be disappointed by the perfectly fine versions here because they are, at the core, The London Symphony Orchestra's interpretations of these songs. Gabriel and Wood are merely invited guests. That's the case throughout THE BEATLES AND WORLD WAR II album. With the exception of Elton John's "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", which existed prior to this soundtrack, and Rod Stewart's "Get Back", the only cut here that features electric guitars playing loudly. The rest all mushes together in a hazy murk of pompous strings and blaring brass. As a reinterpretation of The Beatles, it's a bit muddy, but as a curio, it certainly evokes its time. And almost too well, as a matter of fact, since once it's done it's hard not to see exactly why punk rock happened.
Comes In A Standard Plastic DVD Case With Three Transparent Trays And Includes 12-Page Booklet.
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