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This film tells, in Carole’s own words, of her family and her upbringing in Brooklyn, and the subsequent success that she had as half of husband and wife songwriting team Goffin & King for Aldon Music on Broadway.
It was during this era in the early sixties that they created a string of pop hits such as ‘Take Good Care of My Baby’ for Bobby Vee, ‘The ...
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons may be the most widely heard piece of classical music ever composed. As the composer Max Richter suggests, “The piece is part of the musical landscape, and a part of my daily life. I hear it in supermarkets, and it’s always turning up in TV ads.” He has approached his “Vivaldi Recomposed”-project as an admirer ...
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 9 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 ...
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. (more…)
All I Want is a visual portrait of an artist and an exploration of his art form, a film which will explore the mindset and outlook of this mercurial talent, the composer of some of the most sophisticated pop music of the last thirty years, writer of lyrics which sit on a page without musical accompaniment as fully formed poetry. But beyond the talent is ...