Rent Jeff Beck: A Man for All Seasons (2015)
2h 9min
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- Synopsis:
At the end of 1964, celebrated guitar maestro Eric Clapton left the Yardbirds, a band still searching for their first hit. His replacement was a player of very different capabilities - a technical and sonic pioneer who helped propel the group from their former status as a blues covers act to become one of the most innovative and daring musical collectives working in the UK. This film traces Jeff Beck's music and career throughout the 1960s - his formative influences and early groups, his work with The Yardbirds, his brief, bizarre reinvention by producer Mickie Most as a solo pop star, and the first, radical incarnation of the Jeff Beck Group, during which he played alongside vocalist Rod Stewart and then bass player Ron Wood. Featuring a plethora of rare performance and studio footage, exclusive interviews, contributions from those who worked with and alongside Jeff during this period and a host of other features, all of which combine to make this documentary - the first yet to singularly focus on Becks career - a legitimate tribute and enthralling history of this often underrated musician, writer and performer. Includes new interviews with: Yardbirds first manager, Giorgio Gomelsky; the man who took over from Gomelsky, colourful music biz impresario, Simon Napier Bell; Jeffs fellow Yardbirds, Jim McCarty and Chris Dreja; musical conspirators from the early 70s, Tim Bogert and Max Middleton; the ever shocking Pamela Des Barres (aka Miss Pamela of The GTOs); legendary music press scribes, Charles Shaar Murray and Chris Welch; Beck's official biographer Martin Power and Uncut Magazine editor, Nigel Williamson. - Actors:
- Jeff Beck, Giorgio Gomelsky, Simon Napier Bell, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, Tim Bogert, Max Middleton, Pamela Des Barres, Charles Shaar Murray, Chris Welch, Martin Power, Nigel Williamson, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Mickie Most
- Directors:
- Tom O' Dell
- Aka:
- Jeff Beck: A Man for All Seasons: In The 1960s
- Studio:
- Sexy Intellectual
- Genres:
- Documentary, Music & Musicals, Performing Arts, Special Interest
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