This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock'n'roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950s. Freed was a source of great controversy: criticized by conservatives for corrupting youth with the "devil's music"; hated by racists for promoting African American music for white consumption; persecuted by law enforcement officials and finally brought down by the "payola" scandals.
The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant f...
In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to...
One of the dominating figures in Elvis Presley's life was his manager, who was known as the "Colonel...
In the mid-1990s reports emerged that Prince had fallen into dispute with his record company. Having...
The remarkable story of the legendary Motown Records is told through exclusive interviews with the l...
An improvised comedy, shot over five days by Shane Meadows, devised with and starring Paddy Considin...
An Honest and hilarious look at the music industry through the eyes of an all girl rock band.
The record label Death Row Records has, since its creation in 1993, been synonymous with the America...
Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF ...
A 17-year-old boy becomes friends with Billy Magic, the radio DJ he idolizes, and eventually slips i...
She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starrin...
A successful music producer quits the industry and exiles himself in upstate New York, but the solit...
An aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and...
Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it i...
Country singer Maury Dann lives life in the fast lane, counting on his rakish charm and raw talent t...
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious ...
Shot around the breathtaking coastline of B.C.'s Howe Sound, Whale Music is the triumphant adaptatio...
An aspiring musician is released from prison to find that a song he had written while locked up has ...
Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance b...
Adrian Edmondson narrates a documentary chronicling the story of Stiff Records, a tiny independent t...